Top 10 Karaoke Songs of All Time

I hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl Weekend, as I sure did. Cardinals fans should be proud that their team covered the spread, and Steelers fans can rejoice in the fact that no other team has more Super Bowl Victories. We started off the weekend with a fun neighborhood get together, enjoying stories and jokes while the kids played in the back yard. Wouldn’t you know it, one thing led to another, and it ended up with Karaoke. If there is one thing I hate more than dancing in public, that is singing in public. The whole time my wife, our friends Scott and Teresa, and our new friends Grant and Shannon , were singing songs like “Summer Nights” from Grease, or Shania Twain’s “Man, I feel like a woman” a little light went off in my head, and I knew I had this week’s Top 10 list. Here are my favorite Top 10 Karaoke Songs:

1. Elvira by the Oakridge Boys. You don’t have to sing it all that well, but you should do the “oom papa mow mow” part as low as you can go.

2. Summer Nights- Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta. Great duet that everyone knows, so you get a lot of help from the crowd singing back up, as well as the finale which sounds off key even in the original.

3. Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley. He isn’t known as The King for nothing. Extra points if you do the crooked lip thing and bring your own cape to the performance.

4. My Way by Frank Sinatra. Classic, but you have to be careful not to do a bad job since most Karaoke singers find it offensive to do a poor impersonation of Ol’ Blue Eyes.

5. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It – R.E.M. This is a hard song to sing, and it is even harder to do Karaoke-Style.
If you try to find follow the changing colors on the screen then you are lost. At least there is one part that everyone gets right- it’s the “LEONARD BERNSTEIN. LEONID BREZHNEV, LENNY BRUCE AND LESTER BANGS!” and after that, you are lost again. Great song though.

6. Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette. Classic country, sweet tune, but the version we did was from the Blues Brothers which I think was 100 times more entertaining. Three semi inebriated men singing Stand By Your Man. It just doesn’t get any better than this.

7. Take On Me by A-ha. I have heard that these guys still tour, and the lead singer can still hit that high note at the end. Unbelievable. But hearing it by a complete unknown without any formal training is simply…entertaining. Bonus points if you try it by yourself, although most people in the audience think that they can hit the note as well ( they are wrong, of course).

8. Baby Got Back- Sir Mix-a-Lot. Although it didn’t sell as many copies as Rappers Delight, or even Ice Ice Baby, you can’t resist the sentimental lyrics right out of the gate: “I like big butts and I cannot lie!”

9. Tequila by The Champs. Yes, it is an instrumental song. Made popular in part by Pee Wee Herman from his movie, it is a perfect song for anyone that makes a bet that they can sing a song and have everyone cheer along. Make it a performance piece and do a shot every time someone shouts out “Tequila”.

10. We Are The Champions by Queen. Nothing says “I’m Wasted, Take Me Home” like a group of people singing this song at something other than a sporting event. It is just wrong. Just wrong I say.