Through this loophole, Atari 7800 conversions of Mario Bros., Double Dragon, Commando, Rampage, Xenophobe, Ikari Warriors and Kung Fu Master were licensed and developed.

Claims have been made for Manu Dibango's " Soul Makossa " ( 1972 ), Jerry Butler's " One Night Affair " ( 1972 ), the Hues Corporation's " Rock the Boat " ( 1973 ), George McCrae's " Rock Your Baby " ( 1974 ), and " Kung Fu Fighting " ( 1974 ) by Biddu and Carl Douglas.

The same year saw the release of " Kung Fu Fighting ", performed by Carl Douglas and produced by Biddu, which reached # 1 in both the U. K. and U. S., and became the best-selling single of the year and one of the best-selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold worldwide, helping to popularize disco music to a great extent.

His fight with Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu master William Cheung in 1986, at a seminar in Germany, caused controversy in the wider Wing Chun community.

* Kung Fu ( Season 1, Episode 15 (" The Ancient Warrior ")) ( 1973 )

The incorporation of empty-handed Chinese Kung Fu into Okinawan martial arts occurred partly because of these exchanges and partly because of growing legal restrictions on the use of weaponry.

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( 1973 ) a Chinese Kung Fu film was transformed by redubbing into an epistle on state capitalism and Proletarian revolution.

These films were widely broadcast on North American television on weekend timeslots that were often colloquially known as Kung Fu Theater, Black Belt Theater, or variations thereof.

In addition, western animation has ventured into the genre with the most successful effort being the internationally hailed DreamWorks Animation film franchise, Kung Fu Panda, starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie.

Kung Fu films are a significant movie genre in themselves.

As the most prestigious movie type in Chinese film history, Kung Fu movies were among the first Chinese films produced and the wuxia period films ( 武俠片 ) are the original form of Chinese Kung Fu films.

Shang-Chi () is a Marvel Comics character, often called the " Master of Kung Fu ".

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

No characters from the Kung Fu television series carried over into the comic series, though the character Lu Sung, in an early issue, bears a strong resemblance to Kwai Chang Caine with the addition of a moustache.

Shang-Chi appeared again in issue # 16, and with issue # 17 ( April 1974 ) the title was changed to The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu.

Shang-Chi also appeared in Marvel's Special Collector's Edition # 1 entitled " Savage Fists of Kung Fu ".

He also appeared quite prominently in Marvel's sister imprint magazine entitled Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.

Shang-Chi had two more short series: the Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black graphic novel ( 1990 ) and the MAX miniseries Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse ( 2002 ) ( with artist Paul Gulacy on art again ).

In November 2007 she released a mini-album of Welsh language songs Awyren = Aeroplane on the My Kung Fu label.

" That year Escalante and Fitzgerald also founded the record label Kung Fu Records, initially created in order to release an album by the Riverside band Assorted Jelly Beans.

It was released in 1996 by their label Kung Fu Records, who also re-released it in 2000 with altered artwork and a bonus track.

Because Kung Fu Records itself had been formed in 1996 and was at this point still a small label, the original pressing of the album was somewhat limited and it remained relatively obscure for several years ( the band's major studio albums at this time were being released by Nitro Records ).

The roadie gave the tape to Joe Escalante, bassist from the band The Vandals who owned their own label, Kung Fu Records.

The Ataris signed to Kung Fu and the label passed the tape along to various drummers.

is a live concert DVD series produced by Kung Fu Films, an offshoot of the Kung Fu Records label run by Vandals bassist Joe Escalante, who also acts as producer for the series.

Kung Fu Records is an American independent record label founded in 1996 by Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald of the punk rock band The Vandals.

In 2000 Escalante started Kung Fu Films as a subsidiary of the music label in order to release DVDs of live concerts, music videos, band documentaries, and independent films.

In 2005 Kung Fu also spawned the spinoff label Broken Sounds Records, focusing on hardcore releases.

Escalante named the label after his study of Kung Fu San Soo, and its first release was a split single featuring both The Vandals and Assorted Jelly Beans.

It was at this time that Escalante launched the subsidiary label Kung Fu Films ( see below ).

With their contractual obligations to their longtime label Nitro Records complete, The Vandals also moved their operations fully over to Kung Fu, re-releasing Oi to the World!

Their first new studio album for Kung Fu was Internet Dating Superstuds in 2002, by which time more bands had signed to the label including Audio Karate, Ozma, Tsunami Bomb, and Mi6.

In recent years there has been less activity from the Kung Fu Records label, as Escalante has focused his attention on Kung Fu Films releases and on his new career as a morning radio show host.

In 2000 Escalante started Kung Fu Films as an offshoot of the label with the release of the independent film That Darn Punk, in which he starred.

These have included bands signed to Kung Fu Records such as The Vandals and Tsunami Bomb, but more often have branched outside the label to include groups such as Alkaline Trio, Guttermouth, Reel Big Fish, the Circle Jerks, and The Bouncing Souls.

Such international distribution is not common for American independent record labels, and has allowed Kung Fu to put its stamp on albums by notable artists who are not signed to the label.

Much like other independent record labels, Kung Fu has released a series of low-priced compilation samplers designed to draw attention to the label.

With their Kung Fu label ( founded in 1996 by Vandals members Joe Escalante and Warren Fitzgerald ) now firmly established, the band was able to re-release this music from ten years earlier in their career.

* Record label: Kung Fu Records

The label also had major hits with Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra, Love Unlimited, Carl Douglas ( best known for the song " Kung Fu Fighting "), Edwin Starr, Stephanie Mills, Leon Haywood, Carl Carlton and the Star Wars soundtrack in 1977.