Kiki Dee

Released: November 27, 1973

Songwriter: Bernie Taupin Elton John

Producer: Elton John Clive Franks

You came walking by where I was sitting pretty
Said, "Hey, babe, do you want to dance with me?"
And I noticed that you acted kind of funky
As if somehow you were trying to be

Supercool, no one's fool, just a rolling stone
Acting out your party piece
In Valentino tones

Smoking untipped cigarettes
And calling me a doll
Sometimes I really wonder
If you're happening at all

Oh, supercool, I gotta lose you
And your hip asides
All this fair out, yeah, yeah, right on, baby
Teenage talking jive

Supercool, go back to school
Let's keep the whole thing clean
As you would say in your sweet way
You're really not my scene

You cocked your brand-new felt hat to one side
Like Bogart used to do on the screen
You've got to realize that I'm a big girl
Older enough to know you're early in your teens

Pauline Matthews better known as Kiki Dee, is an English singer.

She kicked around Britain as a white soul singer for the better part of the late ‘60s and early '70s – even becoming the first British Caucasian signed to Motown – before hooking up with Elton John, who signed her to his Rocket Records label and produced her first notable hit, “I’ve Got the Music in Me.”

In 1976, at which time John was the biggest pop star in the world, he wrote and duetted with Dee on the single “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” which promptly topped the charts all over the world. It did not, however, make Dee a long-term star, though she scored a couple of subsequent hits in England and turned to the stage with some success, especially by starring in Blood Brothers in the West End.

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