Early Karaoke adventures

Song: "My Boyfriend's Back", Artist: The Angels

Recently, I've been doing a lot of karaoke. Over the summer I did Karaoke nearly every week. It was more fun to pick out different songs every time, so I managed never to repeat myself. I sang songs by ABBA, Joan Baez, Soul Asylum, Gladys Knight, and scores of others.

When people ask me what the first song I ever sang at karaoke was, I usually say "Dream On" by Aerosmith, which I sang at a bar in Brooklyn towards the end of my senior year in high school. I was pretty proud of this performance, but I'm afraid that if I continue to claim it as my maiden voyage into the karaoke waters, i'll be a total fraud.
My true first performance happened when I was eight years old at Neverland theme park in Washington state. I went there with my parents and cousins during a family reunion. When I saw the sing for karaoke, i got really excited and decided to try it. I think I chose the song "My Boyfriend's Back" because of a romantic comedy that had been released around the same time with that title. I signed up, my parents paid the high theme park price, and I went on stage with my microphone.
What I didn't realize when I went on stage was that karaoke meant I actually had to sing the song I'd picked. The next two and a half minutes consisted of me mouth the words that I read off the monitor, and every once in awhile chiming in with the words "my boyfriend's back". My parents made hand motions to get me to actually sing, but I just didn't get it.
So now I've come clean. My first Karaoke performance was a disaster. I was young enough to get away with it, so I did, but I don't know if it would fly now.
...feels good to be honest...