See the full interview with Jim Peterik at along with past installments. In partnership with Nashville Songwriters Association International, each week we will release a video interview with a songwriter about his or her work. and that demo version was the one that went in the film. You didn’t write me a third verse.” Busted. But he said, “You got a little lazy on me. We were very inspired by this story, and Burgess Meredith, (who plays) the trainer, going “Rocky, you’re losing the eye of the tiger.” I go, “Bingo. The next day he sent us the whole movie, and that’s when we really got the story. It was like electricity in that room, but we couldn’t get any further because we didn’t know the story. And then the punches were being thrown, and I just went (plays power chords). I just started going (plays chugging guitar intro). I had my Les Paul around my neck, and I just caught that vibe. T rising up, and Stallone getting kind of soft, doing commercials. Frankie came over, and we see this montage that we’re supposed to write to.
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The pressure was on, and the next day I rented a big Betamax Pro (an early video cassette player) and the FedEx came. He said to Tony Scotti, the label manager, “That’s the sound I want for my theme song.” He heard a song called “Poor Man’s Son” from our “Premonition” album, which is very street, very raw, (singer) Dave Bickler just giving it up. Includes the iconic theme Gonna fly now by Bill Conti, Survivor with Eye of the tiger and James Brown with Coming to America. Can you help me out?” I go, “Uh, is the Pope Catholic?” Rocky - Soundtracks (1-6) Includes highlights from Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979) and Rocky III (1982) but the complete albums from Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990) and Rocky VI (2006).
It’s a good song, but I want something for the kids.
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He says, “I’ve got this new movie called ‘Rocky III,’ and I don’t want to use that ‘Gonna Fly Now’ song. So I call him up, and he answers, “Yo.” I go, “Is this Sylvester Stallone? This is Jim Peterik.” He says, “Yeah, call me Sly.” Suddenly, I’m calling him “Sly” - a kid from Berwyn, Ill.! I was already this huge fan of Stallone anyway, me and my wife. It’s Sylvester Stallone.” I go, “Yeah, right.” I play it back again (and say), “Karen, does this sound like Stallone, or is that just Sal, my roadie?” “No, that’s him.” I hit “Play” and I hear, “Hey, yo, Jim that’s a nice answering machine you got there. I got home one day, and there’s my big, old answering machine. We knew it was something special because we saw that movie in its rough form. Was that day like any other day? When you started this, did you kind of know that you were on to something special? You and Frankie (Sullivan) from Survivor wrote it. Peterik talked to Bart Herbison, executive director of Nashville Songwriters Association International. The song’s co-writer, Jim Peterik, remembers the day Stallone asked him to write a song for his movie - and how the star reacted when he first heard the demo recording. Fans who grew up with the films and are looking for a blast of nostalgia will have their nose broken (in a good, metaphorical kind of way) by this audio companion, while listeners who somehow managed to avoid getting on the Rocky train will wonder what all of the fuss was about.Few “power chords” are more instantly recognizable than the guitar blasts that open Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” The rock hit served as the theme song for the 1982 film “Rocky III,” starring Sylvester Stallone as boxing champion Rocky Balboa. Luckily, there are no tracks from Stallone's lesser brother, Frank, who peppered the soundtrack to Rocky III with some truly dreadful disco/lounge abominations, but that didn't stop the producers from inserting Conti's equally detestable "Can't Stop the Fire" from Rocky V, which should have been replaced with Vince DiCola's "Training Montage" from Rocky IV. That means that for better or for worse, the listener gets an Italian Stallion jukebox stocked with '80s nuggets from Survivor, Robert Tepper, John Cafferty, and James Brown, as well as all of the key themes from the baton of Conti.
By turning Rocky Balboa into a "greatest-hits" collection, Stallone has preserved the American icon in amber without injecting any botox into him, despite the unnecessary inclusion of "panic buttons" like "It's a Fight" by Three 6 Mafia and a remix by John X and Natalie Wilde of composer Bill Conti's timeless "Gonna Fly Now" theme. The soundtrack for Rocky Balboa, the sixth and final installment in Sylvester Stallone's seemingly endless boxing epic, eschews the usual mixture of new score and hip mainstream acts for a museum of old cues and acts that were once mainstream.
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