The podcast that takes karaoke exactly as seriously as it should be taken. Every episode, hosts Adam Wainwright and Ed Cunard discuss an aspect of karaoke or music and play a short round of trivia on that topic, where one of them challenges the other with five questions related to the topic, along with an Impossible Bonus question. Then, they're joined by someone (karaoke hosts and singers, musicians, actors, comedians, authors) with a connection to that topic—and feature that guest singing ...
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Like Ursula for Good: Vocal Health and Karaoke Singing Tips with Vocal Coach Katherine Werbiansky from Voice Revolution
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Today, the show might as well be called “The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Slightly Better Than Before),” which is far less catchy, but it captures the theme: it’s all about taking care of your vocal instrument and sounding better at karaoke. Adam and Ed did their research, as they aren’t vocal care professionals, and they share what you should and shou…
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We Have a Karaoke Podcast: Karaoke Personas and Branding with Vinnie Potestivo from "I Have a Podcast"
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In their 1978 song “Who Are You,” The Who asked “who are you? Who, who, who, who,” and in this episode, Adam and Ed ask the same question: who are you… at karaoke? Are you the same person on and off stage? Do you change who you are for different venues, different crowds? The trivia focuses on the same, sort of: artists who have crafted and released…
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Kind of Creative, But Mainly Just a Mess: Answering the question "is karaoke punk?" with Johnny Marriott of Pet Needs
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While their tastes in punk rock are a little different, punk is a genre that Adam and Ed both adore. This week, The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) tackles a weighty question: is karaoke, in a way, kind of punk? The Karaoke Trivia Bullpen focuses on punk music, as does Adam and Ed’s conversation on that heady question, as well as their favorite pu…
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That Struts and Frets Their Hour Upon the Stage: Live Band Karaoke with Tom Medvitz of Lead Singer Wanted
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Listen. There’s really nothing Adam and Ed love more than karaoke–that should be obvious nearly two years into this podcast. But as much as they love regular karaoke, they recognize that there’s something special about one of the varieties of it–that’s live band karaoke, the closest they’ll ever feel to being rockstars. And they want you to be rock…
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The Games Karaoke People Play: Adding Fun to Karaoke, Work, and Life with Mike Montague
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If there’s one thing folks lose over time–even in a pursuit as wild and zany as karaoke–it’s the fun, the joie de vivre that makes everything that much better. While Adam and Ed have always tried to carpe de karaoke and make nights more fun, adding some structure and formats to that has really amped up their karaoke nights just the way that the Kar…
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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Karaoke Singers: The Villains of Karaoke with Tiana Hennings (Next Door Villain)
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It’s not all sunshine and rainbows at “The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly)” this episode, just like it isn’t all raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens at your average karaoke night. No, sometimes villainy creeps in, and puts a slight stain on an otherwise awesome night of songs and drinks and friends and strangers. Adam and Ed dive into the v…
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Karaoke People: Talking with Brenden Kumarasamy on how karaoke can improve your public speaking skills
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If there’s one thing that podcasting lacks, it’s people giving you lists of ways to improve something in your life. Since Adam and Ed noticed this – this absolute dearth of self-improvement out there in the podcast-o-sphere – they decided they’d provide a corrective and give direct, actionable advice. They are pleased to provide you, the loyal list…
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Is There Any Better or Equal Hope in the Karaoke World?: Karaoke in Fictional Settings with Brad Williams ("Once Upon a Wasteland")
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Before anything else, this episode starts with a pre-roll on the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. For more information on what a staggering amount of the podcast community is doing, please visit podvoices.help, and for more information about abortion support systems, please click this link: Abortion Advocacy Links — podvoices.help. With eve…
