Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes Up Where We Belong on Solid Gold

Up Where We Belong remastered HQ is performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes on Solid Gold Countdown 1982. Written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings, the song was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Warnes was recommended to sing a song from the film because of her previous soundtrack successes, and she had the idea for the song to be a duet that she would perform with Cocker. Jennings selected various sections of the score by Nitzsche and Sainte-Marie in creating the structure of the song and added lyrics about the struggles of life and love and the obstacles that people attempt to dodge. It was released in July of that year to coincide with the release of the film.

The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and topped the charts in several other countries. It also sold more than one million copies in the US and was recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the Songs of the Century. Cocker and Warnes were awarded the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Nitzsche, Sainte-Marie, and Jennings won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Despite the song's success, some industry observers believed it took Cocker away from his musical roots.

The Solid Gold TV broadcast on February 15, 1983 was hosted by Rex Smith and Marilyn McCoo with other guest artists Air Supply, Laura Branigan, Michael McDonald, John Cougar Mellencamp, Sheena Easton, The Go-Go's, Hall and Oats, Survivor, Men At Work, The Motels, Juice Newton, Olivia Newton-John, Quarterflash, Lionel Richie, Rick Springfield - DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS, and Melissa Manchester.

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