Best of Jennifer Warnes Arista Records roster, Warnes' post-Arista career already being well underway with the August 1982 release of "Up Where We Belong" Warnes' duet with Joe Cocker which Warnes correctly predicted would afford her a major hit single. Best of Jennifer Warnes Best of Jennifer Warnes is a 1982 compilation album by singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes comprising five of her six "Billboard" Hot 100 singles - including the Top 40 hits "Right Time of the Night" and "I Know a Heartache When I See One" - supplemented by four other tracks also recorded for Arista Records. In addition the album gave Warnes' recording
Up Where We Belong truth to it. It was so unlikely, because Joe has this well-known, very raw, masculine energy. I was less well known and had this very vulnerable, quintessential female energy and we were very polarized, as men and women often are these days. But we met in the middle." The success of "Up Where We Belong" was not without its drawbacks for Cocker. He admitted that Island Records owner Chris Blackwell also hated the song and wasn't interested in releasing it. They had put out Cocker's first project for the label, "Sheffield Steel", in June 1982, just a month before the