"Up Where We Belong ""Up Where We Belong"" is a song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Will Jennings that was recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film ""An Officer and a Gentleman"". Warnes was recommended to sing a song from the film because of her previous soundtrack successes, and she had the idea for the song to be a duet that she would perform with Cocker. Jennings selected various sections of the score by Nitsche and Sainte-Marie in creating the structure of the song and added lyrics about the struggles of life and love"
"comedy film """", the 2015 musical comedy ""Pitch Perfect 2"", the 2018 superhero film ""Deadpool 2"", and the season one finale of the CW's ""Dynasty"". We Belong ""We Belong"" is a song written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro. It was made popular by American rock singer Pat Benatar after being released as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ""Tropico"" (1984). It matched the success of ""Love Is a Battlefield"" on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, peaking at #5. It reached #3 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart and #34 on the Adult"
"Barry Manilow and ""I'll Never Love This Way Again"" for Dionne Warwick. Deana Martin recorded one of Jennings’ songs, “I Know Who You Are” on her 2016 album “Swing Street'.' Jennings has collaborated on many songs for films, the most notable songs being ""Up Where We Belong"" for ""An Officer and a Gentleman"", a song which won the Academy Award in America and the BAFTA (British Academy Award) in the United Kingdom and was a number one hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. In 1997, Jennings wrote the world-wide number one Céline Dion hit ""My Heart Will Go On"""
"with Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes. Used as the end title song to the film ""An Officer and a Gentleman"", “Up Where We Belong” became a #1 pop hit, Grammy winner and Academy Award winner. He then produced Sly and the Family Stone’s début album for Warner Bros. Records. Next came Womack & Womack’s debut ""Love Wars"". In England it quickly became a critic’s darling and a #1 album. Due to the overwhelming success of this album, Levine found himself being courted by many English A&R men, eager for him to work with their artists. He moved to London and"
"singer he had ever worked with. Nitzsche began to concentrate more on film music rather than pop music in the mid-1970s, soon becoming one of the more prolific film orchestrators in Hollywood during the period. In 1983, he received the Academy Award for Best Song for co-writing ""Up Where We Belong"" (from 1982's ""An Officer and a Gentleman"") with Will Jennings and Buffy Sainte-Marie. (Nitzsche had already worked with Sainte-Marie on ""She Used to Wanna Be a Ballerina"" in the early 1970s.) Nitzsche had also worked on film scores throughout his career, such as his contributions to the Monkees movie"
"on the original record. ""Up Where We Belong"" was released as a single and became a global hit peaking at number one in the US, Canada, and Australia, and reaching the top 10 in many other countries. An Officer and a Gentleman An Officer and a Gentleman is a 1982 American romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Debra Winger, and Louis Gossett Jr., who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film, making him the first African American to do so. It tells the story of Zack Mayo (Gere), a United States Navy Aviation Officer Candidate who"
"credits start to roll as Cocker and Warnes begin singing the song at the chorus. Although ""Up Where We Belong"" is heard separately from the final scene, it has often taken the place of the score in send-ups of the grand finale over the years. Films and television shows that have used some variation of the song in doing this include ""Bridget Jones's Baby"", ""The Cleveland Show"", ""Everybody Hates Chris"", ""Family Guy"", ""Friends"", ""The Goldbergs"", ""The Office"", ""Sabrina the Teenage Witch"", ""Scrubs"", ""The Simpsons"", and ""South Park"". Up Where We Belong ""Up Where We Belong"" is a song written by"
"Alex Sadkin. In 1982, at the behest of producer Stewart Levine, Cocker recorded the duet ""Up Where We Belong"" with Jennifer Warnes for the soundtrack of the 1982 film ""An Officer and a Gentleman"". The song was an international hit, reaching number 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and winning a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo. The duet also won an Academy Award for Best Original Song, and Cocker and Warnes performed the song at the awards ceremony. Several days later, he was invited to perform ""You Are So Beautiful"" with Ray Charles in a television"
"More Hour"" for the 1981 motion picture ""Ragtime"". This became her second song performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Warnes teamed up with Joe Cocker to record ""Up Where We Belong"" for the 1982 motion picture ""An Officer and a Gentleman"". Written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Will Jennings and Jack Nitzsche, the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as a Golden Globe Award. The song also won Warnes and Cocker the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, which was released as a single and hit"
"We Belong Together (Randy Newman song) ""We Belong Together"" is a song written, composed and performed by Randy Newman for the 2010 movie ""Toy Story 3"". The song was nominated for several Best Original Song awards from various film society and movie awards committees. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards in February 2011. When he accepted his Oscar, which was presented by Jennifer Hudson, his speech was a humorous one that Moviefone.com says ""stole the show"". He made fun of advice he was given that ""it's not really good television to"
"various recording artist friends of theirs who tried to write songs, but their title songs didn't fit the movie."" Hackford said, ""Finally, one of the famous artists who was involved looked at the movie and said, to his credit, 'Hey, I can write something, but it's not going to work as well as the song you've got. Because they were running out of time before the film's release, Eisner and Simpson finally gave in, and ""Up Where We Belong"" made the final cut of the film and was released as a single on July 22, 1982. Some radio stations refused"
"'winningest dog musher of all time,' as the film presents him, with all parts played by Native Americans except one by Slim Pickens. The film was shown on cable TV in the early 1980s and was released in France in 2003. Sainte-Marie began using Apple Inc. Apple II and Macintosh computers as early as 1981 to record her music and later some of her visual art. The song ""Up Where We Belong"" (which Sainte-Marie co-wrote with Will Jennings and musician Jack Nitzsche) was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the film ""An Officer and a Gentleman"". It received"
"of the duo's new material and hired them to work on film scores and record projects. Nitzsche was the persuasive, cognitive musical wheel in the studio works of Phil Spector and the early to mid-period records by The Rolling Stones. His arrangements adorned many hits by Jackie DeShannon, Gene Pitney, Darlene Love, The Crystals, The Righteous Brothers, Neil Young, etc. although he had only one hit under his name, ""The Lonely Surfer"", released in 1963. Later, he would win an Oscar for co-composing ""Up Where We Belong."" In Nitzsche, Mathews found his mentor and 'godfather' in the music business and"
"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."
