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 song needed to be on store shelves if it was to coincide with the opening of the film. Cocker said, "The song was recorded within a matter of hours. "Sheffield Steel" – I spent a year on that. And the single eclipsed it overnight." But even ignoring its success, Blackwell was bothered by the fact that the duet wasn't R&B, which is what he was aiming for on "Sheffield Steel". Stewart Levine produced Cocker's next LP, which was intended for Island, but, the singer revealed, as with the duet, Blackwell hated it, so Cocker left Island for Capitol. The new