Song comparisons

Up Where We Belong (From "Officer and a Gentleman") by The Lettermen and Up Where We Belong (From "An Officer and a Gentleman") by Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 100%, another version of the same song.

100%Another version of the same song
Harmony100%
Melody100%
Sound96%
Rhythm57%

Raised to 100% by the other-version check, which finds these to be versions of the same song; the engine's own measure was 98%.

Up Where We Belong (From "Officer and a Gentleman")Up Where We Belong (From "An Officer and a Gentleman")
ArtistThe LettermenJoe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
KeyD MajorD Major
Tempo144 BPM140 BPM
Most alike passage1:03–4:100:39–3:52

Same key

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is as close as other versions of the same song usually are (distance 0.18; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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