"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."
"We Belong ""We Belong"" is a song written by Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro. It was made popular by American rock singer Pat Benatar after being released as the lead single from her sixth studio album, ""Tropico"" (1984). It matched the success of ""Love Is a Battlefield"" on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, peaking at #5. It reached #3 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart and #34 on the Adult Contemporary. It was also successful in the United Kingdom, where it peaked number 22 in the charts, nearly matching the popularity of ""Love Is a"
"inspired it: for example, in the film, many of the Dreams' album covers are identical in design to Supremes album covers, and the Dreams themselves hail from Detroit – not Chicago, as do their Broadway counterparts. The Supremes were twice nominated for a Grammy Award—for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording (""Baby Love"", 1965) and Best Contemporary Rock & Roll Group Vocal Performance (""Stop! In the Name of Love"", 1966)—but never won an award in competition. Three of their songs were added to the Grammy Hall of Fame: ""Where Did Our Love Go"" and ""You Keep Me Hangin' On"" (both 1999)"
"Keep the Music Playing?"", was featured in the movie ""Best Friends"" and earned an Oscar nomination. A few years later, he won a 1985 Grammy Award for ""Yah Mo B There"", a duet with Michael McDonald. And he teamed up with Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes for the Top 40 ballad ""What About Me?"" in 1984. In 1985, he participated in the charity single ""We Are the World"". Ingram teamed with American vocalist Linda Ronstadt and had a top ten hit in the U.S. and the U.K. in 1987 with ""Somewhere Out There"", the theme from the animated feature film"
"to play ""Up Where We Belong"", even going so far as to send their copies back to Island Records. Cocker said, ""I remember going into their offices in New York. I walked in and I said, 'How's the single doing?' And this guy Mike Abrahams, who worked there, he said, 'This is how well it's doing'—and the office was piled with returns."" The single may have been recorded to promote the film, but Warnes pointed out that, in a sense, the success of the film was what sold the record. ""Up Where We Belong"" debuted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100"
"Joe Cocker discography This Joe Cocker discography lists the recordings plus live appearances of John Robert ""Joe"" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 - 22 December 2014), the English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and was most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He received several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song ""Up Where We Belong"", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked No. 97 on ""Rolling Stone""s 100 greatest"
"the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. The song also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and achieved high sales, earning a million-selling gold single in the U.S.one of the last 45s ever to do so. It was also accompanied by a popular music video. On the heels of this success, Steven Spielberg asked Ronstadt to record the theme song for the animated sequel titled """", which was titled ""Dreams to Dream"". Although ""Dreams to Dream"" failed to achieve the success of ""Somewhere Out There"", the song did give Ronstadt an Adult Contemporary hit"
"the theme song for the TV series ""The Wonder Years"". His 1974 cover of ""You Are So Beautiful"" reached number five in the US. Cocker was the recipient of several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his US number one ""Up Where We Belong"", a duet with Jennifer Warnes. In 1993, Cocker was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male, in 2007 was awarded a bronze Sheffield Legends plaque in his hometown and in 2008 he received an OBE at Buckingham Palace for services to music. Cocker was ranked number 97 on ""Rolling Stone""s 100 greatest singers"
"a master of ""fingerstyle"" technique, which is like the technique used for classical guitar. His music is strongly influenced by jazz, folk, rock, and classical music, creating a personal style. Don calls his style ""heavy wood!"" Buffy Sainte-Marie was born into the Cree community of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. She received a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a songwriter, performer and artist who has written huge hit songs that were performed by other famous artists including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond. Her song, ""Up Where We Belong"" won an Academy Award. Buffy"
"The Guardian listed ""Where I Belong"" as a stand out tracks alongside ""Don't Bring Me Down"". On 21 August 2004, The song debuted at number 85 on the UK Singles Charts and stayed in the Top 100 for 1 week. Where I Belong (Sia song) ""Where I Belong"" is a song by Australian singer Sia. It was released as the third single from her 2004 album, ""Colour the Small One"" in August 2004. ""Where I Belong"" was scheduled to be included on the soundtrack for the film ""Spider-Man 2""; however, owing to a record label conflict, it was withdrawn at"
