Happy Fourth of July

Today is about our freedom and Independence. What better way to express that than with music or shopping the sales at the mall. I actually won’t be shopping today I’m going to take my kids to Bellevue for some good music and eating. Then we’re going to a friends and family party.

So here are some great music picks according to the Karaoke Channel.

The KARAOKE Channel ONLINE offers you access to the largest catalog of karaoke song licenses in the world in addition to providing access to social sharing features and user profiles and ratings. This library includes American classics such as, but not limited to (in no particular order):

  1. American Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  2. Yankee Doodle - Traditional 
  3. American Pie - Don Mclean                               
  4. This Land is Your Land - Traditional 
  5. American Woman - Lenny Kravitz                      
  6. An American Trilogy - Elvis Presley
  7. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue - Toby Keith
  8. Heartland - George Strait

9. Surfin’ USA - Beach Boys  

10. Grand Old Flag

11. America (My Country ‘tis of Thee)

  1. America the Beautiful - Ray Charles                   
  2. Honky Tonk America - Sammy Kershaw
  1. God Bless the USA - American Idol Finalists           
  2. Thank God I’m a Country Boy - John Denver
  3. Our Country - John Mellencamp
  4. R.O.C.K. in the USA - John Mellencamp                        
  5. Kids in America - Kim Wilde
  6. I Am a Patriot - Little Steven
  7. Stars and Stripes Forever, The - Traditional
  8. Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagles Fly - Aaron Tippin

22. Star Spangled Banner – Whitney Houston

23. Living in America – James Brown

24. America – West Side Story

  1. God Bless America - LeAnn Rimes                    

The starter kit has a suggested retail price of $39.95, or comes for free with an annual subscription on the Karaoke Channel Online (www.online.thekaraokechannel.com). The Ultimate Karaoke Experience starter kit includes:

  • A USB vocal mixer with echo and volume controls
  • Two uni-directional dynamic microphones – great for soloing or duets
  • Is PC and MAC compatible

31 bloggers in 31 days Day 6 – Karaoke Channel

Welcome to my blog.

I really wanted to do a video review but things are just not working out for me right now. I’m lucky that I can still blog. On Saturday my laptop crashed. My husband plugged it into the main computer to see if we could get it back up and well that made the main computer crash. Somehow my husband managed to get my computer up but it wasn’t until today he was able to get his computer back up. So video is out for now.

Which is quite sad, so let me tell you what I had planned.

Trisha from the queen of mommy bloggers, oh I mean MomDot is turning 31 years old on May 31st. She decided that having 31 bloggers doing giveaways would be a lot of fun and I agree. Going around to visit other bloggers is a ton of fun (I would be out there with you guys but family is in town, TODAY is my BIRTHDAY!!!, and our computer problems aren’t helping anything).

Day 6 is Momstart (me, did I mention today is my birthday and I’m only 29?)

THE KARAOKE CHANNELNo really, it should be about Trisha and my sponsor, The Karaoke Channel. Trisha has been nothing but extra wonderful to me and my blog. She accepted me as a member of Bloggers Give and I didn’t want to let her down so I have been working my butt off to get it off the ground with her. It’s been a lot of fun and I’ve learned a lot. And she has helped me reach some of my blogging goals. Now all I need is the confidence to start charging. She has become my friend. I consider her a good friend, even though we’ve never met. Don’t make her mad I think she leaves claw marks when she’s defending a friend. ;-) THANK YOU you’re the best. Happy Birthday!

Now for the Giveaway.

The KARAOKE Channel Karaoke Kit - PC & MAC (1 USB mixer + 2 microphones)The The Karaoke Channel is providing one winner a month’s free subscription and a Karaoke Kit. The set plugs into your computer and becomes a Karaoke Machine. The Kit is 39.95 on Amazon and you can bundle it into your purchase when you purchase a monthly subscription from The Karaoke Channel. There is a free trial and there are free songs, but to get the full feel of it I recommend purchasing the 9.95 plan.

I know it’s really sad that we don’t have any video because a Karaoke set really does need a video seal of approval and I was going to sing “Happy Birthday” to Trisha, Marilyn Monroe style. I had it all planned out…

My Opinion:

We have all test software on our computers, all beta versions and it still managed to work. There were a few kinks, but we’re impressed that it did so well in an unfamiliar setting. You can get an echo, which is a fun effect. You have two microphones so my kids don’t fight, oh wait even when toys are identical they want what the other one has.

Their web interface is a lot better than I expected it to be. We went into the children’s genre and pulled up kids songs to sing and the background had some school kids singing and playing instruments in the background. One of the backgrounds had fish. I really liked how easy it was, you just plug it in. It’s made for the most basic of systems. That was one of our issues, our system was so complex. Once we realized it was a simple set up, it worked fine, the browser issues was for the microphone to work we had to keep an arrow pushed down with the mouse. We feel it was a software issue and not The Karaoke Channel.

50.00 value is yours by visiting The Karaoke Channel and picking out a song. Giveaway Ends May 31st