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James Ingram, the soulful, smooth voice behind R&B hits like “Just Once“ and “I Don’t Have The Heart,“ has died yesterday, 29 January 2019, at the age of 66. To remember him, we are highlighting two songs he recorded for the TopPop cameras in Holland. James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. Ingram, an Ohio native, got his start as a musician with the band Revelation Funk and later played keyboards for Ray Charles. He was nominated for 14 Grammy Awards, winning for best male R&B performance for his song “One Hundred Ways“ in 1981 and best R&B performance for a duo or group in 1984 for “Yah Mo B There.“ His duet with Patti Austin, “How Do You Keep the Music Playing,“ earned an Oscar nomination for best original song in 1983. Ingram was also nominated for two Golden Globe Awards — one in 1994 for best original song for “The Day I Fall in Love“ and again in the same category the following year for “Look What Love Has Done.“ He co-wrote Michael Jackson’s hit song “. (Pretty Young Thing)“ with Quincy Jones. James Ingram visited the TopPop studios in Hilversum, the Netherlands, twice in 1983. He performed ‘Party Animal’ from his 1983 album ‘It’s Your night’ on 28 October 1983. Earlier that year, on 19 February 1983 he performed his duet with Patti Austin ‘Baby Come To Me’ for the TopPop cameras. “Baby, Come to Me“ is a love ballad from Patti Austin’s 1981 album Every Home Should Have One, sung as a duet by Austin and James Ingram. It was written by Rod Temperton (formerly of Heatwave). The song was released as a single in April 1982, peaking at #73 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 28 October 1983 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.
