Download Instrumental    Work a cruise ship and this will be your opening number in the show room every night.  I don’t know why cruise lines love their evening productions to start with something that has nothing to do with “cruising”, but this is quite an exciting piece to start the festivities.  Hopefully, you’ve got a great show to back it up ( and the end of the song is classic drama that just screams “it’s show time!” – wait for it).  The piano line is fun throughout the whole song, so I didn’t complain.  I remember we had a “chick” lead guitar player at the time who also sang the lead.  She absolutely killed it!  Ah, those were the days…

Pauline Matthews had a hit with “I’ve Got the Music in Me” in 1974.  You might know her best by the name Kiki Dee, or you might not.  She’s a mediocre singer but an exquisite screamer in the style of Aretha Franklin.  The term “blue-eyed soul singer” certainly applies to Ms. Dee.  She began her career as a backup singer for artists like Dusty Springfield and Elton John (she knew who to hang out with).  Her keyboardist wrote this tune for her and it sailed to #19 on the British charts and stayed there for 8 weeks.  If it hadn’t been for Elton John doing a duet with her to “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart”, she would have faded away into the land of “one-hit wonders”.

But this one is a great opener, whether you’re doing a cruise ship or a local honky-tonk.  So it’s worth consideration here and should certainly be in your set list somewhere.  You can watch Kiki perform it below.  You might notice the end of the song is rather elusive – she just doesn’t know when to quit.  It’s SHOW TIME, boys and girls!