This is the song that players during the scene where Goldie Hawk proves herself to her team by outrunning every single one of them in a last man standing marathon. This is just one of those scenes in an 80s movie that sticks with you when you are a kid.
Much like Break the Ice (from Rad), and even You're The Best (from The Karate Kid), this scene is punctuated with a track that was made custom for the movie. It appears that the composer for the film's Score, James Newton Howard was teamed up with a couple of song writers, and armed with the vocal talent of Mavis Staples. Interestingly, Mavis doesn't appear to have been on the radar, or working on any albums that I can see around the time. I wonder how she became involved in this track at all. Regardless, she killed it.
This is another track that might be seen as a little light on FM, but that's kind of the idea, sometimes. So much FM found it's way in to the background of really iconic music. In this case, I am fairly certain this is a Synclavier path being layered in the background of an analog synth bass. Was it the metallic punch it provided that everyone just couldn't get enough of, that they would have to layer it in the background of other instruments?
In any case, this is a cool example of when song writers, film composers, and performers come together to make some magic happen.
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