The Song made famous by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes from the movie An Officer and a Gentleman.
Producer Don Simpson unsuccessfully demanded
Up Where We Belong be cut from An Officer and a Gentleman, saying, "The song is no good.
It isn't a hit".
Up Where We Belong be cut from An Officer and a Gentleman, saying, "The song is no good.
It isn't a hit".
The single, released by Island Records in 1982, became a number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 6, 1982 and kept the position for three weeks, also reaching number 7 in the
UK Singles Chart.
UK Singles Chart.
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.
Buffy recorded an album called Coincidence and Likely Stories with the opening track called The Big Ones Get Away.
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.
Buffy recorded an album called Coincidence and Likely Stories with the opening track called The Big Ones Get Away.
Well, at least Up Where We Belong didn't.
It's up there with the best of them all;-)
And if you get a chance to listen to her latest album
Running for the Drum, I think you'll want that one in your CD collection ... it's now in mine.
Running for the Drum, I think you'll want that one in your CD collection ... it's now in mine.
Have always liked 'Up Where We Belong' and also Joe Cocker's voice. Didn't realise that Buffy Sainte-Marie was the writer, haven't heard her sing this before - so thanks!
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