Monday Music "Born to be alive" by Patrick Hernandez

This is loaded on my scheduler thingie, I am out of town this weekend in Nashville and I will drop a post probably on Tuesday on what we did
I am continuing my string of "bugaloo" songs.  This discussion was started in the "Monster Hunter Nation, Hunters Unite", it is a facebook group with enthusiast of the ILOH "International Lord of Hate" A.K.A Larry Correia.  We were talking about what song would we use if we looked out of our window or glanced at our security camera and saw this.....

One of the alphabet bois lining up to take down your house...What would be your "Valhalla" song and you would set it up to play as you load up magazines and prepare yourself.

"Born to Be Alive" is a song written by French singer Patrick Hernandez. It became a worldwide hit and reached number one on the US Disco chart. It was first conceived as a hard rock song.

While a member of the French group Gold, Hernandez was signed by producer Jean Vanloo and left to Waterloo, Belgium to begin work on a solo album. In November, 1978, the album was released on the Aariana sub-label Aquarius Records (in France). The first single released from the album was "Born to Be Alive". It found immediate success throughout Europe, and in January 1979, Hernandez received his first gold record from Italy.
In early 1979, the album reached the US market with a release on the A-Tom-Mik label and later Columbia Records. The US release contained a remixed version of "Born to Be Alive" and found great success, peaking in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart at #1 and on the Billboard Hot 100 at #16. It sold over one million copies in the US.

 I vaguely remembered the song, but what jarred my memory was when Bacardi Rum used the song for a commercial....

He got an awful lot of living in 24 hours...

A TV ad for Bacardi rum starts with a young fly and an old fly sitting on a park bench. The old fly warns the young one to live life to the fullest, and then he dies. So, young fly goes off and parties across town, until he falls off the ceiling at the end, dying.