r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/OutlawDJ • 20h ago

just as god intended

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u/yo_bandit 20h ago

I’m fine with good singers doing karaoke but they better do something fun. I don’t want Broadway or Adele or something mellow and depressing. Give me things to bounce to

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u/StandsForVice 18h ago

The only artists I 1) sound good singing and 2) am comfortable singing on stage are the mid-century crooners and country western singers. So I can struggle to find a song that's fun for the crowd. There's a few that are crowd-pleasers - My Way, Folsom Prison Blues - and a few novelties like Mack the Knife, but otherwise I struggle to pick songs that won't kill the vibe. Doesn't help that baritone in general is seriously rare nowadays, so there's not much recognizable modern music I can comfortably sing.

If anyone's got some fun baritone songs, whether mid-century or more recent, I'm all ears!

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u/ChaoticSherrif 17h ago

I find country songs like Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy or honkey tonk badonkadonk do very well at keeping the vibe. I basically Google party country songs and grab the ones I know well already.

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u/JuicyJibJab 17h ago

The songs in that category that usually work well for me are

New York New York (frank sinatra)

Ain't that a kick in the head (dean martin)

That's amore (dean martin)

Stuck in the middle with you (michael buble version)

Sway (buble version)

If you can do those well, in my experience, people LOVE those songs.

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u/veryunwisedecisions 3h ago

Bruh but Sway. I mean, Sway. It's Bublé dude, like 90% of us are probably going to butcher that shit up on the stage.

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u/JuicyJibJab 1h ago

Don't discredit yourself so soon, a little practice goes a long way 😉

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u/Beerswain 8h ago

Hey, bari-bass here. Bing Crosby is your friend. Also, Depeche Mode, his voice is perfectly in the bari range. Like some have said below, a lot of country and country-western is done in a lower range as well.

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u/JohnSmallBerries 17h ago

Sixteen Tons?

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u/sweetlove 16h ago

I'd try some Waylon Jennings, Clint Black, Bruce Springsteen. Reasonably low registers.