JAMES INGRAM - ONE HUNDRED WAYS

ONE HUNDRED WAYS

JAMES INGRAM

SONGWRITERS: TONY COLEMAN; KATHY WAKEFIELD & BENJAMIN F. WRIGHT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS: THE POWER OF GREAT MUSIC

LABEL: WARNER RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1991

 

          James Edward Ingram(February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. After beginning his career in 1973, Ingram charted eight Top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart(including two number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first, a duet with fellow R&B artist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist.

          In between these hits, he also recorded the song "Somewhere Out There" with fellow recording artist Linda Ronstadt for the animated film An American Tail. The song and the music video both became gigantic hits. Ingram co-wrote "The Day I Fall in Love", from the motion picture Beethoven's 2nd(1993), and singer Patty Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done", from the motion picture Junior(1994), which earned him nominations for Best Original Song from the Oscars, Golden Globes, and Grammy Awards in 1994 and 1995.

Compliment what she does

Send her roses just because

If it's violins she loves

Let them play

Dedicate her favourite song

And hold her closer all night long

Love her today

Find one hundred ways

 

Don't forget, there could be

An old lover in her memory

If you need her so much more

Why don't you say?

Maybe she has it in her mind

That she's just wasting her time

Ask her to stay

Find one hundred ways

 

Being cool won't help you keep a love warm

You'll just blow your only chance

Take the time to open up your heart

That's the secret of romance

 

Sacrifice if you care

Buy her some moonlight to wear

If it's one more star she wants

Go all the way

In your arms tonight, she'll reflect

That she owes you the sweetest of debts

If she wants to pay

Find one hundred ways

 

In your arms tonight, she'll reflect

That she owes you the sweetest of debts

If she wants to pay

Find one hundred ways

 

Love her today

Find one hundred ways.