Joe ”Bean” Esposito: ”You’re The Best” (Bill & Frank Go To The Movies: The Karate Rock Universe - The Karate Kid / Rocky III)

We continue our special series on movie music with one of the great montage sequence songs in 1980s film: Joe "Bean" Esposito's "You're The Best." We discuss its history (and connections to Rocky III) as well as Esposito's remarkable career. Besides analyzing the song, Frank proposes a crossover series that may be one of the greatest ideas we've had on this podcast: The Karate-Rock Universe.

*Note: Bill realizes now that "Never Surrender" is not from Bloodsport, but Kickboxer. It was too late to fix when he discovered his grave error!

Karate Tournament Montage

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