Today in Music History for Nov. 17: In 1938, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who became Canada's most famous, and arguably most important, pop musician in the late 1960s, was born in Orillia, Ont.

Nothing beats a good ol’ 1970s disco track. And “Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas is one of the most well-loved disco tracks of that era. This song was both born of and created in praise of the ...