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Up Where We Belong
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| "Up Where We Belong" | ||
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| Single by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes | ||
| from the album An Officer and a Gentleman Original Soundtrack | ||
| B-side(s) | Sweet Lil' Woman (Joe Cocker) | |
| Released | 1982 | |
| Genre | Ballad | |
| Label | Island Records | |
| Writer(s) | Jack Nitzsche Buffy Sainte-Marie Will Jennings |
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"Up Where We Belong" is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
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The single, released by Island Records in 1982[1], became a number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 6, 1982 and kept the position for three weeks.
"'Up Where We Belong" won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983. It also won the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Original Song in 1984. Cocker and Warnes also won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1983 for their rendition of this song.
Ironically, producer Don Simpson unsuccessfully demanded "Up Where We Belong" to be cut from An Officer and a Gentleman, saying, "The song is no good. It isn't a hit." [2]
The song was part of the An Officer and a Gentleman Original Soundtrack, and was later released as part of The Best of Joe Cocker (1993).
In 1991, it was re-released as a Jennifer Warnes CD-single alongside "First We Take Manhattan" and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".[1]
- The songs' composer, Buffy Sainte-Marie, did a cover of the song for her album Up Where We Belong[3] and the TV special of the same name, the only time she performed the song live herself. [4]
- It was covered on Gimme a Break! by Nell Carter and Kris Kristofferson.
- A cover version of the song was featured in The Simpsons' episode Life on the Fast Lane, the final sequence of which is a parody of An Officer and a Gentleman.
- Also part of the song is featured in the 'Elephant Love Medley' in the 2001 Academy Award-winning musical production of Moulin Rouge!
- The melody from "Up Where We Belong" has also been used as a 'company jingle' by the German airline Lufthansa in 1992 for marketing and recruitment purposes.
- BeBe & CeCe Winans have performed a Christian version of this song, with "Love will lift us up..." replaced by "Lord, lift us up...".
- Bo Bice and Carrie Underwood performed this as their duet on American Idol.
- ^ a b Jennifer Warnes, official home site
- ^ IMDB - Trivia for An Officer and a Gentleman
- ^ Buffy Sainte-Marie - Up Where We Belong
- ^ Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong at the Internet Movie Database
| Preceded by "Who Can It Be Now?" by Men at Work |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single November 6, 1982- November 20, 1982 |
Succeeded by "Truly" by Lionel Richie |
| Preceded by "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" from Arthur |
Academy Award for Best Original Song 1982 |
Succeeded by "Flashdance... What a Feeling" from Flashdance |
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