Slower Dancing Songs: Up Where We Belong

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The top ten — I need to emphasize these are my personal selections and not the favorites of @rebelann (to whom this countdown is dedicated) — starts tomorrow. Yesterday’s song could have been there, and so could this song. Sway and slow skate along to this classic. [b]Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes[b] How did the guy who looked and acted spazzed out at Woodstock and the woman who did the soft-rock/almost country hit “The Right Time of the Night” team up. Furthermore, how did they team up and sound this stinking GREAT!? A question for the ages. I don’t know who picked them to pair together for a duet (maybe they threw darts at lists of singers on the wall, and these two are where the darts landed), because it’s one of the most unlikely pairings in music history, but the results speak for themselves. An Oscar. A Golden Globe. A Grammy. One of the most memorable songs of the 80s (in an era where everything on the charts seemed to be in a movie). It worked. Splendidly. Up Where We Belong Written by Will Jennings, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Jack Nitzsche Recorded by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes From An Officer and a Gentleman (soundtrack), 1982 There are mountains in our way: