Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next is Beth Wexler (Rita Wilson), who rejects a night and a day of advances, to Lawrence's immense puzzlement ("I do think I've put in the hours, don't you?"). The rest of this ship of idealists bellows away the time with endless choruses of '60s sing-along favorites like Puff the Magic Dragon...
...scene where Jack is getting his sea legs from the pirate Scully takes them out to the deep sea, where Jack asks his mentor if he knows any seashanties. Of course, the venerable seaman responds, he knows "a many sea ditties." He proceeds to sing a "seashanty" that turns out to be the theme from The Love Boat sung in an limey sailor's accent...
Many Americans are frustrated crooners who sing in the shower and warble along with their Walkman tapes. But aside from belting out the national anthem with the crowd in the bleachers or cutting loose with the congregation on Sunday, most have been too shy or too sober to sing in public. Now thousands of closet Sinatras and Madonnas are publicly vocalizing, thanks to a nifty electronic device from Japan called the karaoke...
...name means "empty orchestra," but Americans are getting to know the device as music less one -- the one being the amateur performer who sings along with the prerecorded music of professional instrumentalists in the background. The machine then blends the sounds, and the result can seem as slick as an MTV sound track. In 1984 some 25,000 machines from a handful of Japanese companies were sold in the U.S., and J.C. Penney and Sears now carry models in their catalogs. Karaokes, which range from $150 to $2,500, incorporate a cassette player, loudspeaker and microphone in a single unit...
Whatever is doing it, Americans are ready to sing along. Three times a week, young patrons let loose to hot backgrounds at Carlos Murphy's, a restaurant in La Jolla, Calif., where technicians enhance the performances by projecting singers' images on a giant video screen and playing applause tapes afterward. "If the sing-along machine were put in every nightclub, it would cut into psychiatrists' business by 50%," says Ed Masterson, who produces the club's sing-out. "It's a tremendous release. You become someone important, even if it's only for a night." And for an encore...