"Always" by James Ingram

Birthday wishes go out today to James Ingram, whose 1986 single Always - from his second album, Never Felt So Good - spins the usual soulful sounds that fans of his earlier releases like Baby, Come to Me (a duet with Patti Austin featuring the background vocals of Michael McDonald) and Yah Mo B There had come to expect from him alongside the synth-driven sound of the times.

Ingram later followed up this lesser-known offering with a pair of smashes, including Somewhere Out There (a duet with Linda Ronstadt featured in Steven Spielberg's 1986 movie An American Tail - directed by Don Bluth) and 1990's I Don't Have the Heart.
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