Something for Thursday

I’ve been featuring Donna Summer the last few weeks, and then the other day The Wife and I were driving around doing errands and we were listening to 70s On 7 on SiriusXM, where a string of selections made me decide to expand the Donna Summer focus (and I’ll be back to Donna Summer!) to Black Singers of the 1970s. Why? Because a whole damn lot of really good music falls under that description.

We’ll start with a one-hit wonder that’s so infectiously good, and sung so well, that every time I hear it, I wonder why this guy–a singer from Jamaica–only had the one big hit. I’m talking about Carl Douglas, whose song “Kung Fu Fighting” is one of the great disco hits of the 1970s. Sure, the lyrics may be a bit…well…but between the melody and the beat and Douglas’s vocals, it’s one of those songs that makes it impossible to maintain a bad mood while listening to it.