Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947 in Seattle , Washington ) is an American singer .

Life

Growing up in Orange County ( California ), Warnes began 'career already in their childhood. In 1967 she appeared in a television series for the first time as a pop singer. Soon after, she starred in Los Angeles a lead role in the musical Hair . Bert Sommer wrote his song Jennifer for her after he met her at Hair .

Her first studio recording was a duet with Mason Williams , with which she became a recognized figure on the Los Angeles club scene. As a solo artist, Warnes recorded an album for Parrot Records and Reprise Records in 1972 , which sold poorly. In 1975 she changed the record company and signed with Arista Records . With her new label, she had a top 10 hit in 1977 with Right Time of the Night and another top 20 hit in 1979 with I Know A Heartache When I See One , which also reached the top 10 of the country charts.

During the 1980s, she gradually became better known as a singer. The song she sang It Goes Like It Goes , part of the soundtrack for the film Norma Rae , won an Oscar in 1980 in the category Best Original Song . The award went to the composers David Shire and Norman Gimbel . Warnes then sang the song One More Hour , composed by Randy Newman , before she finally had her breakthrough in 1982/83 with Up Where We Belong , a duet with Joe Cocker for the film An Officer and a Gentleman . This was followed by film songs such as Nights are Forever and All The Right Moves , which she recorded with Chris Thompson , the former singer of Manfred Mann's Earth Band .

Another number one had with Bill Medley and the Dirty Dancing -Titel (I've Had) The Time of My Life You worked with a number of international artists for other albums, for 1987. B. with Leonard Cohen , Richard Thompson , Van Dyke Parks , Donald Fagen , Jackson Browne , John Prine , Tanita Tikaram , Harry Belafonte and Stephen Burton . Also in 1987 she brought out the hit single First We Take Manhattan , a song written by Leonard Cohen, which the latter recorded a short time later for his own album I'm Your Man .

Collaboration with Leonard Cohen

Jennifer Warnes had a close friendship with the Canadian composer and poet Leonard Cohen. The two met in 1970 and went on tour together in 1972 and 1979. Jennifer Warnes has worked on six of Cohen's albums. In 1986 she recorded an entire album of Cohen tracks: Famous Blue Raincoat - The Songs of Leonard Cohen . This album is considered a masterpiece of her career, it achieved triple platinum status in Canada. Famous Blue Raincoat also features a duet by Cohen and Warnes: Joan of Arc , a dialogue between Joan of Arc and the pyre fire on which she is burned. Leonard Cohen said of Warnes: “ If you want to hear what a woman is thinking, if you want to hear what a woman sounds like today, listen to Jennifer Warnes. "(German:" If you want to hear what a woman thinks, if you want to hear how a woman sounds today, listen to Jennifer Warnes. ")

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1977	Jennifer Warnes	-	-	-	-	US43 (18 weeks) US	First published: May 1977
1979	Shot through the heart	-	-	-	-	US94 (23 weeks) US	First published: October 1979
1987	Famous Blue Raincoat	DE33 (15 weeks) DE	-	CH18 (8 weeks) CH	UK33 silver (12 weeks)UK	US72 (21 weeks) US	First published: March 1987

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1968: I Can Remember Everything
• 1969: See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me
• 1972: Jennifer
• 1982: Best Of
• 1992: The Hunter
• 2000: First We Take Manhattan - Best 1979–1992
• 2000: Best
• 2001: The Well
• 2004: Love Lifts Us Up - A Collection: 1968-1983
• 2018: Another Time, Another Place

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1977	Right Time of the Night Jennifer Warnes	-	-	-	-	US6 (22 weeks) US	First published: January 1977
	I'm dreaming Jennifer Warnes	-	-	-	-	US50 (7 weeks) US	First published: July 1977
1979	I Know a Heartache When I See One Shot Through the Heart	-	-	-	-	US19 (22 weeks) US	First published: June 1979
	Don't Make Me Over Shot Through the Heart	-	-	-	-	US67 (7 weeks) US	First published: December 1979
1980	When the Feeling Comes Around Shot Through the Heart	DE73 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US45 (8 weeks) US	First published: March 1980 in DE only in the charts in 1988
1981	Could It Be Love The Best of	-	-	-	-	US47 (10 weeks) US	First published: November 1981
1987	First We Take Manhattan Famous Blue Raincoat	-	-	-	UK74 (4 weeks) UK	-	First published: June 1987
1992	Rock You Gently The Hunter	DE65 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: July 1992

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1982	Up Where We Belong An Officer and a Gentleman (OST)	DE6 (21 weeks) DE	AT14 (4 weeks) AT	CH7 (5 weeks) CH	UK7th silver (14 weeks)UK	US1 platinum (23 weeks)US	First published: July 1982 with Joe Cocker
1983	All the Right Moves The Right Turn (OST)	-	-	-	-	US85 (4 weeks) US	First published: October 1983 with Chris Thompson
1987	(I've Had) The Time of My Life Dirty Dancing (OST)	DE5 (21 weeks) DE	AT3 (14 weeks) AT	CH5 (15 weeks) CH	UK6th platinum (25 weeks)UK	US1 gold (21 weeks)US	First published: September 1987 with Bill Medley
1988	Skin to Skin Paradise in Gazankulu	DE73 (1 week) DE	AT13 (12 weeks) AT	-	-	-	First published: December 1988 with Harry Belafonte

More singles

• 1982: Come To Me
• 1983: Nights Are Forever
• 1985: As Long As We've Got Each Other (with BJ Thomas)
• 1987: Simply Meant To Be (with Gary Morris)
• 1992: True Emotion
• 1993: The Whole Of The Moon

Awards for music sales

Golden record

•  Canada
  • 1983: for the single Up Where We Belong
  • 1988: for the single (I've Had) The Time of My Life

3 × platinum record

•  Canada
  • 1995: for the album Famous Blue Raincoat

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	3 × platinum3	400,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	gold1	platinum1	1,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	-	platinum1	860,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	3 × gold3	5 × platinum5

swell

1. ↑ http://www.musicvf.com/Jennifer+Warnes.art
2. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079638/awards?ref_=tt_awd
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

• Jennifer Warnes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (English)
• Portrait (german)