Ingram won a Grammy Award for "Yah Mo B There"

 

Ingram is perhaps best known for his hit collaborations with other vocalists. He scored a No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 chart in February 1983 with Patti Austin on the duet "Baby, Come to Me", a song made popular on TV's General Hospital. 

A second Austin–Ingram duet, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?", was featured in the movie Best Friends (1982) and earned an Oscar nomination. 

In 1984, he teamed up with Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes for the Top 40 ballad "What About Me?". 

In 1985, Ingram won a Grammy Award for "Yah Mo B There", a duet with Michael McDonald, and participated in the charity single "We Are the World".

James Edward Ingram's Career

 

In 1984, Ingram received three Grammy nominations: "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (his second duet with recording artist Patti Austin), for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals; the US Top 10 single, "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" for Michael Jackson, which Ingram and Quincy Jones co-wrote, for Best R&B Song; and the track "Party Animal" for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.

 In early 1985, he was again triple nominated, for his debut album (It's Your Night) for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, and its single, "Yah Mo B There" (a duet with fellow R&B musician Michael McDonald), for Best R&B Song and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group, and won the latter.

James Ingram and wife Debbie Ingram

 

Ingram provided the vocals to "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways" on Quincy Jones's 1981 album The Dude, which earned Ingram triple Grammy nominations and won Best New Artist.

 "One Hundred Ways" won him the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his work. On December 11, 1981, Ingram appeared as a guest on the Canadian comedy series SCTV (which aired on NBC), singing "Just Once"


 Ingram's debut album, It's Your Night, was released in 1983 and included the ballad "There's No Easy Way".

 He worked with other notable artists such as Donna Summer, Ray Charles, Anita Baker, Viktor Lazlo, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, and Kenny Rogers.


 In October 1990, he scored a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the love ballad "I Don't Have the Heart", from his It's Real album. 

Ingram was born in Akron, Ohio

Ingram was born in Akron, Ohio, where he lived with his parents until he moved in with his grandmother, when he was 10.

 He later attended Akron's East High School and the University of Akron.

 Subsequently he moved to Los Angeles and played with the band Revelation Funk, which made an appearance in the Rudy Ray Moore film Dolemite.

 He also later played keyboards for Ray Charles before becoming famous.

 Meanwhile, his younger brother, Phillip Ingram, became prominent as a member of the Motown group Switch.

James Edward Ingram ------ Passed Away ------ January 29, 2019 (aged 66)----- Los Angeles, California, U.S

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. 

Since beginning his career in 1973, Ingram had 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.

James Edward Ingram Born February 16, 1952

 

 

Singles

Year	Title	Chart positions				Album
		US[16]	US R&B[17]	US A/C[18]	UK[15]
1981	"Just Once" (with Quincy Jones)	17	11	7	—	The Dude
	"One Hundred Ways" (with Quincy Jones)	14	10	5	—
1982	"Baby, Come to Me" (with Patti Austin)	73	37	—	—	Every Home Should Have One
	"Baby, Come to Me" (with Patti Austin) (re-release)	1	9	1	11
1983	"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (with Patti Austin)	45	6	5	—	It's Your Night
	"Party Animal"	—	21	—	—
	"Yah Mo B There" (with Michael McDonald)	19	5	—	12
1984	"There's No Easy Way"	58	14	7	—
	"She Loves Me (The Best That I Can)"	—	59	19	—
	"What About Me?" (with Kenny Rogers & Kim Carnes)	15	57	1	92	What About Me?
1985	"It's Your Night"	—	—	—	25	It's Your Night
1985	"America (The Dream Goes On)" (with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra)	—	—	—	—	Boston Pops: America, The Dream Goes On
1986	"Always"	—	27	—	—	Never Felt So Good
	"I Just Can't Let Go" (with David Pack & Michael McDonald)	—	—	13	—	Anywhere You Go
	"Never Felt So Good"	—	86	—	—	Never Felt So Good
	"Somewhere Out There" (with Linda Ronstadt)	2	—	4	8	An American Tail
1987	"Better Way"	—	66	—	—	Beverly Hills Cop II
1989	"It's Real"	—	8	—	83	It's Real
	"I Wanna Come Back"	—	18	—	—
	"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man"	—	30	—	—
1990	"The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)" (with Quincy Jones feat. Al B. Sure!, El DeBarge and Barry White)	31	1	26	67	Back on the Block
	"I Don't Have the Heart"	1	53	2	—	It's Real
	"When Was the Last Time the Music Made You Cry"	—	81	29	—
1991	"Where Did My Heart Go"	—	—	23	—	City Slickers
	"Get Ready"	—	59	—	—	The Greatest Hits: The Power of Great Music
1993	"Someone Like You"	—	—	34	—	Always You
1994	"The Day I Fall in Love" (with Dolly Parton)	—	—	36	64	Beethoven's 2nd
	"I Don't Want to Be Alone for Christmas (Unless I'm Alone with You)"	—	—	—	—	A Very Merry Chipmunk
1995	"When You Love Someone" (with Anita Baker)	—	71	39	—	Forget Paris
1998	"Give Me Forever (I Do)" (with John Tesh)	66	—	5	—	Pure Movies
1999	"Forever More (I'll Be the One)" (with John Tesh)	—	—	12	—	One World
"—" denotes the single failed to chart or was not released

