re: Best thing to come out of each SEC town

Well, I know he wasn't born in Baton Rouge, but Bill Conti apparently came up with a rough draft of the Rocky theme for a class project while studying music at LSU. He was in the Golden Band from Tigerland as well and credits LSU a lot for his musical chops. He did the scores for all but one of the Rocky movies.

I saw a video saying two other people turned down the movie because it didn't really pay anything. He took it and it was so low budget that he had his wife and her co-workers that could sing do the vocals on "Gonna Fly Now" - the main theme. The rest is history.

And he married a Golden Girl...Ding-Ding.

Rocky music > the rest