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 was so moved, I was hollering out loud with joy, jumping up and down ... After a difficult battle with drugs and alcohol, Joe was in total command once again. I knew at that moment that I would sing with Joe." Meanwhile, plans were being made for "An Officer and a Gentleman" to be distributed by Paramount Pictures, and studio executive Frank Mancuso was insistent upon having some kind of music to use to promote the film. The director of the film, Taylor Hackford, was also interested in producing an original title song to help market it, but there was