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When "Rocky" pulled off the big upset to win the Oscar for best picture, it had several things that helped this low budget film close the gap with the big Hollywood productions (remember, it was up against "Network," "Taxi Driver," "All the President's Men," and "Bound for Glory"). One of those was the idea that you could "win" without winning, which was a fairly radical idea at the time, but quickly abandoned in the sequels that followed. But one of the key ingredients was the memorable score by Bill Conti. The strength of the score is much more than the "Fanfare for Rocky," although certainlymore… the opening trumpet burst suggested to viewers that they were about to see something special, even when first confronted with the sight of Rocky Balboa taking a pounding as a club fighter. Ultimately, what makes this a great musical score is that it is Conti's music that drives what are arguably the two most memorable sequences in the film: the final training montage and the montage that covers the fight with Apollo Creed between the first and final rounds. In both instances it is the music that carries the moments (although I also want to acknowledge the Oscar winning work of film editors Richard Halsey and Scott Conrad). Even during the final titles, it is the latter stripped down to the eloquent strings that creates the final mood of the audience leaving the theater. "Gonna Fly Now" reached #1 on the pop charts and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Song (it lost to Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams' "Evergreen" from the remake of "A Star is Born") but the score was not even nominated. Jerry Goldsmith won for "The Omen," with Bernard Hermann nominated for both "Taxi Driver" and "Obsession," Jerry Fielding for "The Outlaw Josey Wales," and Lalo Schifrin for "Voyage of the Damned." Conti won eventually win an Oscar for his score for "The Right Stuff," which was another very good score, but "Rocky" is going to be his most memorable one (and not just because the music kept working its way into all the sequels).

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Bill Conti - Rocky (1990) Retail CD

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