James Ingram

James Ingram
Ingram in 1998
Born	James Edward Ingram February 16, 1952 Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Died	January 29, 2019 (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Musician, songwriter, record producer, actor
Years active	1973–2019
Spouse(s)	Debra Robinson (m. 1975)
Musical career
Origin	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	R&B, pop, soul
Instruments	Vocals, keyboards
Labels	Qwest, Intering
Associated acts	Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, Anita Baker
Website	jamesingramsmusic.co

"I Have a Dream"

 
King gave his most famous speech, "I Have a Dream", before the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

King delivered a 17-minute speech, later known as "I Have a Dream". 

In the speech's most famous passage—in which he departed from his prepared text, possibly at the prompting of Mahalia Jackson, who shouted behind him, "Tell them about the dream!"—King said:

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.

March on Washington D.C.

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963).

Kennedy initially opposed the march outright, because he was concerned it would negatively impact the drive for passage of civil rights legislation.

 However, the organizers were firm that the march would proceed. With the march going forward, the Kennedys decided it was important to work to ensure its success. 

President Kennedy was concerned the turnout would be less than 100,000. 

Therefore, he enlisted the aid of additional church leaders and Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers, to help mobilize demonstrators for the cause.

The boycott lasted for 385 days

Rosa Parks with King, 1955

 

 

 

In March 1955, Claudette Colvin—a fifteen-year-old black schoolgirl in Montgomery—refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in violation of Jim Crow laws, local laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation.

 King was on the committee from the Birmingham African-American community that looked into the case; E. D. Nixon and Clifford Durr decided to wait for a better case to pursue because the incident involved a minor.

Nine months later on December 1, 1955, a similar incident occurred when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.

The two incidents led to the Montgomery bus boycott, which was urged and planned by Nixon and led by King.  The boycott lasted for 385 days,  and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed.

  King was arrested during this campaign, which concluded with a United States District Court ruling in Browder v. Gayle that ended racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.

 King's role in the bus boycott transformed him into a national figure and the best-known spokesman of the civil rights movement^.

Keep The Dream Alive.............

 

Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. He became known for his public-speaking ability and was part of the school's debate team.

 When King was 13 years old, in 1942, he became the youngest assistant manager of a newspaper delivery station for the Atlanta Journal.

During his junior year, he won first prize in an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks Club in Dublin, Georgia. 

On the ride home to Atlanta by bus, he and his teacher were ordered by the driver to stand so that white passengers could sit down. King initially refused but complied after his teacher told him that he would be breaking the law if he did not submit.

 During this incident, King said that he was "the angriest I have ever been in my life."

An outstanding student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grades of high school.

Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

This article is part of a series about Martin Luther King Jr.
Biography Sermons and speeches Campaigns Montgomery bus boycott Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom Youth March for Integrated Schools Albany Movement Birmingham campaign Walk to Freedom March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom St. Augustine movement Selma to Montgomery marches Chicago Open Housing Movement March Against Fear Memphis sanitation strike Poor People's Campaign Death and memorial Assassination American federal holiday National memorial National Historical Park
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Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955

 

 

 

 

Doctoral studies

King began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation (initially supervised by Edgar S. Brightman and, upon the latter's death, by Lotan Harold DeWolf) titled A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman.

