Question: who sings you're the best around from karate kid
Answer: `` You 're the Best '' is a song , performed by Joe Esposito and written by Bill Conti ( music ) and Allee Willis ( lyrics ) , which came to prominence as the music to the All - Valley Karate Championships montage in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid in which the protagonist , Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio ) , proves a surprisingly formidable contender .