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Life, Love, and the (Karaoke) Blues: Deceptive Lyrics, Murder Ballads, and Women in Music and Karaoke with Courtney E. Smith
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What’s creepier than being misunderstood? Adam and Ed kick off with a “women of the blues” Karaoke Trivia Bullpen challenge before diving into the karaoke songs that are often sung without really contemplating the meaning behind those lyrics. Which boy band from the ‘90s is like “if bubble gum pop and Jean-Paul Sartre had a baby?” Which dance pop h…
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June’s a lot of things, but the first thing it is here at The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) is Pride month. We’re kicking things off with announcing three new pieces of merch (all proceeds from which will go to The Trevor Project and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, so if you want to support that, buy those, and if you want to s…
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Let's Get Weird with Karaoke
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This week, The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) gets… weird (weirder?). After a Weird Al themed trivia challenge that ends up turning into a sing-a-long a few times, Adam and Ed get into what’s weird at karaoke (already a fundamentally weird endeavor). If you have any weird karaoke advice questions for them, they’ve signed up for Podinbox–leave a v…
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Hip Hop at Karaoke: The Don't, the Do, and the Deuces
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Let's be honest--when it comes to talking about hip hop, you probably don't want to hear two middle-aged white guys wax philosophical about it. Hell, neither do your hosts Adam and Ed. But when it comes to talking about hip hop at karaoke, that? That's their wheelhouse. They talk about great hip hop songs to do at karaoke, songs that are surprising…
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Finding Your Karaoke Voice (or Voices) with Comedian and Impressionist Bobby Hedglin-Taylor
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Karaoke is all about singing, right? That should be obvious, but what's a little less obvious is finding your voice. Do you sing like yourself, in your natural voice? Do you try to imitate the original artist? Ed makes the bold claim that he is "the voice of karaoke" (and that isn't about the quality of the singing), and Adam and Ed talk about taki…
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A Cool Thing About Karaoke: Taking Risks with Good People
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In the movie BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT, one of the characters says “life’s a risk, carnal.” Life is absolutely a risk–and so is karaoke. After this episode's Karaoke Trivia Bullpen challenge, Adam and Ed talk about the risks and rewards of karaoke, and the risks associated with starting a mobile KJ business–chiefly, the cost it takes to set one up in the…
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Hey, look at us, posting on a Friday! Today, we’re the podcast that takes etymology *exactly* as seriously as it should be taken. Well, we don't, but The Endless Knot (alliterative.net) does–it’s April Fool’s Day, and Operation Switcheroo, so we’ve switched places with Mark and Aven–their listeners are hearing one of our episodes, and you’re hearin…
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You know, doing this podcast has been a journey for Adam and Ed. Or, rather, it's been a step on their own personal karaoke journeys, and that's what this episode is all about. Even the Karaoke Trivia Bullpen focuses on journeys (and, for one question, at least, the band Journey). They relive some of their karaoke history and share some karaoke phi…
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This week on "The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly)," Adam and Ed reminisce about some fantastic karaoke regions--from Japan and the Phillipines, to New York City, Portland Oregan, Florida and, of course, western Pennsylvania, where they both cut their baby karaoke teeth and became the karaoke-obsessed people they are today. Naturally, the Karaoke B…
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This week, Adam and Ed get a little serious–they talk about all things health and wellness, and how they relate to karaoke. Even the Karaoke Trivia Bullpen focuses on it, as Adam quizzes the notoriously morose Ed on songs about happiness. But they also share some of the benefits of singing and karaoke. As the fellas both say, neither of them is lic…
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The Second the Singalong Starts It'll Be Sensational: Cover Songs, Karaoke, and... Frank Turner?