 While pursuing doctoral studies, King worked as an assistant minister at Boston's historic Twelfth Baptist Church with Rev. William Hunter Hester. Hester was an old friend of King's father, and was an important influence on King^.

 

Decades later, an academic inquiry in October 1991 concluded that portions of his dissertation had been plagiarized and he had acted improperly. However, "[d]espite its finding, the committee said that 'no thought should be given to the revocation of Dr. King's doctoral degree,' an action that the panel said would serve no purpose."

 The committee also found that the dissertation still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship." A letter is now attached to the copy of King's dissertation held in the university library, noting that numerous passages were included without the appropriate quotations and citations of sources.  

older sister Christine King Farris and younger brother A.D. King

 
King's graduate work was at the Crozer Theological Seminary (pictured in 2009).



King was a middle child, between older sister Christine King Farris and younger brother A.D. King.  King sang with his church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind, and he enjoyed singing and music

His mother was an accomplished organist and choir leader who took him to various churches to sing, and he received attention for singing "I Want to Be More and More Like Jesus". King later became a member of the junior choir in his church.

King said that his father regularly whipped him until he was 15; a neighbor reported hearing the elder King telling his son "he would make something of him even if he had to beat him to death."

 King saw his father's proud and fearless protests against segregation, such as King Sr. refusing to listen to a traffic policeman after being referred to as "boy," or stalking out of a store with his son when being told by a shoe clerk that they would have to "move to the rear" of the store to be served.

King was born on January 15, 1929

The high school that King attended was named after African-American educator Booker T. Washington.

 

 

 

King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. King's given name at birth was Michael King, and his father was also born Michael King, but, after a period of gradual transition on the elder King's part, he changed both his and his son's names in 1934.

 The senior King was inspired during a trip to Germany for that year's meeting of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). While visiting sites associated with reformation leader, Martin Luther, attendees also witnessed the rise of Nazism.

 The BWA conference issued a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, and the senior King gained deepened appreciation for the power of Luther's protest. The elder King would later state that "Michael" was a mistake by the attending physician to his son's birth  and the younger King's birth certificate was altered to read "Martin Luther King Jr." in 1957. 

King's parents were both African-American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great-grandfather.

"But If Not" Sermon By Dr. King

Keep Moving Sermon By Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The Drum Major Instinct"

The Other American ----1967

If FAITH vs Though FAITH

"I Have Been To The Mountaintop"------Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"A Knock At Midnight"

What Is Your Life's BluePrint?

Dr. Kings's " I Have A Dream Sermon"

Presidential Medal of Freedom

King was  awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

 Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986.

 Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also rededicated for him. 

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.

Poor People's Campaign

In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee.

 His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, and imprisoned, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents, persisted for decades after the shooting.

 Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder, effectively a life sentence as Ray was 41 at the time of conviction, Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison.

"If you can't fly, then run"

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

 In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing.

 In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. 

He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963 on.

 FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Three Evils of Society Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King in 1964
1st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
In office January 10, 1957 – April 4, 1968
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Ralph Abernathy
Personal details
Born	Michael King Jr. January 15, 1929 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	April 4, 1968 (aged 39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Cause of death	Assassination
Resting place	Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Coretta Scott (m. 1953)
Children	Yolanda Denise King Martin Luther King III Dexter Scott King Bernice Albertine King
Parents	Martin Luther King Sr. Alberta Williams King
Relatives	Christine King Farris (sister) Alfred Daniel Williams King (brother) Alveda King (niece)
Alma mater	Morehouse College Crozer Theological Seminary Boston University
Occupation	Minister, activist
Known for	Civil rights movement, Peace movement
Awards	Nobel Peace Prize (1964) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous) Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous)
Monuments	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Signature

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

What a Friend We Have in Jesus

Alan Jackson

 

 

 

 

What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grieves to bear

 
What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer

 
Oh what peace we often forfeit of what needless pain we bear

 
All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer

 
Have we trials and temptations is there trouble anywhere

 
If we have don't be discouraged take it to the Lord in prayer

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) 

was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968.

 Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. 

King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 

With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

January 15, 1929

		Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

			Born: January 15, 1929, Atlanta, GA Parents: Martin Luther King Sr., Alberta Williams King Education: Boston University (1951–1955), MORE Siblings: A. D. King, Christine King Farris