The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly)
The podcast that takes karaoke exactly as seriously as it should be taken.
Recent Episodes
From Broadway, to Japan, to Seattle... and some Adele on the way (Bonus)
Jan. 12, 2022
This is the second of the season-ender clip shows, bringing back some of listener's favorite "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" quickfire rounds and, as a treat, Adam singing some Adele. In this episode, you'll hear again from: Ep…
We Asked, They Answered... Ten Times Over (Bonus)
Jan. 5, 2022
Between the holidays and, er, an infection of the... novel variety, we've been pushed back from doing interviews and scheduled episodes. To absolutely and blatantly misquote Rakim, "it's been a long time, we shouldn't have l…
These People, These Karaoke Monsters
Dec. 15, 2021
It’s all about fandom this week: how Adam and Ed are karaoke nerds, and how they are nerds in other ways as well. Adam claims to not be a comics nerd–will he pass the “Challenge of the Nerdy Songs?” They share the nerdiest k…
Episode 19 - Karaoke Archaeology
Dec. 1, 2021
This week, The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly) looks back at history through another music trivia challenge, and then dives headfirst into the history of karaoke, the thing that unites Adam and Ed in holy bromance-trimony d…
Episode 18 - Bless Your Heart, Phil Collins
Nov. 17, 2021
This week, Adam gets put on the spot with a sexy song challenge, and then Adam and Ed reminisce on flirting, dating, and relationships of all kinds that start and continue through karaoke. Then, Adam learns the true meaning …
Episode 17 - Good Vibes + Good People = Great Karaoke Spots
Nov. 3, 2021
The title says it all--it's just simple math. Now that things are opening up and karaoke is becoming safer and easier to access, Adam and Ed talk about the places they do karaoke, the things they like in a karaoke place, and…
Recent Blog Posts
Time Out's Top 50 Karaoke Songs of All Time: (#48) "(I Can…
If you're wondering what this is referring to, check out the previous posts in this series: Intro,#50, #49. Title: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"Artist…
Karaoke in comics? How does that work?
On the lastest episode, we talked with Douglas Wolk, who read all of Marvel Comics' superhero comics--that's over 27,000, if anyone's counting--because h…
Time Out's Top 50 Karaoke Songs of All Time: (#49) "What's…
If you're wondering what this is referring to, check out the previous posts in this series: 1. Time Out's Top 50 Karaoke Songs of All Time - an experient…
About the Hosts
Adam Wainwright
Podcast Host
Much like the protagonist of "I've Been Everywhere," Adam Wainwright has, in fact, been pretty much everywhere--all across the US, Japan, Australia. And, if there's a place with karaoke in his whirlwind path, Adam has probably already sang karaoke there. Currently, he lives in Newark, NJ, making use of that sweet, sweet GI Bill to get some continuing education.
Ed Cunard
Podcast Co-Host
Co-host and chief researcher for the podcast, Ed Cunard comes by his catholic knowledge of all things music honestly--he's oddly two degrees of separation away from a lot of old school musicians through his grandparents. The biggest gap in his musical education is how to actually make music that doesn't sound awful. When not singing in bars, he works as Director of Operations for a sales company, which almost makes sense with all those English degrees he's still paying for. He lives in the middle of nowhere with ten cats and two dogs.
Ben Dumm
Musician
Ben Dumm will have a real, grown-up bio soon, but he's real busy working on music (both for his personal projects and his professional ones). He graciously let us use his song "Gasoline" as our theme and bumper music. He's got lots of music to check out, and does commissions for commercial projects that require a music bed:
Current Music:
The Ben Dumm 3
Past Projects:
The Marauders
Ben Dumm and the Deviants
Gabe Cetra
Facebook Group Moderator
Episode 8 Guest and Esteemed Facebook Group Moderator Gabe Cetra is the unsung hero of the podcast, of backyard punk rock shows, and of two entirely too charming dogs. At some point, you may get to hear him play with Photo Joe and the Negatives if you are seeing gigs in the Pittsburgh area.
We just fucking love Gabe, man.