Controlled Karaoke: Marching Band Performs Perfume’s “Laser Beam”
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”]
Headline says everything, nothing else needed.
Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Or658kO8eI”]
Headline says everything, nothing else needed.
Via the Perfume City Twitter feed.
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