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 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

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Samples

• The song was sampled in rapper MF DOOM's popular song "Rhymes Like Dimes" (and its instrumental re-release, "Monosodium Glutamate") on 1999's ' and 2001's Special Herbs, Vol. 1 respectively.