James Ingram was asked so many times about his big break that he developed a kind of shorthand for the tale of his being discovered by Quincy Jones.
An Ohio-born musician who'd moved to Los Angeles to make it in show business, Ingram was recording demos for a music publisher around 1980 when he cut "Just Once," a tender romantic ballad written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil.
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