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Grammy Award

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This record did not win a Grammy Award, it is not listed in the Grammy Award database of winners. There is also not a Grammy Award category "Best Selling Single" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.52.21.133 (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Mistaken identity

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There is a common mistake on the internet that this song was sung by Foo Fighters (try searching "foo fighters kung fu fighting"). More details here [1]. Senaiboy (talk) 20:44, 6 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this should be mentioned, i was surprised at how many people think the Foo Fighters wrote this which is weird because it sounds nothing like them. This should be mentioned--67.86.119.65 (talk) 14:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

that is b/c foo fighters did cover this song once they did an excellent job of it too there are only a couple spots that dont sound like the original —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.122.154 (talk) 14:32, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Foo Fighters were known for having covered Roberta Flack's 'Killing Me Softly' from 1973, so that may account in part, for the rumors.

Another story going around is the song on the B-side of the original version of Kung Fu Fighting has been said to have been 'Rhinestone Cowboy', which was later performed by Glen Campbell who had a number one hit with it, but the article clearly debunks that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.41.169.177 (talk) 02:36, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also commonly see this song mis-credited to the Bee Gees, which is equally wrong and silly. Some note should probably be made of this phenomenon.174.101.88.221 (talk) 04:28, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to mention that this was the first single I ever bought, and if memory serves, "Witchfinder General" was on the B side...Ah those heady days...82.6.1.85 (talk) 23:12, 17 February 2010 (UTC)Lance Tyrell[reply]

There's a story in Fred Bronson's Book 'The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. "Biddu was looking for a singer to records a tune by Brooklyn songwriter Larry Weiss in the spring of 1974.(...) Thinking that Douglas might be right for Weiss' 'I Want to Give You My Everything', Biddu gave him call". 'I Want to Give You My Everything' was not recorded by Larry Weiss. Larry Weiss is songwriter who wrote the song 'I Want to Give You My Everything'. 'I Want...' was originally recorded by Carl Douglas in 1974. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mireflejo (talk • contribs) 17:30, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Other cover versions

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I just checked — this was done on 4/10/2017 by a single user who boldly removed the two entire sections with the justification "unsourced/badly sourced entries". A contribution I had made earlier had already been removed by then: "The song can be heard in the 1975 French movie Les Galettes de Pont-Aven, during a scene where a young couple is dancing fully naked in front of a drunk Jean-Pierre Marielle."--Abolibibelot (talk) 08:04, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "SEARCH THE ROOTS ARCHIVES – kung fighting". Roots-archives.com. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting Remixes (Dub Drenched Soundscapes) (CD, Album)". Discogs. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  3. ^ LilyElizabeta. "The Supersizers Go... Episode 4: Seventies". YouTube. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

Disco connection

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Several disco-sounding songs appeared on the U.S. charts in 1974, notably Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song), but I don't think that the majority of the American public were aware of disco as a music style until 1975. It seems doubtful that Kung Fu Fighting "popularized disco". AnonMoos (talk) 00:02, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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