| Best of Jennifer Warnes | ||||
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| Released | September 1982 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 34:19 | |||
| Label | Arista | |||
| Producer | Jim Ed Norman, Rob Fraboni, Jennifer Warnes, David Shire | |||
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Best of Jennifer Warnes is a 1982 compilation album by singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes comprising five of her six Billboard Hot 100 singles - including the Top 40 hits "Right Time of the Night" and "I Know a Heartache When I See One" [2] - supplemented by four other tracks also recorded for Arista Records. In addition the album gave Warnes' recording of "It Goes Like It Goes" its first wide release.
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. Famous for her compositions, interpretations, and her extensive repertoire as a vocalist on movie soundtracks, she was also a close friend and collaborator of Canadian singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen.
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play, and online streaming in the United States.
In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or "contemporary hit radio" is also a radio format. Frequent variants of the Top 40 are the Top 10, Top 20, Top 30, Top 50, Top 75, Top 100 and Top 200.
Warnes had been recording tracks for her planned third Arista album at the Producers Workshop, reuniting with producer Jim Ed Norman who had overseen Warnes' 1977 Top Ten hit "Right Time of the Night", [3] in the summer of 1981 with one track "Could It Be Love" issued as a single that June. However, the interference of Arista president Clive Davis in the matter of song choice ultimately caused the planned album's cancellation although a second track from the Producers Workshop sessions: "Come to Me" - a remake of a 1977 Juice Newton recording - was issued in April 1982. [4]
Boulevard Recording is a recording studio in Hollywood, California that was opened in 2010 under the ownership of producer Clay Blair.
Edward James Norman, known as Jim Ed Norman, is an American musician, record producer, arranger and label head. He was one of the principal architects of the distinctive sound of West Coast 1970s pop and rock, after which he moved into production, eventually becoming President of Warner Bros. Records Nashville. Following a retirement period beginning in 2004, he re-emerged in Nashville in 2010.
"Right Time of the Night" is the title of a composition by Peter McCann which became a Top Ten hit single in 1977 via a recording by Jennifer Warnes.
Released in September 1982, Best of Jennifer Warnes featured the two single releases from Warnes' inaugural 1977 Arista album release Jennifer Warnes : "Right Time of the Night" and "I'm Dreaming", and also two of the three singles released from Warnes' 1979 follow-up album Shot Through the Heart : "I Know a Heartache When I See One" and "When the Feeling Comes Around", with that album's second single release "Don't Make Me Over" omitted in favor of two Warnes-composed album tracks: "I'm Restless" and "Shot Through the Heart", which had respectively served as B-side for "I Know a Heartache When I See One" and "When the Feeling Comes Around".
Jennifer Warnes is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes and her first credited as Jennifer Warnes: released in January 1977 as her inaugural Arista Records album, the disc generated Warnes' first Billboard Hot 100 single "Right Time of the Night" which also ranked on the Billboard hit listings of C&W and Easy Listening tracks, with "Right Time..." reaching #1 on the latter: a second single: "I'm Dreaming", also reached the Easy Listening Top Ten.
Shot Through the Heart is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jennifer Warnes, released on Arista Records in 1979. It peaked at #13 on the Billboard Country albums chart and #94 on the main Billboard albums chart.
"Don't Make Me Over" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, originally recorded by Dionne Warwick in August 1962 and released in the fall of 1962.
Best of Jennifer Warnes also marked the Arista release of "It Goes Like It Goes" which Warnes had recorded for the 1979 film Norma Rae : despite the song's earning the Academy Award for Best Original Song Warnes' recording had previously only been available in a single featured in the Norma Rae press kit. Also included in Best of Jennifer Warnes were three tracks from the sessions for her abandoned third Arista album: the singles "Could It Be Love" and "Come to Me" and the previously unreleased "Run to Her", Warnes' remake of the 1961 Bobby Vee hit "Run to Him".
"It Goes Like It Goes" is a song written by David Shire and Norman Gimbel. Jennifer Warnes sang the vocals for the Norma Rae soundtrack in 1979. "It Goes Like It Goes" won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1979, defeating such fellow nominees as "Through the Eyes of Love" and "Rainbow Connection", to the consternation of some critics.
Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt from a screenplay written by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch. Based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton, which was told in the 1975 book Crystal Lee, a Woman of Inheritance by New York Times reporter Henry P. Leifermann, the film stars Sally Field in the titular role. Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley and Gail Strickland are featured in supporting roles. The film's narrative follows Norma Rae, a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works after her and her co-workers' health is compromised.
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right. The songs that are nominated for this award are performed during the ceremony and before this award is presented.
By the time of the September 1982 release of Best of Jennifer Warnes the singer was no longer on the Arista Records roster, Warnes' post-Arista career already being well underway with the August 1982 release of "Up Where We Belong" Warnes' duet with Joe Cocker which Warnes correctly predicted would afford her a major hit single. [5]
"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 Nitzsche and Sainte-Marie in creating the structure of the song and added lyrics about the struggles of life and love and the obstacles in the way that we attempt to dodge. It was released in July of that year to coincide with the release of the film.
John Robert Cocker, better known as Joe Cocker, was an English singer. He was known for his gritty voice, spasmodic body movement in performance, and distinctive versions of popular songs of varying genres.
