'member karaoke-style recording studios in most malls and amusement parks in the late 80s? (weird cover mp3 inside)

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i recently unearthed a cassette containing a fun/scary cover of Jump (Van Halen) from about 1988, recorded in a mall in Binghamton, NY, in 1988. back then, it seemed like these cheapo karaoke recording studios were everywhere. we paid about 9 bucks for the privilege of making this masterpiece. now it's been digitized for all the internets to enjoy! does anyone else remember recording something at one of these places? i think they did videos too. you could wear 'rock star' wigs and ummm... everything.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i did one of those. recorded a rollicking "i write the songs" at a kiosk at six flags over mid america. '89 or so.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hell, that's a riot!

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

These are pure gold. I had a tape somewhere of my ex-girlfriend and two of her friends doing 'End of the Road', it was just great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

good thread timing. i was actually wondering just 2, 3 days ago whatever happened to these things. it would get eatin' up. cash cow. etc.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one set up at my Bar Mitzvah.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

somewhere i have a video of me singing "paradise city" while the video plays behind me. i paid five bucks for this privilege.

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i think i was even wearing a guns 'n' roses shirt that day.

― hockey family (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

chrizby, that's fah-great.. I tried to get some coworkers to do one once, but they chose "Lean on Me" and wanted to sing it all melodically - with 12 people .. it was a bust. Must find that tape.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. that video thing sounds like that shit that tours college campuses during the first week of school. Video Starz, or some such. where the school entertainment committee gets all this stuff on campus (carrot top, magicians, inflatable suit wrestling, etc.) to show freshmen how fun and whacky Student Life is.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, I used to have a karaoke machine. I wish I still had the tapes.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - that's almost Klaus Beyer-ish.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, Klaus Beyer - I just saw an excerpt from a documentary about him last week.

Didn't Mary J. Blige actually get discovered by circulating a tape she recorded at one of those kiosks of Chaka's "Sweet Thing"?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I had one set up at my Bar Mitzvah.

i was just about to say i remember these things at bar mitzvahs!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

man - i was going to the wrong bar mitzvahs...

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an absolutely devastating tape of a large group of several 8th grade friends spreading the "Stop the Violence" message with a virtually avant garde take on "Self Destruction" recorded at King's Dominion in Doswell, Virginia in the early summer of 1989. The Ms. Melodie and KRS-One verses are particularly gripping, as they quickly devolve into a collection of potent "weiner" rhymes.

― Nostalgia for the Old Cineramadome (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i have one of me doing "the greatest love of all" at six flags great adventure, circa 1988. oy.

however, i do wish that someone would tape my weekly excursions to karaoke bars.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Vid of "Soul Man" as part of my 30th birthday celebration.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 November 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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