Karen Young<\/title><link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/bands-and-artists\/info.php?id=karen-young\"\/><link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/stylesheets\/main.css\" type=\"text\/css\"\/><\/head><body id=\"wp_automatic_ReadabilityBody\"> <br \/>\n <\/p>\n<div id=\"wrap\">\n<h2>ABOUT<\/h2>\n<p>Karen Young (March 23, 1951 – January 26, 1991) was a disco singer from Philadelphia, PA who became famous during the late 1970s. She is best known for the 1978 Top 40 R&B hit, “Hot Shot,” which was featured in the soundtracks to “Reversal Of Fortune” (1990) and “The Times Of Bill Cunningham” (2020).<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div id=\"artist_data\">\n<div id=\"artist_data_row\">\n<div id=\"artist_data_cell_LHS\">\n<p><b>Best known songs (with years) include:<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"artist_data_cell_RHS\">\n<p><b>Pop charts debut year:<\/b> 1978<\/p>\n<p><b>Years active:<\/b> 1970-1991<\/p>\n<p><b>Genres:<\/b> Disco<\/p>\n<p><b>Labels:<\/b> West End, Altra Moda Music<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>MERCHANDISE<\/h2>\n<p class=\"textdisclosure\">Disclosure: The following links will take you to various online merchants outside of allbutforgottenoldies.net that sell recordings and other merchandise for the performing artist featured on this page. Please note that these are referral or affiliate links from which allbutforgottenoldies.net may receive, at no additional cost to you, a commission if you should make any purchases through them.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/images\/amazon\/amazon86.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" width=\"86\" alt=\"amazon.com\"\/> CDs, MP3s<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/images\/style-sheets\/ss2007\/audio.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"12\" width=\"12\" alt=\"audio clip\"\/>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Karen-Young\/e\/B000AQ1EV8\/?tag=all4oldies01-20\">Karen Young<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr\/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/images\/musicstack\/musicstack3.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"39\" width=\"144\" alt=\"Search 25 million records at MusicStack\"\/> Vinyl Records, LPs, CDs and Rare Albums. Out of Print Music Albums and Imports<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicstack.com\/show.cgi?aid=all4oldies&currency=USD&find=karen+young\">karen young <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr\/>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t <br \/>\n <br \/>\n\t <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n <br \/>\n<\/body><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allbutforgottenoldies.net\/bands-and-artists\/info.php?id=karen-young\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Young ABOUT Karen Young (March 23, 1951 – January 26, 1991) was a disco singer from Philadelphia, PA who became famous during the late 1970s. She is best known for the 1978 Top 40 R&B hit, “Hot Shot,” which was featured in the soundtracks to “Reversal Of Fortune” (1990) and “The Times Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1593,1417],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-karen","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theguitar.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}