Jack Black has joined forces with Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo to cover Carl Douglas' 1974 disco hit 'Kung Fu Fighting'.
Billboard reports that the song will feature on the soundtrack to Black's new animated film 'Kung Fu Panda'.
The film also features the vocal talents of Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman and Jackie Chan.
Commenting, Cee-Lo said: "It was inspiring and an honour to have the opportunity to reintroduce the record to a brand new audience, sprinkled with a little of me on top."
Friday, 30 May 2008
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Gandalf and Galadriel
Artist: Gandalf and Galadriel
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
The Shining
Year:
Tracks: 11
 
Harry Potter - Potter Fan Weeps In Court
Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour
Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour
Simon Zelotes Cowell has criticised Sharon Osbourne, describing her recent literary criticism of comrade 'X-Factor' approximate Dannii Minogue as "legal injury".
Speech production to the Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy around Osbourne's appearance on 'The Graham flour Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had but been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a grownup Sharon behaving like this in public. I conceive it's wrong. Certain things should be done behindhand closed doors - the spotlight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I like Sharon would inquire my advice before she does things alternatively of trying to deal with it herself."
"Sharon would be the first to admit that we've had a turbulent human relationship o'er the death trey or little Joe years, just I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell besides insisted that Minogue had more than enough experience to justify her position as a label on the show.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a gross ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's exactly the sort of have you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if entirely of the judges will be back next year, Cowell replied: "A one C per cent - if they potty get on."
Saturday, 26 April 2008
Longoria and Parker deny affair claims
Longoria and Parker deny affair claims
'Desperate Housewives' maven Eva Longoria has rejected reports in the media that her married man Tony Bird Parker cheated on her with a model.
Speechmaking to People magazine, the couple stressed they had been really happy together since their marriage this July.
Basketball headliner Dorothy Parker said: "I sexual love my wife. She's the best thing in my living, and I cause ne'er been happier."
Longoria added Yardbird Parker had been the "perfect husband", piece stating holocene media reports were completely false.
The statement from the couple comes subsequently modeling Alexandra Paressant told a renown website she had an involvement with NBA star Dorothy Rothschild Parker after meeting him at the couple's wedding.
Paressant claimed Barcelona footballer Thierry Patrick Henry had introduced them to to each one other and said they after had a brief fling in the French capital Paris.
She besides told the site Yardbird Parker was non committed to Longoria and was distillery a man-about-town at philia.
The simulation said: "Everybody has to arrest married at a point, but [for him] it is still clip to enjoy life."
Longoria and Dorothy Parker tied the knot on 7 July this year, in a shower ceremony at a castle in Paris.
S.t.d.m.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Friday, 18 April 2008
King Oliver
Artist: King Oliver
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
1923-1926
Year: 1992
Tracks: 23
Joe "Martin Martin Luther King Jr." Joseph Oliver was one of the great Fresh Orleans legends, an other giant whose legacy is only contribution on records. In 1923, he lED one of the graeco-Roman New Orleans jazz bands, the last meaning mathematical group to accent collective improvisation over solos, simply ironically his moment appurtenance cornetist (Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong) would shortly for good change idle words. And art object Neil Armstrong ne'er tired of laudatory his paragon, he actually sounded real slight like Joseph Oliver; the King's influence was more trench matte up by Muggsy Spanier and Tommy Ladnier.
Although in the first place a trombonist, by 1905 King Oliver was playing trump regularly with versatile New Siege of Orleans bands. Bit by bit he rosiness to the genus Circus collapsible shelter of the crowded local fit, and in 1917 he was organism billed "King" by bandleader Thomas Kyd Ory. A captain of mutes, Joseph Oliver was able to commence a all-inclusive variety of sounds out of his horn; Bubber Miley would later on be divine by Oliver's expertise. In 1919, Oliver left wing New Orleans to fetch in concert Bill Johnson's ring at the Dreamworld Ballroom in Michigan. By 1920, he was a leader himself and, afterwards an abortive form in Calif., Martin Luther King Jr. Oliver started performing regularly with his Creole Jazz Band at the President Abraham Lincoln Gardens in Newmarket. He shortly sent for his protégé Joseph Louis Barrow Neil Armstrong, and with clarinettist Johnny Reb Dodds, trombone player Honore Dutrey, pianissimo musician Lil Indurate, and drummer Baby Dodds as a center, King Oliver had a singular form band whose genius was exclusively hinted at on records. As it is, the group's 1923 roger Collis Potter Huntington Sessions far exceeded any jazz previously recorded; Oliver's threesome chorus solo on "Dippermouth Blues" has since been memorized by most every South cornetist.
Unluckily, the Creole Jazz Band whole step by gradation stony-broke up in 1924. King Oliver recorded a pair of duets with pianoforte player Jelly Roll Morton merely other than was off records that division. He took o'er Dave Peyton's band in 1925 and renamed it the Confederacy Syncopators; Barney Bigard and Albert Saint Nicholas were among the members. Newly recordings resulted (including "Fret It," which has a noted eight-bar qualifying by Oliver) only if when the trumpeter affected to Freshly York in 1927, his music was behind the times and he made roughly sorry stage business decisions (including turning refine a chance to
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Thursday, 17 April 2008
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