
Hit Parade: The B-Sides Edition
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia
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Carl Douglas Kung Fu Fighting
All four of these 1974 chart toppers were somewhat accidental smashes. George McCray was a near defunct vocalist who lucked into singing rock your baby for Harry Wayne Casey of Casey in the sunshine band thing. Nothing from nothing was a sketch of a song that one time Beatles collaborator Billy Preston stumbled on to while playing a piano at an Atlanta nightclub. And finally you ain't seen nothing with its stuttering chorus hook was a song Bachmann Turner overdrives Randy Bachmann formerly of the guess who by the way meant only to record for his brother with a speech impediment never as the national hit it became. I'm going to say D Carl Douglas kung fu fighting.
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