One Hundred Ways
"One Hundred Ways" is a 1981 single released from Quincy Jones's album The Dude on A&M Records. The song features James Ingram on vocals. The song reached number 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. It was a bigger Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number five in the U.S. and number six in Canada. Ingram received the 1982 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Male R&B [Vocal Performance|Best Male R&B Vocal Performance] for the song.
Personnel
- James Ingram – lead vocal
- Steve Lukather – guitar
- Greg Phillinganes – electric piano, synthesizer solo
- Ian Underwood – synthesizer, synthesizer programming
- Louis Johnson – bass guitar
- John Robinson – drums
- Jerry Hey – horn arrangement, trumpet
- Chuck Findley – trumpet
- Bill [Reichenbach Jr.] – trombone
- Kim Hutchcroft – saxophone, flute
- Ernie Watts – saxophone, flute, tenor saxophone solo fills
- Johnny Mandel – string arrangement, synthesizer arrangement
- Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
- Quincy Jones – vocal arrangement, rhythm arrangement
Samples
- The song was sampled in rapper MF DOOM's popular song "Rhymes Like Dimes" on 1999's Operation: Doomsday and 2001's Special Herbs, Vol. 1 respectively.