Yah Mo B There

"Yah Mo B There"
Single by James Ingram and Michael McDonald
from the album It's Your Night
B-side"Come a Da Machine (To Take a My Place)"
ReleasedDecember 9, 1983
Recorded1983
GenreR&B, synthpop
Length
  • 4:40
    4:02 (7-inch)
LabelQwest, Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Quincy Jones
James Ingram singles chronology
"Party Animal"
(1983)
"Yah Mo B There"
(1983)
"There's No Easy Way"
(1984)
Michael McDonald singles chronology
"I Gotta Try"
(1982)
"Yah Mo B There"
(1984)
"No Lookin' Back"
(1985)

"Yah Mo B There" is a contemporary R&B song, recorded as a duet by American singers James Ingram and Michael McDonald. It was written by Ingram, McDonald, Rod Temperton and producer Quincy Jones. The song originally appeared on Ingram's 1983 album, It's Your Night, via Jones's Qwest Records label. It was released as a single in late 1983, peaking in 1984 at No. 19 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart and No. 44 on the UK Singles Chart.

A remixed version by John Benitez reached No. 12 in the UK, during the spring of 1985. It has subsequently appeared on several of Ingram's and McDonald's greatest hits albums, as well as various 1980s compilation albums.

The performance earned the duo a 1985 Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. It was one of a series of very successful duets involving Ingram. It also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song, losing to "I Feel for You" by Chaka Khan.