Kung Fu Fighting

Kung Fu Fighting is a disco - single by Carl Douglas . The single is from his album Kung Fu Fighting and other great love songs. The text for Kung Fu Fighting written by Douglas himself, the music is by Biddu Appaiah . Douglas took his inspiration from two fighting boys on the street. Another story is that he is a martial arts movie had been with after a concert by Oscar Peterson, and painkillers for an injured foot did the rest. It was at first not at all intended to record the number. Douglas sang lyrics for the single I wanna give you my everything. He was concerned with that day but there was still a B-side to come. Ultimate ruled the music producer that it would be better ifKung Fu Fighting the A-side would be Gamblin 'man was a B-side.

That decision paid off, because the world was in the grip of martial arts and especially kung fu, thanks to the television series Kung Fu with David Carradine as an apprentice and master. The single was a success in the Western world and drew several charts in the first place. One drawback was that Douglas' career only was dominated by this single and that is true but was spoken about Kung Fu music was sung and inserted, as in the movie Kung Fu Panda . A mayfly just was not; The next single was also successful in the Netherlands (No. 9 in. Top 40, No. 7 in the. National Hit Parade ). Eventually the picture was 11 million copies sold. Success in the Netherlands was equally sluggish start as in the rest of the world. Now it was not Toppop which boosted sales but a performance in Sjef van Oekels Disco Angle .

In 1998 the band made ​​Bus Stop in collaboration with Douglas a dance version of the song.

Contents

 * 1 Lists
 * 1.1 Dutch Top 40
 * 1.2 Dutch National Hit Parade
 * 1.3 Radio 2 Top 2000