Help with Accompaniment for Audition?

[HawaiianShirts]

Next year, a community theater not far from me is putting on "Spamalot!" I'm not normally interested in musicals--I'd rather do Shakespeare just because I find that easiest to memorize--but I really want to be a part of this one, and I think I've got a decent chance.

I also found a song I want to use as my audition piece: Generic Uptempo Folk Song by the Limelighters. Now, I can sing reasonably well with accompaniment, and I can handle some a'capella if I practice a LOT first, but otherwise I have no musical talent. The only way I can identify notes on sheet music is by mentally measuring how far they are from the one note I can recognize and hit consistently (which is A in the lowest space on the bass clef).

I'm hoping there's some musically talented individual in this great forum who could help me out. What I need is an audio file of the accompaniment for this song so that I can put it on my phone, take it to auditions, and sing along. It wouldn't matter to me whether it's a recording of a person playing an instrument or if it's somehow computer generated.

I found guitar chords and lyrics here https://www.fleamarketmusic.com/bull...lletinID=29941 as well as links to YouTube videos of the song here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYh...ature=youtu.be and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zkOoZr_B08.

That is, unless someone has better Google Fu skills than I do and can find some sheet music for it.

Anybody willing to help or know some additional resources I could try?

[csquared]

Did you try searching for "karaoke"? I found a couple for sale.

[wolfie]

One bit of trivia I picked up quite a while ago - in stereo recordings with one vocalist, usually the vocalist is the only element that's pretty much the same between the left and right tracks. If you can't find a music-only version of the song, but can find a stereo recording with voice, you can try making a mono recording (lots of sound processors out there for computers) by subtracting one track from the other. Lyrics drop out, leaving a (somewhat distorted) accompaniment.

[HawaiianShirts]

Did you try searching for "karaoke"? I found a couple for sale.

Really? I just tried it, but I couldn't find this particular song, for sale or otherwise.

If you can't find a music-only version of the song, but can find a stereo recording with voice, you can try making a mono recording (lots of sound processors out there for computers) by subtracting one track from the other. Lyrics drop out, leaving a (somewhat distorted) accompaniment.

Friend of mine tried that with some program he has, but the output was almost indistinguishable from the input. Maybe the audio file he was using wasn't stereo...