Turn your home computer into a karaoke machine with these fun, sing-along sites. All you need is an Internet connection and your multimedia computer. And although you can sing without it, a microphone connected to your sound card completes the transformation.
"Ants on the apple. A, A, A." Kiddy Karaoke offers twenty-six illustrated alphabet songs to the tune of "Skip to My Lou" and a nice selection of other childhood favorites arranged alphabetically. To enter, chose either Phonic Sing-Along, or Song Menu. This popular GeoCities site is occasionally the victim of its own success, and is unavailable because it has exceeded its data transfer limit. If this happens to you, just remember to try again later.
"Hi! I'm MoJo, and this is my Musical Mouseum -- a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs!" Lyrics are arranged both alphabetically and by category, and for those songs marked with a musical note icon, the Mouseum includes a MIDI too. Categories include traditional, silly, lullabies, action, finger plays, food, and lots of holiday songs. If you know just a snippet of the lyrics, but not the title, try the Song Search tool.
"Cruella De Vil, Cruella De Vil. If she doesn't scare you no evil thing will." Lidwina's collection of 120 Disney melodies and lyrics is sure to keep you singing for hours. From "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" from the 1933 "Three Little Pigs," to four selections from the 1999 "Tarzan" movie, this site is a wonderful romp through more than seventy years of Disney songs. The songs are in standard MIDI format. To view the lyrics while playing the songs, I suggest right-clicking on the MIDI links and opening them in a new window.
In support of their mandate to build an educational website that supports literacy, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has a large selection of sing-along lyrics and MIDIs. In addition to songs categorized as favorites, holidays, children's, and movies and musicals, NIEHS has a nice collection of patriotic songs not found elsewhere. And don't leave without playing a round of Guess this Tune. There are three versions: Guess this Children's Tune, Guess this Patriotic Tune, and Guess this Oldies' Tune.
"It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood. A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?" But that's not all. In addition to Mister Roger's Neighborhood, there's everyone's favorite purple dinosaur Barney, and songs from Arthur and Theodore Tugboat. These PBS songs are the original recordings, not Karaoke melodies. And although some of them (such as Mister Roger's) include printed lyrics, most do not. Requires Shockwave and RealPlayer.
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