Somewhere out there
James ingram & linda ronstadt
SONGWRITERs: BARRY
MANN; CYNTHIA WEIL; JAMES HORNER & STEVE EARLE
COUNTRY: u. s. a.
ALBUM: an American tail: music from the motion picture
sountrack
LABEL: mca records
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1986
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.
Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is
a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres
including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards,
three American
Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award,
and an ALMA Award.
Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned
nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011
and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the
Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On
July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In
2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio.
Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy
Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.
Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15
compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US
Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40,
ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're
No Good"). Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic
to the UK. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There"
with James Ingram and "Don't
Know Much" with Aaron Neville,
peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou"
was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. She has charted 36 albums, ten
top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop
Album Chart.
Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in
diverse genres, including Bette
Midler, Billy
Eckstine, Frank
Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator
Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney,
Flaco Jiménez,
Philip Glass,
Warren Zevon,
Emmylou Harris,
Gram Parsons,
Dolly Parton,
Neil Young,
Paul Simon,
Earl Scruggs,
Johnny Cash,
and Nelson Riddle.
She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than
100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times,
wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling
set of pipes of her generation."
Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when
she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album
in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. She announced her
retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able
to sing as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy. Since
then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of
public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple
Dreams: A Musical Memoir, in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs,
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,
was released in 2019.
"Somewhere Out There" is a song
released by MCA Records and recorded by American singers Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram for the soundtrack of the animated film An
American Tail (1986). The song was written by James Horner,
Barry Mann,
and Cynthia Weil,
and produced by Peter Asher and Steve Tyrell.
It reached number
eight in the United Kingdom, number six in Ireland, and number two in both the
United States and Canada.
Somewhere out there
Beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me
And loving me tonight
Somewhere out there
Somone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another
In that big somewhere out there
And even though I
know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
Somewhere out there
If love can see us through
Then we'll be together
Somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true.
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