Carl Douglas

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Carl Douglas (born 1942) is a Jamaican-born singer, most famous for his song “Kung Fu Fighting”, which hit number one on both the US Billboard Chart and the UK Singles Chart in 1974. The fame of this homage to martial arts films has overshadowed the rest of the singer’s career, resulting in his appearance on cover versions of the song. Douglas only released two other tracks. These singles were “Dance The Kung Fu” and “Run Back”.

He now resides in Germany where he runs a publishing company that co-ordinates films, documentaries, and advertisements. He is also in the process of recording new material to release.

1	Kung Fu Fighting full track	1,515
2	Dance the Kung Fu full track	17
3	Kung-Fu Fighting	9
4	Kung Foo Fighting	7
5	Run Back full track	6
6	Kong Fu Fighting	4
6	I Want to Give You My Everything full track	4
6	Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting	4
6	Kungfu Fighting	4
10	Never Had This Dream Before full track	3
10	Too Hot to Handle full track	3
10	Kung Fu Fighting (1974 No.1 Single)	3
13	Witchfinder General full track	2
13	Kung Fu Fighting (Dance Mix)	2
13	Girl, You're So Fine	2

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Kung Fu Fighting
Carl Douglas
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The Soul of the Kung Fu Fighter
Carl Douglas
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Sounds of the Seventies: 1974
Various Artists
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The Best of Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting
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Nourez wrote:
Monday morning

Can you say one hit wonder?

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Kokirin wrote:
10 days ago

Haha. Kung Fu Fighting, Kung-Fu Fighting, Kung Foo Fighting, everybody was kung fu fighting, Kungfu Fighting and Kong Fu Fighting... Six different names on it.

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blaniq wrote:
last month

yeeeaaaahhhh:)) hu! ha!

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basstet wrote:
last month

Cool!

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Davidhazeldine wrote:
last month

amzing

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babyjesus07 wrote:
June 2008

one of the most completely dominant artists of the last 5 decades. hahahaha jk kung fu fighting is good though in a funny way

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Garcian wrote:
May 2008

Run Back streamable? Hell yes.

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hittiperjantai wrote:
May 2008

I like It..I have sing finnish version In karaoke

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eriqk wrote:
January 2008

then what is it

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honcuk wrote:
May 2007

Kung Fu Fighting is not disco track, lol

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OJnotSimpson wrote:
February 2007

Im listening to it now, its the only CD song I have. How incredibly shocking

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CptWenis wrote:
November 2006

Wow. I wonder what his best known song is.

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IamFlood wrote:
August 2006

Too bad it only has had 19 plays in the last 6 months.

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Tr1xx wrote:
May 2006

KFF is NOT a UK one hit wonder. Run Back was also a damn good disco track & was in the UK charts for 10 weeks

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