It is on YouTube, and you'll note their voices aren't quite as strong. Joe Cocker was given a Lifetime Achievement award in Berlin, Germany - and the audience was treated to a surprise appearance by Jennifer Warnes, as they sang this duet, thirty years later. It reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 15th 1982, "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on position #89 and on October 31st, 1982 it peaked at #1.Joe is remembered by many from John Belushi's imitations on television's "Saturday Night Live" and the two famously performed together on the show in 1976. His biggest American hit was a duet with Jennifer Warnes, "Up Where We Belong", from the movie "An Officer And A Gentleman" (#1-1982), which the two performed at the Academy Awards. Other hits included "Cry Me A River" (#11-1970), "Feeling Alright" (#33-1972) and the Billy Preston composition, "You Are So Beautiful" (#5) in 1975.
Joe's "Mad Dogs And Englishmen" tour yielded a live album and a #7 single- a cover of the Box Tops' "The Letter" in 1970. Joe was asked to perform at Woodstock and afterwards, "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" from his second album earned him his first American hit (#30-1970). He continued on though, and in 1968 recorded a #1 tune in England with his version of the Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" (#68- US). By 1964 he earned a brief contract as a solo artist with Decca Records to little success. Born in Sheffield, England, he formed a skiffle group there at the age of 16 and one year later began performing in British pubs- eventually opening for the Rolling Stones. John Robert "Joe" Cocker died Monday (December 22) of lung cancer at his Colorado home at the age of 70.
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