1970s Career
In 1971, she met Canadian songwriter and poet, Leonard Cohen, and the two have remained lifelong friends. She would eventually tour Europe with Cohen's band, first as a back-up singer and then as a vocal arranger and guest singer on Cohen's albums, Live Songs, Various Positions, I'm Your Man, The Future, Field Commander Cohen, and Recent Songs. Warnes would later (1987) record a critically acclaimed audiophile album of Cohen songs, Famous Blue Raincoat. In 1972, she released her third album, Jennifer, which was produced by John Cale and has yet to be reissued. In 1976 Warnes released the album which would contain her breakthrough single, "Right Time of the Night", hitting No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart in April 1977 and No. 6 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in May 1977.
Warnes recorded the song, "It Goes Like It Goes", for the 1979 motion picture, Norma Rae. The song went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Her 1979 single, "I Know A Heartache When I See One", was a Top 10 Country hit and reached the Top 20 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts.
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