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Kung Fu Fighting and Other Great Love Songs
1974 studio album by Carl Douglas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Reception
The editorial board of AllMusic Guide scored this album three out of five stars, with reviewer Alex Henderson noting that while the two lead singles of the album are novelty songs focusing on disco beats with lyrics about kung fu, "in fact, most of the tracks aren't novelty items" as "other songs have more romantic lyrics and are competent, if unremarkable, examples of Northern soul-pop".[3]
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Track listing
Songwriters are noted next to track titles.
- "Kung Fu Fighting" (Carl Douglas) – 3:15
- "Witchfinder General" (Douglas) – 2:56
- "When You Got Love" (Biddu) – 3:31
- "Changing Times" (Douglas) – 3:00
- "I Want to Give You My Everything" (Larry Weiss) – 2:37
- "Dance the Kung Fu" (Douglas and Biddu) – 3:09
- "Never Had This Dream Before" (Lee Vanderbilt) – 3:10
- "I Don't Care What People Say" (Biddu and Vanderbilt) – 3:36
- "Blue Eyed Soul" (Biddu) – 4:49
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Personnel
- Carl Douglas – vocals
- Stephen Allan – tape operation
- Biddu – production, coordination
- Robin Blanchflower – coordination
- Bones – backing vocals
- Richard Dodd – engineering
- Gerry Shury – arrangement on all songs except "When You Got Love" and "I Don't Care What People Say"
- Pip Williams – arrangement on "When You Got Love" and "I Don't Care What People Say"
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