Then it’s a quick run down Broad to Washington to 10th to League to Ninth Street, where Rocky is greeted by cheering fans-and a flaming barrel, obviously. I figure Rocky exited at East Gurney, took East Sterner to Lehigh Avenue, which he took to Broad. Sure, pass by the Italian Market when you’re just a few feet away from it, then double all the way back from Kensington to run through it again. One great aspect of being Rocky is the train engineers merely say “Go Rocky!” instead of “Get the hell out of here before I call the cops! He exits shortly down onto East Gurney Street, where at least today there is a seemingly good spot to leave. (Today, all the tracks have been removed except one.) Rocky runs on the tracks until the bridge on Kensington Ave that carries the El. Then Fourth to Callowhill to Delaware Avenue (It wasn’t Columbus Boulevard then!) Delaware Avenue to Beach Street to Richmond to Schirra and back to Beach, which dead ends to a spot to sneak on to the train tracks. Here’s the route I imagined Rocky took: His house on Lambert to Passyunk, which he took all the way down to South Street. Yeah, so Rocky goes from deep South Philly to … running on the train tracks adjacent to Lehigh Avenue on the Richmond/Fishtown/Kensington border! Not so safe, and also incredibly far from South Philly. Scene 2: Lehigh Avenue train right-of-way Rocky begins his run with a leap off the porch and over the railing. In the second film, Rocky marries Adrian and they move to a house in South Philadelphia’s Girard Estates section, a home that was recently up for sale. Scene 1: Rocky’s house, 2313 South Lambert Street However, I’m not sure she could take Rocky in a footrace, at least Rocky II-era Rocky. She’s a better runner than I am, so I trust her. All distances were mapped out by using the USA Track and Field distance-measuring tool recommended to me by my friend and Philadelphia magazine managing editor Annie Monjar. I pieced together the routes Rocky could have traveled from scene to scene in this training montage and calculated distance. That old warhorse's still got some juice.But, I wondered, what if this roadwork were treated as one actual run? How far would Rocky go? Well, I decided to find out. James Brown's "Living in America" (from Rocky IV ) has aged rather well, but the compilers realized Bill Conti's proto-disco score for the first installment still fares the best, and so five tracks are pulled from it (compared to just one from Rocky V ). But that also means that we zig-zag back and forth in the Rocky saga. Oddly, the sequencing isn't chronological, maybe so the two best-known tracks-the original theme and Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," from Rocky III -could start off the CD with a one-two punch. No matter whether or not you think Sylvester Stallone should have gone back to the Rocky trough one more time, this soundtrack is fun because it's basically a collection of music from all the past movies in the saga, ending with Three 6 Mafia's rap contribution to Rocky Balboa, "It's a Fight." The CD starts off with Bill Conti's "Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)," which remains so totally awesome that we can only bow to its 1970s brilliance a 2006 remix tagged on at the end doesn't improve on it. International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions. Gonna Fly Now (John X Remix) (2006 Digital Remaster) Overture (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster) Rocky's Reward (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster)Īlone In The Ring (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster)Ĭan't Stop The Fire (2006 Digital Remaster) Redemption (Theme From Rocky II) (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster)įanfare For Rocky (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster)īurning Heart (From "Rocky IV") (2006 Digital Remaster)Ĭonquest (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster)Īdrian (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster) Going The Distance (Instrumental) (2006 Digital Remaster) Gonna Fly Now (Theme From "Rocky") (2006 Digital Remaster)
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