# Another identify this song **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 7, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837 "2000-05-07T17:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/1 "2000-05-07T17:27:20Z")
Please, please, help me! A friend and I are searching for the name and artist of a particular song, and I swore to him that someone here would have the answer. The reputation of the entire board rests on your shoulders. Don’t make me look bad! In the Jackie Chan movie “Rumble in the Bronx”, there is a song that that plays during the outtakes at the end, in which you can clearly hear the name “Jackie Chan” mentioned several times. What is this song? Anybody own the soundtrack? Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/2 "2000-05-07T17:52:39Z")
This may help you: [http://www3.imusic.com/soundtracks/music/rumbleinthebronx.html](http://www3.imusic.com/soundtracks/music/rumbleinthebronx.html) They have Real Audio clips on this page - perhaps they will help you find what you desire. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/3 "2000-05-07T17:59:38Z")
They didn’t have a sample of the actual song I was looking for, but I appreciate the help anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/4 "2000-05-07T18:18:26Z")
I HAVE FOUND IT! For those interested, and those who aren’t, the song is “Kung Fu Fighting” by KMFDM. It’s great. Check it out. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/5 "2000-05-07T18:33:13Z")
“Kung Fu Fighting” was originally a huge song for one-hit wonder Carl Douglas in 1974. (Inexplicitly, his follow-up record, “Dance the Kung Fu”, failed to make the Top 40). If they are starting to dredge up 70s songs like this then be afraid–be very afraid. No doubt songs like “I’ve Never Been to Me” are lurking just out of view in the shadows… ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/6 "2000-05-07T18:41:27Z")
Breck, No offense, but how old are you? If “Kung Fu Fighting” is indeed the song you were talking about, It was originally done by Carl Douglas ( can you say 1 hit wonder?)in 1974. He followed it with the mildly sucessful “Dance the Kung Fu”. Jeeze, respect the classics, please! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/7 "2000-05-07T19:06:25Z")
Somebody _covered_ “Kung Fu Fighting”? Yaaaaagh. What is this world coming to??? What’s next, “Cherokee People”? “Disco Duck”? The Terry Jacks song-that-shall-not-be-named? Makes me want to cry. ---
**Author:** ![fippo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@fippo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fippo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/8 "2000-05-07T19:56:28Z")
Uh, if I’m remembering correctly, the song at the end of Rumble in the Bronx is not KMFDM. It’s a band called Ash doing the song “Jackie Chan”. But maybe that’s a different Jackie Chan movie? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/9 "2000-05-07T20:12:35Z")
Ash’s song is definitely in the soundtrack, though I don’t know where it appears in the movie (which I haven’t seen). But it isn’t called “Jackie Chan” - it’s called “Kung Fu.” Great band btw. ---
**Author:** ![fippo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2bfe46/32.png) [@fippo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fippo)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/10 "2000-05-07T20:21:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Ash’s song is definitely in the soundtrack, though I don’t know where it appears in the movie (which I haven’t seen). But it isn’t called “Jackie Chan” - it’s called “Kung Fu.” > > Great band btw. > > \*\* Whoops. You’re right, it is called “Kung Fu”. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/11 "2000-05-07T21:25:15Z")
Okay, let me clear up a few things. The song is not Carl Douglas’ ‘Kung Fu Fighting’. It sounds nothing like it. The two have nothing in common. However, “Kung Fu Fighting” and KMFDM were the results given to me by Napster when I typed in “Rumble in the Bronx”. It gave me several results, and they all had the same artist and title. I only downloaded one of these, but it was in fact the song I was searching for. Therefore, I am assuming that it is the song’s name and artist, or else there are a lot of _very_ confused Napster users who like Jackie Chan movies. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/12 "2000-05-07T21:46:15Z")
Ash are an Irish indie band who started out as a teen trio in the early 1990s, and **Kung Fu** was a single released around 1995. Check [here](http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=A218055) for All-Music’s entry for the single and [here](http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B144332) for the entry on the band… …and just to complete the extraneous information, [here’s](http://www.amh-ash.freeserve.co.uk/lyrics/kungfu.htm) the lyrics to the song. ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2000, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-identify-this-song/18837/13 "2000-05-08T01:35:12Z")
Thanks, mattk. That settles it. I’m immediately editing the MP3 to show the correct artist (because I’m anal like that).