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Disclaimer: there is no actual singalong, but Adam and Ed do interview Frank Turner, the musician and songwriter responsible for that line from his song “The Gathering,” part of his ninth album F.T.H.C. releasing 11 February 2022. Prior to the interview, Adam and Ed debut their new, more formal trivia game "The Karaoke Trivia Bullpen" with some que…
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This week, The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) finishes up its look back on its inaugural season, including the final four quickfire rounds. In these fifty-nine minutes, you'll hear from: Terry and Naomi Clark (owners of Black Parakeetz in Nyack, NY): 4:33 Honey Leavitt (host, "The Honey Leavitt Show" podcast): 17:12 Christian Swain (host, "Rock N…
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From Broadway, to Japan, to Seattle... and some Adele on the way (Bonus)
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This is the second of the season-ender clip shows, bringing back some of listener's favorite "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" quickfire rounds and, as a treat, Adam singing some Adele. In this episode, you'll hear again from: Episode 11: Dana Babal of Non-stop Broadway (6:31) Episode 12: Ayumi Shinozaki (15:36) Episode 13: Mike Wiston and Joe Rubin (21…
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We Asked, They Answered... Ten Times Over (Bonus)
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Between the holidays and, er, an infection of the... novel variety, we've been pushed back from doing interviews and scheduled episodes. To absolutely and blatantly misquote Rakim, "it's been a long time, we shouldn't have left you / without a karaoke podcast to step to" so, to make up for the delay, we're releasing this bonus episode. If you've ne…
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It’s all about fandom this week: how Adam and Ed are karaoke nerds, and how they are nerds in other ways as well. Adam claims to not be a comics nerd–will he pass the “Challenge of the Nerdy Songs?” They share the nerdiest karaoke-related things they’ve been a part of, and then want to share a give-away with you–-instructions in the show--and if yo…
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Karaoke Archaeology
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This week, The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) looks back at history through another music trivia challenge, and then dives headfirst into the history of karaoke, the thing that unites Adam and Ed in holy bromance-trimony despite all their obvious differences. They cover where it originated, who created it, how it came to the US, and some things t…
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Bless Your Heart, Phil Collins
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This week, Adam gets put on the spot with a sexy song challenge, and then Adam and Ed reminisce on flirting, dating, and relationships of all kinds that start and continue through karaoke. Then, Adam learns the true meaning of “bless your heart” and Ed reveals how kink free he actually is when Honey Leavitt of the Honey Leavitt Show (a comedy podca…
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Good Vibes + Good People = Great Karaoke Spots
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The title says it all--it's just simple math. Now that things are opening up and karaoke is becoming safer and easier to access, Adam and Ed talk about the places they do karaoke, the things they like in a karaoke place, and some of their all-time favorite karaoke spots, including some new ones Ed found on a work trip to Cincinnati (check out the b…
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Rotating Around to Burleskaraoke
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This time around, the guys don't dilly-dally or chat about their personal lives--there's so much karaoke fun to be had that they jump right into it. Adam hits Ed right off the bat with a Broadway challenge, and then they dive into one of the biggest karaoke argument springboards--the rotation. If you have a strong opinion on how a karaoke rotation …
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Hold Me, Thrill Me, Karaoke Me
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This week, Ed reminisces about getting to see an outdoor punk rock show held in Episode 8 guests Gabe and Leigh Cetra's backyard, where he rocked out to the sounds Ben Dumm and Kepi Ghoulie (formerly of The Groovy Ghoulies). Then, to liven things up, Ed and Adam play a karaoke news based "two truths and a lie" style game we're calling "The Greatest…
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The Singing Machine is a Time Machine
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Breakout your JNCO jeans and your... um... whatever people wore in the 2000s. This week, Adam and Ed get nostalgic for the '90s and 2000s. The music, the karaoke... ok, they don't really remember karaoke in the '90s and early 2000s (Ed really bombed the '90s- and 2000s- themed challenge), but their guest Brian Raftery (author of "Don't Stop Believi…
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Home Is Where the Friday Night Karaoke Is
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Back in Episode 4, Ed and Adam talked a bit about online karaoke, and what it was missing for them. In this episode, they cover events from the past week in their lives, like "what rhymes with Ivermectin?" and poetry and, well, other things. But then! Then get right into the important stuff: how one of karaoke's big selling points is the communitie…
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The Birthplace of Karaoke
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This week on TGSESP, we decide it's time we acknowledge our bias as Western karaoke people and talk more about karaoke in it's birthplace, JAPAN. Highlights include: Adam's experiences in Japan, scanning our catchphrase, ASMR, a new challenge, a new segment ONLY for Ben Dumm, Ed's gastrointestinal distress, ACTUAL insight into karaoke in Japan, FAM…
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Broadway Babies
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OK, normally in these descriptions it's a quick hit summary of what to expect. That is completely unnecessary since all you need to know about this one is it's AAAALLLLLLLL about Broadway baby. Ed and I let our geek flag fly as I school Ed on modern hits and Ed challenges me with some trivia. Our guest Dana Babel rounds out the show by talking abou…
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Now This Here's a Story..
