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
Joe Cocker (album) named 'Joe Cocker'" All song and personnel information gathered from the liner notes of the album "Joe Cocker" (Copyright © 1972 by A&M Records), as issued by A&M Records in the U.S. Joe Cocker (album) Joe Cocker is the third studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1972 in Europe as Something to Say on Cube Records, and in the USA as "Joe Cocker" on A&M Records. It contains the hit single "High Time We Went", that was released in the summer of 1971. "Joe Cocker" signalled Cocker's change of direction into a more jazzy, blues style. The album reached