Create an account or log in to save stories. Today's Morning Edition music is from "Gonna Fly Now," the theme song from the hit movie "Rocky," which was No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart 40 years ago.

That summer, the theme tune Gonna Fly Now, with its famous trumpet introduction, would top the US charts. On the 40th anniversary of Rocky, the film's composer Bill Conti, speaking from Los ...

One noticeable omission from every trailer for "Creed," the new movie reviving the famous "Rocky" series, has been the patented theme song. The tune, "Gonna Fly Now," is most widely known for ...

'My career started with show business when I was 16,' said Carol Connors. Elvis Presley was my first boyfriend ... because I'm the first female singer in music history to write a song about a ...

As they arrived at the Caesars Superdome, the Eagles walked out to the theme song from the Rocky movie franchise, "Gonna Fly Now" by Bill Conti. In a video shown at the stadium captured by Yahoo!

That summer, the theme tune Gonna Fly Now, with its famous trumpet introduction, would top the US charts. On the 40th anniversary of Rocky, the film's composer Bill Conti, speaking from Los ...