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“Give It All You Got” is an instrumental song from 1980 by the American flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione. It was written and produced by Mangione, and can be found on his 1979 album Fun and Games. The song was originally featured as the official theme of the 1980 Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid, New York. The TV network ABC had used Mangione’s recordings four years earlier during their coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics, and then-ABC Sports president Roone Arledge asked the musician to create the theme song for the Winter games. Released as a single just before the Olympics, “Give It All You Got” peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1980. The song charted at #32 on the Billboard R&B chart and spent three non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard adult... Read on...