Hey there! I love going out to do karaoke! 
karaoke" is also used by recording engineers to refer to an instrumental version of a recording (i.e., to a version of a recording with no vocal track).
No way. I had no idea. I thought it was all just about singing off-key in a bar! Haha.
Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band/orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical, so they use a "karaoke" 
I bet its been around a long time, in that case.
In the late 1960s and into the 1970s,
You know it all! You'd be fun to go out to karaoke and trivia with!
. The primary difference between Karaoke and sing-along songs is the absence of the lead vocalist.
Sing-alongs (present since the beginning of singing) fundamentally changed with the introduction of new technology. In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, stored audible materials began to dominate the music recording industry and revolutionized the portability and ease of use of band and instrumental music by musicians and entertainers as the demand for entertainers increased globally. This may have been attributable to the introduction of music cassette tapes, technology that arose
final version, Seymour Stein, head of Sire Records, declared, "I dared to believe this was going to be huge beyond belief, the biggest thing I'd ever had, after I heard 'Borderline'... The passion that she put into that song, I thought, there's no stopping this girl."
Recording and composition.
"Borderline" was recorded in February 1983 and presented a change in Madonna's normal vocal tone. A sentimental track, the song talks about a love that is never