It is Ingram's only number-one single as a solo artist on the US Billboard Hot 100, and his second number-one single overall, since the Patti Austin-featured "Baby, Come to Me", which topped the Hot 100 in 1983.
Released as the fourth single from Ingram's 1989 album It's Real, "I Don't Have the Heart" reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20, 1990.
[3] "I Don't Have The Heart" was the first song that the duo of Allan Rich and Jud Friedman created together.
Introduced by head of Peermusic Kathy Spanberger, Rich had already written the first verse and chorus of the song.
Inspired by what he heard Friedman invited Rich over to his apartment in L.A. to finish the lyrics.