Right Time of the Night Hot 100 entries for Jennifer Warnes as a soloist and would remain her most successful solo hit, her one further Top 40 hit "I Know a Heartache When I See One" peaking at #19 in 1979. However Warnes was to twice reach #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as a duo member, first with Joe Cocker on "Up Where We Belong" (1982) and then with Bill Medley on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (1987). "Right Time of the Night" had a 4 March 1977 UK single release, garnering sufficient interest that in May 1977 "Right Time..." ranked on
Up Where We Belong Best Original Song. They also won the BAFTA film award for Best Original Song in 1984. On the Songs of the Century list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001 the song was listed at number 323. In 2004 it finished at number 75 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, and in 2016 one of the duo's live renditions of the song was listed at number 18 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the 20 Greatest Best Song Oscar Performances. Warnes and Cocker kept to an agreement that they would never lip-sync