"singers list. Joe Cocker discography This Joe Cocker discography lists the recordings plus live appearances of John Robert ""Joe"" Cocker, OBE (20 May 1944 - 22 December 2014), the English rock/blues musician, composer and actor who came to popularity in the 1960s, and was most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles. He received several awards, including a 1983 Grammy Award for his song ""Up Where We Belong"", a duet which he performed with Jennifer Warnes. He was ranked No. 97 on ""Rolling Stone""s"
"Somewhere (song) ""Somewhere"", sometimes referred to as ""Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)"" or simply ""There's a Place for Us"", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical ""West Side Story"" that was made into a film in 1961. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto, which forms the start of the melody,(actually is a quote from the cello and bass line in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, 17 bars from the end.) and also a longer phrase from the main theme of"
"songs, ""Almost There"" and ""Down in New Orleans"", were nominated for Oscars. In total, Newman has received 20 Academy Award nominations with two wins, both for Best Original Song. While accepting the award for ""We Belong Together"" in 2011, he joked ""my percentages aren't great."" A revue of Newman's songs, titled ""Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong"", was performed at the Astor Place Theatre in New York City in 1982, and later at other theaters around the country. The New York cast featured Mark Linn-Baker and Deborah Rush, and at one point included Treat Williams. In the 1990s, Newman adapted Goethe's"
"We Belong Together (Robert & Johnny song) ""We Belong Together"" was a 1958 American rhythm and blues hit written and recorded by Robert & Johnny, with a co-writing credit to Hy Weiss. It reached #12 on the R&B charts and #32 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. The song was later recorded by several others. The Fleetwoods released a version on their 1959 album, ""Mr. Blue."" A rendition by Ritchie Valens was released in 1959 on the Del-Fi record label and can be found on several of his albums. It's also featured in a scene from the 1987 hit film"
"Randy Newman's ""We Belong Together"" from ""Toy Story 3"". Academy's decision not to award Rahman for the song evoked wide criticisms in India. Apart from public responses, several stalwarts also commented on it. Shabana Azmi said, ""A. R. Rahman truly deserved the Oscar for Best Song this year."" Konkona Sen Sharma also tweeted the same opinion. Sandhya Mridul said, ""A.R Rahman stands apart he deserves every win"". However, Rahman himself has stated that he personally believes Newman deserved the award. A single titled ""Hours - If I Rise (vocal) Remix"" was released on 4 February 2012. This is credited as"
"Where I Belong (Building 429 song) ""Where I Belong"" is a song by Christian band Building 429 from their 2011 album ""Listen to the Sound"". Written by Jason Roy and Jason Ingram, it was released on Essential Records. It was named 2013 Billboard Magazine Christian Song of the Year after topping the US Billboard Christian Songs chart. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Roy said about the song: ""'Where I Belong' is one song the whole thought process of the record was built on, basically saying that nothing on earth can ever satisfy us"
"There's a Place for Us (song) ""There's a Place for Us"" is a song written by David Hodges, Hillary Lindsey, and co-written and recorded by American country artist Carrie Underwood, and is featured on the soundtrack for the 2010 film """". The song was featured during the end credits of the film. The song was also performed by other artists for country-specific releases outside the United States. The song received a nomination for ""Best Original Song"" at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. It was released on November 16, 2010 as the soundtrack's lead single, and can be purchased exclusively through"
"Upper Canada Village, in Ontario. The paddle-wheeled boat used in the theatrical musical film was the ""Julia Belle Swain"", currently (as of September 24, 2013) moored at Riverside Park in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1974, the Sherman Brothers, along with John Williams, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. The trio would later be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. ""Tom Sawyer"" also received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Philip M. Jefferies, Robert De Vestel) and Best Costume Design (Donfeld). Tom Sawyer (1973 film) Tom Sawyer is"
"up the building and its inhabitants unless the film's opening was cancelled. The standoff was resolved after the deaths of a journalist and a policeman, but ""the film's American box office prospects never recovered from the unfortunate controversy."" Muna Wassef's role as Hind in the Arabic-language version won her international recognition. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1977 for Best Music, Original Score for the music by Maurice Jarre. The musical score of ""The Message"" was composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. ""Side One"" ""Side Two"" In October 2008, producer Oscar"