Up Where We Belong Up Where We Belong "Up Where We Belong" is a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings that 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 Nitsche and Sainte-Marie in creating the structure of the song and added lyrics about the struggles of life and love
Right Time of the Night "Record Mirror" magazine's "Starbreaker" chart - the equivalent of the "Bubbling Under" chart in "Billboard" - although the single would not advance into the official UK Top 50. "Right Time..." would be reissued in the UK in February 1983: Arista, who had dropped Warnes from its roster in 1982, replaced the original B-side "Daddy Don't Go" with "I'm Restless" a track from Warnes' 1979 album release "Shot Through the Heart". Warnes' duet with Joe Cocker: "Up Where We Belong" (on Island Records), was in the UK Top Ten in February 1983 but this apparently failed to afford any prestige to