Middle School Jamz: Songs My Kids Like to Sing for Karaoke Friday
The last Friday in August was our first Karaoke Friday! Today, I'm sharing some of the songs my students ended up singing to give you a few ideas about finding some tracks for your own classes. To read more about how I run Karaoke, check out this post.
How to find the tracks you need
The video embedded above is a great example of the types of tracks we like to use. It has the instrumental track without vocals, but words are displayed across the screen with some sort of tracking on the text. Sing King Karaoke has TONS of videos you can use. To find videos on YouTube, just type in the name of your song, followed by karaoke. So, for this video, I would type: "Fight Song karaoke" in the search bar.
Here are the tracks my students used
Each song includes a hyperlink that will take you to the YouTube video students sang with in class. Just click on the blue text.
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Rise Up Andra Day
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Hold On Chord Overstreet
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My Once Upon a Time Dove Cameron (from Descendents 3)
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Diamonds Rhianna
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The Git Up Blanco Brown (they danced to this...but I did have one student sing it, too)
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Hallelujah Leonard Cohen/Alexandra Burke (doesn't have all of the original verses, so it's clean for school)
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How Far I'll Go Auli'i Cravalho/Moana
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It's a Hard Knock Life from Annie
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Easy (Like Sunday Morning) The Commodores
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Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley
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Brown Skin Girl Beyonce
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Revenge Captain Sparklez (Minecraft Parody)
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Halo Beyonce
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Little Do You Know Alex & Sierra
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A Thousand Years Christina Perri
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Lost Boy Ruth B.
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Hello World Lady Antebellum
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I Love You Billie Eilish
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Love is an Open Door from Frozen
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Can't You See The Marshall Tucker Band
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Elmo's Song from Elmo's World/Sesame Street
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Lovely Billie Eilish
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Flashlight Jessie J.
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Love You Like A Love Song Selena Gomez
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Backseat Driver TobyMac
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Baby Shark Pink Fong
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Fight Song Rachel Platten
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I'm Yours Jason Mraz (change the "d- you're free" to "man" and you're good to go.)
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Hakuna Matata from The Lion King
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Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi