Rocky song instrumental
The now-classic soundtrack album charted at number 4 on Billboard, with the hit single “Gonna Fly Now” going to the number-one position on the Billboard charts for the week of July 2, 1977. “You Take My Heart Away” left a mark on radio listeners and album buyers. I need not tell you that Cupid’s job here is done. He kisses her on the cheek, she folds into his arms and the duet continues: “You take my heart away … away!” On screen, this passionate scene is played out without Rocky or Adrian undressing. Then, West’s and Pigford’s voices join together in crescendo: “You’re my dream come true / Baby I love you!” Her plea is answered by Pigford: “Love me / Love me from your heart / Let us never part / Bring me all the dreams you thought would never be / We’ll make them all reality / Just you and me.” “Hold me in your arms / Shelter me from harm / Let me love you for a million years or more / I never felt this way before your kiss / You take my heart away … away” “Touch me,” intones West in the opening words.
But the tune serves its purpose in underscoring the fraught emotions the couple tackles in Rocky’s apartment on the night that he kisses Adrian for the first time in the movie. While she ponders, Rocky says, “I could go for some music,” fires up the record player and drops the needle on that ultimate slow jam: “You Take My Heart Away.” Savvy listeners recognize the film version of the song is very different from the soundtrack album. He gets comfortable and undresses down to his A-shirt, stating, “It’s hot in here, ya’ know.” Adrian, on the other hand, is absorbing the situation she’s in. During Adrian and Rocky’s first date scene, after a wintery night out (he calls in a favor to allow her to ice skate at a closed rink while he runs alongside her), they return to his shabby apartment. In the original Rocky, the audience never sees the couple do more than kiss. Likewise, you feel (and envision) Rocky’s emotions as Adrian’s comfort level grows.īut it’s the following song on the soundtrack, the romantic ballad “You Take My Heart Away,” that would go on to become Rocky and Adrian’s signature love theme throughout the Rocky series. From the tentative first piano notes and quiet orchestration of “First Date,” you feel (almost see, really) the shy bespectacled pet store clerk morph into a desirable woman who needs (and deeply wants) the down-but-not-out boxer.