Sorry folks,
People are welcome to join in with my singing uninvited when they and I are jarred - which would certainly not be at a club - o/w wait till you're asked.
Where do you draw the line - I've had Shimrod's experience of an egotistical turd making a ballad a singalong on a number of occasions.
You're either running a singers club or a Palace of Varieties where everybody joins in.
Most of the residents I was involved with made it a practice to include chorus songs; where these were not straightforward we even taught them to encourage audiences.
It's not just a case of exhibitionists showing us they know the words; it's the audiences who don't listen to what and how the singer is singing - also a regular occurrence.
Walter Pardon was forced to drop several songs from his repertoire because of audiences who sang loud harmonies and dragged the speed out - which totally threw him - arrogant bad manners.
The fact that nobody has even attempted to answer the questions I asked is proof enough for me that this is a bad practice - clubs who allow it should come with a health warning.
The logic is that singers have to demand the right to sing solo and (Marje) the idea that there is one rule for a named guest and another for a rank-and-file resident is elitism run mad.
Bloody right it annoys me Mick
Jim Carroll