Right Time of the Night Hot 100 entries for Jennifer Warnes as a soloist and would remain her most successful solo hit, her one further Top 40 hit "I Know a Heartache When I See One" peaking at #19 in 1979. However Warnes was to twice reach #1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 as a duo member, first with Joe Cocker on "Up Where We Belong" (1982) and then with Bill Medley on "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (1987). "Right Time of the Night" had a 4 March 1977 UK single release, garnering sufficient interest that in May 1977 "Right Time..." ranked on
Up Where We Belong 100 at that point was the number six hit "Right Time of the Night" from 1977. Her soundtrack credits included the Oscar-nominated "One More Hour" from "Ragtime" and the Oscar-winning "It Goes Like It Goes" from "Norma Rae", which, like the Hackford film, also had a lead female character who worked in a factory. Hackford initially rejected the idea of Warnes singing a song for "An Officer and a Gentleman" "because he felt she had too sweet a sound," but Warnes met with Sill and discussed the possibility of doing so: "I suggested to Joel that I sing on that