> # Kareoke party

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> Posted by Jamie on January 31, 2017 at 11:01:34

> We had a great weekend. It started with a plea for help from a couple of school friends, Will and Red, very early on Saturday morning as we were doing our morning exercise swim. They had volunteered to organise a surprise birthday party for our school friend Ali and his twin sister, Aliya (who does not go to our school) as it was their birthday on the 27th (19 years old !) and they had organised a kareoke party at a local community/sports hall in the town. They had received a phone call to cancel the booking as the hall had been broken into over-night, vandalised and partly set alight. Could we help by hosting the party instead ? We said 'yes, of course' after asking our dads as they swum up and down the pool. It was an easy ask really as there was nothing for us to do as they had already organised food, drink, the kareoke and decorations for the hall.

> Will and Rob and a couple of other friends turned up soon after 8 with a van full of all the stuff they needed to set the pool area up as a party venue. So the six of us spent a couple of hours setting out tables and chairs, a space for drink and food to be put out and then we spent a while contacting all the guests (all our mutual school friends and a few siblings and other friends) to tell them about the change of venue. At lunchtime the guy with the kareoke turned up to set up his equipment and then left again until the evening start. We got him to set his equipment up on Tom's balcony overlooking the pool and his projector facing across the pool so that the videos with the lyrics hit the opposite wall. Easy.

> Every one of our friends knows that if they come to our place for a party there is a 90+% chance that they will end up getting wet, completely soaked, whatever they are wearing at the time, so most come along suitably attired and with a change of clothes.

> The party started off dry with everyone chatting, eating and drinking and then the DJ, Dave, explained how the kareoke was supposed to work. He would select a song and if someone wanted to have a go then they should volunteer, or be volunteered by their mates, and step up onto the small stage he had created below the balcony. At this stage someone, Mike I think, suggested that they stand on the low diving board rather than the stage and that someone act as the audiences 'voice' and push them off into the pool if they were no good. This was enthusiastically applauded and so it was agreed that that would be an option if the singer agreed. You can't force someone can you.

> At school we all get to sing at morning assembly (two hymns per day) but I can't say that anyone of our friends has a particularly good voice, most either mouth the words with little sound or hum along. Some of the girls have good voices. Chris and I are among the mumblers and hummers most of the time. Very embarrassing - wouldn't want to inflict my singing voice on anyone.

> The first peope to have a go at the kareoke were Ali and his sister Aliya who had a go at a BeeGees song and did it really well. Ali celebrated all the applause by jumping into the pool with his sister held in a bear hug as he did so, she didn't seem to mind at all and they stayed in the pool in the shallow end as the next few people had a go at singing. All of them ended up in the pool, Harry's effort was the most dire and he fully deserved being pushed in after just a few bars of tunelessly flat singing.

> After Harry had got his just reward for such appalling singing, Chris decided he'd have a go. He spoke to the DJ to request something and stepped onto the diving board.

> "This may not be the type of song you want, or expect, to hear tonight" Chris said "but it's one I've heard lots of times as it is one of my mum's favourites and she was always playing it as I grew up - she still does sometimes - and I've imagined myself singing it aloud so many time, just never had the courage to do so. OK - let's give it a go."

> So he did, and it was fabulous. I never knew he had such a fantastic voice. Chris has a fairly deep voice in normal conversation but his singing voice is a melodic light tenor and his diction is perfect, every word clear and distinct. Turns out the record his mum likes is by the late Matt Monro, an English singer who died in 1985, someone that Frank Sinatra admired.

> The song was "Born Free" from the 1966 film of the same name about Joy and George Adamson's story of their lioness Elsa and setting her free.

> After his rendition of Born Free, Chris was encouraged to do more and he sang another three or four randomly chosen songs before diving into the pool to allow someone else to have a go.

> By the end of the party everyone had been in the pool at some time and a lot of them had had a go at the kareoke with varying degrees of success. It was generally agreed that Chris was by far the best singer and he was called upon to sing quite a few times. The funniest was him trying to sing Hello by Adele, a good effort but requiring a voice with a rather higher range than Chris could muster. He was asked by lots of people why he had not sung out before but didn't really have a good answer. I think he believed it would be a bit too "showing off" for his liking.

> The party was a great success and as usual seeing everyone getting wet was fun, but the kareoke was the best bit even for those of us who really can't sing, very liberating once you have a go.

> Follow Ups:

> - Re: Karaoke party Ben 14:19:53 2/01/2017 (2)
>   - Re: Karaoke party Chris 13:12:09 2/02/2017 (0)
>   - Re: Karaoke party Jamie 14:49:18 2/01/2017 (0)
> - Re: Kareoke party Chris 19:31:50 1/31/2017 (0)
> - Re: Kareoke party Harry 11:59:12 1/31/2017 (6)
>   - Re: Kareoke party Chris 19:35:11 1/31/2017 (0)
>   - Re: Kareoke party wetchas 14:28:24 1/31/2017 (4)
>     - Re: Kareoke party Chris 19:44:50 1/31/2017 (0)
>     - Re: Kareoke party Jamie 19:16:12 1/31/2017 (2)
>       - Re: Kareoke party wetchas 10:51:58 2/01/2017 (1)
>         - Re: Kareoke party Jamie 12:06:35 2/01/2017 (0)

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