Gloria Estefan: 'Turn the Beat Around' - The Specialist (1994) OST

"Turn the Beat Around" is a disco song written by Gerald Jackson and Peter Jackson and performed by Vicki Sue Robinson in 1976, originally appearing on her debut album, Never Gonna Let You Go. Released as a single, the song went to #10 on the Billboard pop charts, and #73 on the soul chart. Robinson received a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal. The track went to number one on the disco chart for four weeks. In 1994, the song was re-recorded by Gloria Estefan for the soundtrack to the film 'The Specialist'. Released as a single, it became a hit reaching #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is featured on Estefan's fourth solo album Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me. She sang the song as her opening performance in VH1's first ever Divas Live and took the song to the top spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it her first number-one song on that chart in English.