Love Lifts Us Up: A Collection 1968-83 Love Lifts Us Up: A Collection 1968-83 Love Lifts Us Up: A Collection 1968-83 is a compilation album by singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes. It collects fourteen songs from Warnes' first five studio albums, two non-album singles and four tracks from motion picture soundtracks. It includes the hits "Right Time of the Night", which reached No. 6 on the "Billboard" singles chart, "I Know a Heartache When I See One", which peaked at No. 19, and "Up Where We Belong", a duet with Joe Cocker from the 1982 movie "An Officer and a Gentleman", which stayed at No. 1 for three weeks.
Up Where We Belong label also had reservations about the number of slow ballads included on the new project. Another producer was brought in to give the album a different tone, and the result was the 1984 release "Civilized Man". Peaking at number 133 on the "Billboard" 200, it was his lowest charting studio album in the US at that point. Capitol had been responsible for rejuvenating the careers of Tina Turner and Heart in the mid-80s, so a push was on to do so for their new client with his next project, the 1986 album "Cocker". Capitol's vice president of a&r, Don Grierson,