Up Where We Belong
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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 perfomed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
The song became a number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the Academy Award for Best 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." [[Citing sources citation needed]]
Composer Buffy Sainte-Marie performed the song to a live audience in 1997 in the TV special Buffy Sainte-Marie: Up Where We Belong.
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