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"Kung Fu Fighting" is a disco song by Jamaican vocalist Carl Douglas, written by Douglas and produced by British-Indian musician Biddu. [3] It was released in 1974 as the first single from his debut album, Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs (1974), on the cusp of a chopsocky film craze and rose to the top of the British, Australian, Canadian, and American charts, in addition to ...
Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs is the debut studio album by Jamaican disco artist Carl Douglas. It reached number one on the Billboard Soul LPs chart and number 37 on Billboard's overall Top LPs & Tape chart in 1975. In Europe, Asia, Africa and South America the album was released under the name Kung Fu Fighter. [2]
In the United States, Douglas is considered a one-hit wonder, since he is commonly known only for "Kung Fu Fighting" (its follow-up "Dance the Kung Fu" stalled at number 48). In the United Kingdom, two of his other singles made it into the top 40: "Dance the Kung Fu", which peaked at number 35 in the charts, and "Run Back", which peaked at ...
Kung Fu Panda (Music from the Motion Picture) is the score album to the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda. The album features original score composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and a cover of the disco song "Kung Fu Fighting" performed by CeeLo Green and Jack Black (who also plays Po, the lead character). The album consisted of traditional and ...
"Kung Fu Fighting" Carl Douglas: 16 "Black Water" The Doobie Brothers: 17 "The Ballroom Blitz" Sweet: 18 "(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" B.J. Thomas: 19 "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" Tony Orlando and Dawn: 20 "At Seventeen" Janis Ian: 21 "Pick Up the Pieces" Average White Band: 22 "The Hustle" Van McCoy ...
His international breakthrough came in 1974 with "Kung Fu Fighting" performed by Carl Douglas; the song became one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold, helped popularise disco music, [3] [7] was the first worldwide disco hit from Britain [8] and Europe, [1] and established Biddu as one of the most prolific ...
In his new Netflix comedy special “What Had Happened Was,” Jamie Foxx finally told the story behind the mysterious and harrowing medical emergency that left him hospitalized and fighting for ...
Kung Fu – Jim Helms; The L Word ("The Way That We Live") – Betty; L.A. Heat – Louis Febre; L.A. Law – Mike Post; La Femme Nikita – Mark Snow; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County ("Come Clean") – Hilary Duff; Lancer – Jerome Moross; Land of the Giants – John Williams (two themes) Land of the Lost – Linda Laurie and Michael Lloyd