Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service and now a program from our archives.

Today we're taking you back to the early 1970s and an invention

which changed Knights Out forever, the karaoke machine. Ashley Burns spoke to its inventor, Dysuke Inoue in 2015.

The word karaoke literally translated from Japanese to English means empty orchestra, music without any vocal track. And in practice,

it enables any one of us to sing along to a popular song

without needing to worry about getting the exact vocal range right. You don't need to be a perfect singer to have a go. And that's exactly where the inspiration for karaoke came from in the first place.

In 1971, Daesuke Inouee was a keyboard player and drummer at a club in Kobe.

He played in a Nagashi group, freelance musicians who would perform for office workers and

business people who'd visit the venue.

In those days the Japanese were too shy to sing in front of other people. But at nightclubs or bars there were sometimes

Nagashi musicians. They played mostly the guitar and sang for drunken customers. The

customers would occasionally join in or ask the Nagashi to play a song for them to sing too.

One of my customers who was terrible at singing told me that he was having a party with

shareholders of his company and he wanted to impress them so he invited me to get some

musicians together to come and play for him, but to change the songs, so they

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