REAL INVENTOR OF KARAOKE is Scott Ellison Ebright

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In  four decades of steady growth, karaoke music has expanded into a multi-billion dollar market world-wide. You may already have bought into the fake story a Japanese man invented karaoke.  But that was a completely fabricated marketing campaign, financed by a $10 million dollar disinformation campaign by Electronics companies in Japan. 

AudioSynTrac (AST) Corporation and its owner, Scott Ebright, was the first businessman and singer to conceive and implement the concept of singing live over pre-recorded music. Scott’s advertising slogan was: “A Revolutionary New Dimension In Live Entertainment”.  He faced a hailstorm of resistance from working musicians, singers and especially MUSICIANS UNIONS in the San Franciscoi Bay Area!  The musicians conducted a well-organized protest movement against Ebright's new form of entertainment.  Opponents medium based their fears on musicians across the world being squeezed out of their career jobs and livelihoods.  As complaints from well financed unions and recording musicians grew, so did the insults from opponents who mocked Ebright's visionary new music concept. They would jokingly call it CANNED MUSIC  or SPAM MUSIC IN A CAN.  (This was 25 years before the computer industry coined the word "spam" for unwanted junk emails).  

WIKIPEDIA BLOCKS TRUE STORY ABOUT SCOTT EBRIGHT'S INVENTION

The name of AudioSynTrac has been buried by a tsunami of tens of millions of dollars of aggressive lying, rumors and guerilla advertising attacks.  Asian electronics companies are constantly fueled by the deep pockets from the mother coorporation of all Adian electronic companies: Matsushita.  At the Chicago Consumer Electronic's Show in the mid-1970's, Ebright was formally introduced to the president of Matsushita, Konosuke Matsushita.  Corporate spies at this meeting obtained a microfilmed copy of Ebright's AudioSynTrac business plan and marketing prospectus. The  Japanese operatives used this full 50 page copy of Ebright's original business plan and marketing strategies to promote and sell their own casette music tapes and cassette tape players to the rest of the world. 

The ONLY thing the Japanese ever invented was the word “karaoke”, which actually means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. Since then, their world-wide advertising campaigns ripped-off Ebright's entire sing-along process.  Wikipedia has chosen sides with Matsushita Corporation as they have been aggressive about censoring any attempts by people trying to correct the ture historical record of Ebright's original invention Wiki's website.  But the world is now wary about many things that Wiikipedia articles state as true facts. Wikipedia editors and Generation "Z" editors  have brazenly and repeatedly made the claim that the inventor of karaoke was a Japanese inventor. But even THAT pile of lies is inconsistent. They offer up statements  alleged by other "inventors" when they suggest the first inventor was maybe Filipino, or Korean. The  Korean myth tells how a man built a coin vending machine connected to a tape player that played prerecorded music without vocals. But isn’t that basically just an ordinary jukebox?

It has been rumored that Wikipedia’s editors are susceptible to lucrative kick-backs from the lobbies of wealthy karaoke companies world-wide.  Many stories have surfaced over the years about corporate  PR staffs and legal departments waging a non-stop war against flagrant violations of international trade laws - and especially when it comes to Asian companies that are well known for stealing American products and mass producing fakes to be sold to world markets. The PEW Research center reports that by the year 2020, Chinese and other Asian counterfeit companies were grossing over 4 TRILLION dollars per year.
But now that the karaoke market has won their marketing battle of name recognition, the true story about Scott Ebright’s creation of AudioSynTrac's sing along products has been nearly erased from history. 

WHY SCOTT EBRIGHT INVENTED AUDIOSYNTRAC IN THE FIRST PLACE

In the early 1960’s, Scott Ebright was a drummer and singer in rock and roll bands. By 1971, he wanted to branch out from being just a band member, so he sought a new way to make a living while still entertaining audiences with music. But, unlike piano players or guitar players sitting on a stool, drummers are not considered a soloist that can entertain an audience for a full evening’s worth of music. Imagine audiences trying to listen to four sets a night of nothing but drum solos! So, Scott used his nightclub entertainment experience to spawn his Disc Jockey career  – and at the same time, this enabled him to sing live with AudioSynTrac music which sounded like a full band or orchestra, minus the lead vocals which he added live.     

By the late 1970’s, he devoted full time towards producing stage shows which put singers on a stage with wireless microphones, then added choreography and the singers sang live while the studio tapes were played back through a PA system. This show format became affordable for many more venues than before, and the problem of replacing and training new musicians was suddenly solved (although Musician’s Unions objected fiercely). Also, Scott used some of these tapes to sing his own songs while performing occasionally as “The Singing DJ”. AudioSynTrac was was defined through advertising as “A Revolutionary New Dimension in Live Entertainment”.

Based upon the enthusiastic reception of audiences responding to this new production format, Scott continued to promote AudioSynTrac in an effort to make his music tapes available to the general public and professional singers alike. That initiated a production deal with an electronics company that could produce his hardware to play the tapes on.

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