The Main Ingredient

The Main Ingredient

The Main Ingredient

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Top Songs

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Everybody Plays the Fool [Remastered]
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Just Don't Want to Be Lonely [Remastered]
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Happiness Is Just Around The Bend
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Rolling Down a Mountainside
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Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling In Love)

Albums

  • Everybody Plays the Fool

    Mar 2023 • 2 songs

  • Everybody Plays The Fool / Just Don't Want to be Lonely
  • The Main Ingredient (Cuba Gooding Vs The Chi-Lites) Live In Concert

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The Main Ingredient

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The Main Ingredient toiled in obscurity for the better part of the '60s before making it big as a sweet, romantic soul outfit with a particular flair for ballads. Paced by the impassioned lead vocals of Cuba Gooding during their prime hitmaking years, the group is best remembered for their 1972 classic "Everybody Plays the Fool," but released a number of other fine singles, mostly during the first half of the '70s. The group was formed in Harlem in 1964 as a trio called the Poets, composed of lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, Jr., and Panama-born Tony Silvester. Th...
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