Karaoke Classics Volume 1 of 47

Another Dank Serenade that sings you a verse from someone’s life... Karaoke can be a lot of fun and embarrassment... and in this case, stupid! If you're a fan of oddities, silliness, the bizarre, strange, unusual, obscure, fringe, or just downright weird there will be something here for you. Sit back and embark on a journey into the unknown, be dismayed, confused, frustrated, vajazzled and spellbound all at once on a Lo-Fi ride into the ridiculous! #DANK #OriginalCreatorContent #DankSerenades #OldTV #Karaoke #YTP #Funny #Comedy #DankVideos #SingAlong A new video coming out every week, laboriously edited for you by me from the bizarrest of vintage source material. 'Karaoke' is a term from Japan, which can be decomposed into two single Japanese words - 'kara' and 'oke'. 'Kara' translates as empty, while 'oke' is an abbreviation of 'okesutora', which means orchestra; literally 'kara-oke' refers to 'empty orchestra'. However, as one relates it to the original conception of this Japanese leisure activity, the term 'karaoke' becomes more expressive that it produces the meaning of prerecorded musical accompaniment or designed for amateur singing. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives a precise description from the functional perspective by defining 'karaoke' as 'a device that plays instrumental accompaniments for a selection of songs to which the user sings along'. The modern technical karaoke setup consists of a video monitor for displaying lyrics, wired or wireless microphones connected to a stereo system with voice mixer, and recordings of songs with the vocal track eliminated, which contributes to the very 'kara' of 'karaoke'. Karaoke was first designed for the purpose of entertainment, and the diffusion pattern of this once-novel technology spread from Japanese businessmen who visited karaoke after work for entertainment and relaxation, then crossed the national borders to the countries around Japan. In a sense, karaoke is very forgiving, as it accommodates those who cannot read music, or those do not sing well in practice. Tracing back to 1972 when karaoke first started its operation in Japan, it derived from the long tradition of public and communal singing in the country as a less demanding approach that enables singers to practice or perform their art without employing live musicians. The karaoke business has thrived and reached out to different countries during its glorious years in the 1980s, notably to the Chinese communities such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. These days karaoke has become one of the most significant and popular leisure activities of the general masses in Hong Kong. Early karaoke machines used 8-track cartridges (The Singing Machine) and cassette tapes, with printed lyric sheets, but technological advances replaced this with CDs, VCDs, laserdiscs and, currently, DVDs. In the late 1980s and 1990s, Pioneer Electronics dominated the international karaoke music video market, producing high quality karaoke music videos inspired by the music videos such as those on MTV. In 1992, Taito introduced the X2000, which fetched music via a dial-up telephone network. Its repertoire of music and graphics was limited, but its smaller size and the advantage of continuous updates saw it gradually replace traditional machines. Karaoke machines which are connected via fiber-optic links enabling them to provide instant high-quality music and video are becoming increasingly popular. In Chinese-speaking countries and regions such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, a karaoke box is called a KTV. The global karaoke market has been estimated to be worth nearly $10 billion.

Karaoke Classics Volume 1 of 47

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