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This week on TGSESP, we take a deep dive into the world of storytelling and how it applies to karaoke. While Ed and I clearly have stories for days, we thought it best to consult an expert so we were delighted to have Mara Wilson join us to talk about karaoke, kitties, storytelling, kitties, musicals, kitties, and so much more! Here's what else to …
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In this episode of TGSESP, we let our competitive sides show as we talk about what it means to "win" karaoke and then talk to the person who actually won karaoke. Here's what you can look forward to: fireworks playlist propoganda, a challenge to R. Kelly, more selfless promotion for Kettle Dad's Barbecue, karaoke challenges, competitions, and conte…
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Let's Duet in Ways That Make Us Feel Good
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On this week's episode of TGSESP, we recognize that karaoke feels good when you do it yourself but, is just better with a partner. In that spirit, we brought in two karaoke experts, that share in their love of karaoke and love of each other, to debate what the best karaoke duet song of all time is. Talking points include: dive bar Hallelujah, getti…
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World's collide on this week's episode of TGSESP as comedy and karaoke merge to make one big ball of warm soup. Ed demonstrates his knowledge (or lack there of) of Weird Al, Adam brings back an "old" segment, Adam and Ed both establish new "kill this song" canon and our guest Thomas the Red saves the entire show by bringing actual funny to the podc…
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Questions, Answers and Smooth Talk
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This week's episode of TGSESP is all about answering your questions and dropping all the karaoke knowledge everywhere. Ed and Adam show off their smooth voices, a dog outshines both of them as co-host, Adam laments about the Yankees, Ed reminisces about days gone by, we feature some of Florida's best (or at least enthusiastic) karaoke singers, and …
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Party Boy and the Party Pooper
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This week's episode of TGSESP is all about getting the party started as our guest Christopher Smith helps us weed through a randomly generated bracket of karaoke party songs to determine what is, in fact, the song to get the party started at karaoke. Ed and Adam go head-to-head on, well, everything, Ed names a new bathtub, all Adam wants is Kermit …
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On this week's episode of The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly): Ed and Adam talk about being Phizer warriors, Adam has a new podcast idea, Ed shares way too much about how he's coped with not being able to go to karaoke, they get into an old man argument about Tiktok and welcome in their guest Jonathan Barnes who breaks down the how to's of online …
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Spring is in the air as Adam and Ed talk about their (sorta) mutual love of baseball, what it's like for that person at the bar who's NOT there for karaoke and what you can do to help, special guest Ben Dumm gives them rock star insight on what it's like to be that person and Ben delivers one of the best answers yet in 'Hit Me With Your Best Shot'.…
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The KJ: Professional Drunk Hoarder And So Much More
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On this episode of The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly), Ed and Adam tap into their announcer voices, find out that they are vaccination twinsies, have a small disagreement around the word 'hyped', delve way too deep into what it means to be a karaoke DJ (NOT KJ), and reunite with a friend. Guest: Chris Price, Owner of Crisp Entertainment Featuring…
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In the "inaugural" episode of The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) Ed and Adam establish themselves as experts in their field, discuss the karaoke addiction that led to their love for each other, define the "perfect" karaoke week, talk to Zachary Michael Mattis who introduces them to Stanley Bigshoulders and Inda Blonde, put Zach through the first …
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Hey, look! We made a trailer with clips from the show. If you haven't listened yet, this is meant to entice you, probably? If you've already listened and subscribed... this is like a teeny-tiny "Best Of" episode, maybe? So, yes, we did a marketing! Theme song "Gasoline" provided by Ben Dumm and The Deviants. Check out Ben's latest project The Ben D…
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