Up Where We Belong just feel it." Hackford said that "the final version was absolute magic—or at least Joel and I thought so." They now had to present this song that they weren't budgeted to make to the executives at Paramount. "When we played it for Michael Eisner and Don Simpson, they hated the record and said it would never be a hit." Simpson even bet Sill $100 that it wouldn't be. Hackford and Sill "called another prominent record executive, who said, 'Forget it. Jennifer Warnes has never had a hit song and Joe Cocker's a has-been. Eisner and Simpson made Hackford "meet with
38 Special (band) paved the way for their platinum supercharged fourth record, "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys" (January 1981), and its big hit "Hold On Loosely" (which reached #27 in 1981). Their next release, "Special Forces" (May 1982), contained the Top 10 smash "Caught Up in You" (just like "Hold On Loosely", composed by Barnes and Carlisi with Peterik) which hit No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Album Rock Tracks chart, as did the single, "If I'd Been the One" (October 1983), from their November 1983 release "Tour de Force". "You Keep Runnin' Away" (August 1982) and "Back Where You Belong" (February 1984) continued the sequence