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One of many moderately successful folkie/soft rock hybrid singers of the late Seventies, Jennifer Warnes began her career as a protege of Leonard Cohen, singing backing vocals and collaborating with the legendary Canadian folkie for decades.
Her debut album, which was released for Reprise Records in 1973, featured covers of songs by Jimmy Webb (an excellent songwriter who also worked with Richard Harris on the track MacArthur Park), Procol Harum and Jackson Browne (who also played guitar on the album). The album went nowhere and quickly saw Warnes dropped.
In 1976, however, Jennifer signed with the newly formed Arista Records, and released her 2nd album, a self-titled release, that year. It featured a cover version of the song Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers, and the soft rock classics The Right Time Of The Night and I'm Dreaming.
During this time, Jennifer would collaborate with the likes of James Taylor, Andrew Gold and Warren Zevon, but the success Jennifer found in the Seventies did not last. However, by 1982, Jennifer would record the perennial wedding ballad, Up Where We Belong, with Joe Cocker for the soundtrack of the Debra Winger-Richard Gere romance An Officer And A Gentlemen. It spent much of 1982 on the top of the Hot 100, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and the film itself was a great release.
She would top the charts again with I've Had The Time Of My Life, from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, a duet with Righteous Brother Bill Medley, 5 years later, in 1987.
She has not recorded anything of note in recent years, but she did a recent cover of Why Worry by Mark Knopfler that is hard not to love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wDjyjZics
And as I type this, I slowly feel like a 65 year old baby boomer grandpa. Other than that, listen to some Jennifer Warnes. You will not be disappointed. I actually have a few Ktel compilation albums with some Jennifer Warnes songs on them.
It amazes me how a lot of people talk about how successful Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt etc. were highly successful female singers, but nobody ever talks about Jennifer Warnes. Maybe that will change.
Her debut album, which was released for Reprise Records in 1973, featured covers of songs by Jimmy Webb (an excellent songwriter who also worked with Richard Harris on the track MacArthur Park), Procol Harum and Jackson Browne (who also played guitar on the album). The album went nowhere and quickly saw Warnes dropped.
In 1976, however, Jennifer signed with the newly formed Arista Records, and released her 2nd album, a self-titled release, that year. It featured a cover version of the song Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers, and the soft rock classics The Right Time Of The Night and I'm Dreaming.
During this time, Jennifer would collaborate with the likes of James Taylor, Andrew Gold and Warren Zevon, but the success Jennifer found in the Seventies did not last. However, by 1982, Jennifer would record the perennial wedding ballad, Up Where We Belong, with Joe Cocker for the soundtrack of the Debra Winger-Richard Gere romance An Officer And A Gentlemen. It spent much of 1982 on the top of the Hot 100, won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and the film itself was a great release.
She would top the charts again with I've Had The Time Of My Life, from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, a duet with Righteous Brother Bill Medley, 5 years later, in 1987.
She has not recorded anything of note in recent years, but she did a recent cover of Why Worry by Mark Knopfler that is hard not to love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3wDjyjZics
And as I type this, I slowly feel like a 65 year old baby boomer grandpa. Other than that, listen to some Jennifer Warnes. You will not be disappointed. I actually have a few Ktel compilation albums with some Jennifer Warnes songs on them.
It amazes me how a lot of people talk about how successful Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt etc. were highly successful female singers, but nobody ever talks about Jennifer Warnes. Maybe that will change.
