The Main Ingredient

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Everybody Plays the Fool 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely 03:40 Tools
Happiness Is Just Around The Bend 06:22 Tools
Work to Do 03:19 Tools
Euphrates 04:43 Tools
Summer Breeze 04:16 Tools
I'm So Proud 03:33 Tools
Let Me Prove My Love To You 03:40 Tools
Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling In Love) 03:13 Tools
Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
You've Been My Inspiration 02:52 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool - Remastered 03:22 Tools
Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing 04:07 Tools
Rolling Down a Mountainside 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love 04:29 Tools
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely - 1996 Remastered 00:00 Tools
Something 'Bout Love 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Re-Recorded) 00:00 Tools
California My Way 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 03:35 Tools
Superwoman 00:00 Tools
Where were you when I needed you 00:00 Tools
I'm Better Off Without You 00:00 Tools
I Am Yours 00:00 Tools
Make It With You 03:49 Tools
That Ain't My Style 04:12 Tools
Black Seeds Keep On Growing 03:31 Tools
You've Got To Take It (If You Want It) 00:00 Tools
Magic Shoes 02:49 Tools
Looks Like Rain 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Have You Ever Tried It 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love to You 00:00 Tools
That's What Fate Will Do 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996) 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'm Leaving This Time 00:00 Tools
Get Back 00:00 Tools
Don't Wonder Why 00:00 Tools
Party People 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool - Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996 03:22 Tools
The Girl I Left Behind 00:00 Tools
You Can Call Me Rover 00:00 Tools
It's So Sweet (Loving You) 00:00 Tools
I Want to Make You Glad 00:00 Tools
Baby Change Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
You Ain't Got It No Way 00:00 Tools
Shame On The World 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Spinning Around 00:00 Tools
Goodbye My Love 00:00 Tools
Something Lovely 00:00 Tools
Of This I'm Sure 00:00 Tools
Just Dont Want To Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
With You 00:00 Tools
black seeds 00:00 Tools
i only have eyes for you 00:00 Tools
Instant Love 04:14 Tools
Somebody's Been Sleeping 00:00 Tools
Searching 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You (Sampled For 'You Don't Know My Name' By Alicia Keys) 00:00 Tools
California My Way (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is Just Around The Bend (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
Ready For Love 05:26 Tools
Look At Me 00:00 Tools
Over You 00:00 Tools
I Can't See Me Without You 00:00 Tools
Where Are You 00:00 Tools
Can't Stand Your Love 00:00 Tools
Spoiled 03:49 Tools
Need Her Love 00:00 Tools
Put Your Love In My Hands 00:00 Tools
Fly Baby Fly 00:00 Tools
Good Old Days 00:00 Tools
Whirlwind 00:00 Tools
No Tears (In The End) 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely [Full Version] 00:00 Tools
save me 00:00 Tools
Everything Man 00:00 Tools
Rediscover Me 00:00 Tools
Traveling 02:59 Tools
Evening of Love (feat. Cuba Gooding) 00:00 Tools
Love of My Life 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - From the Musical Production "The Roar of the Grease Paint - The Smell of the Crowd" 00:00 Tools
Lillian 00:00 Tools
all because of you 00:00 Tools
Old Greyhound 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You (You Don't Know My Name) 00:00 Tools
If I'm Gonna Be Sad 00:00 Tools
Think Positive 00:00 Tools
Brotherly Love 00:00 Tools
Just Say It Again 03:33 Tools
Jamaica (Let Me Go Home) 03:16 Tools
just once 00:00 Tools
Only 00:00 Tools
What A Miracle Can Do 00:00 Tools
I Was Born To Lose 00:00 Tools
Movin' On 00:00 Tools
Another Day Has Come 00:00 Tools
Thanks For The Laughs 00:00 Tools
Let Me Prove My Love 00:00 Tools
Car Of Love 00:00 Tools
Summer Breeze ['Things Done Changed'] 00:00 Tools
Family Man 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You ['You Don't Know My Name'] 00:00 Tools
Where Do Broken Hearted Lovers Go? 02:54 Tools
Where Are You - Remastered 00:00 Tools
I've found Someone Of My Own 00:00 Tools
California My Way ['Things Done Changed'] 00:00 Tools
Why Can't We All Unite 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
You & Me - Me & You 00:00 Tools
You Are The Love Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Life Won't Be The Same (Without You) 00:00 Tools
The Good Old Days 00:00 Tools
Need Her Love (Mr Bugler) 00:00 Tools
I've Fallen For You 00:00 Tools
You've Got To Take It (If You Want It) - Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996 00:00 Tools
Evil Ways 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To? 00:00 Tools
Everything Man [7 Inch Version] 00:00 Tools
Makes No Difference To Me 00:00 Tools
Catchin' The Fever 00:00 Tools
Everybody Play 00:00 Tools
With You ['Why You Hate The Game'] 00:00 Tools
You've Got To Take It (If You Want It) (Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996) 00:00 Tools
By the time i get to phoenix / wichita lineman 00:00 Tools
Travelling 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) 00:00 Tools
Where Do Broken Hearted Lovers 02:47 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
A Broken Heart Don't Really Break 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Re-recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
You've Got to Take It 03:28 Tools
Where Are You - Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996 00:00 Tools
I Gotta Know You 00:00 Tools
Where Are You (Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996) 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is Just Round the Bend 00:00 Tools
Who You Really Are 00:00 Tools
The Laughing Song 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely - (1996 Remastered) 00:00 Tools
No Tears 00:00 Tools
rediscover me (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Half A Chance 00:00 Tools
With You (1980) 00:00 Tools
Can't Get Ready (For Losing You) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Re-Recorded) [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
Broken Heart Don't Really Break 00:00 Tools
Una Bella Melodia Braziliania 00:00 Tools
Comes The Night 00:00 Tools
01 - Euphrates River 00:00 Tools
Many Women In My Life 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Re-record / Remasterd) 00:00 Tools
Do Me Right 00:00 Tools
What a Miracle Can Do (feat. Cuba Gooding) 00:00 Tools
Prologue 00:00 Tools
I Just Wanna Love You 04:10 Tools
Don't You Worry About A Thing 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Wan't To Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Euphrates River 00:00 Tools
Una Bella Melodia Brazilania 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely [1996 Remastered] 00:00 Tools
No Tears (In the End) - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Just Don´t Want To Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Party People (feat. Cuba Gooding) 00:00 Tools
I Was Born To Lose You 00:00 Tools
01-Main Ingredient-Euphrates 00:00 Tools
Just Don’t Want To Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
I´m So Proud 00:00 Tools
What Can A Miracle Do 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn (When Nobody Needs Me) 00:00 Tools
Think Positive featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Ready For Love featuring Cuba Gooding 05:13 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool ('72) 00:00 Tools
Evil Ways featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
everybody 00:00 Tools
I CAN'T GO FOR THAT 00:00 Tools
Rediscover Me - Reprise 00:00 Tools
Shame On The World (Full Version) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Singalong Version with Background Vocals) 00:00 Tools
Party People featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love (Fingerman edit) 00:00 Tools
Won't Let You Do That to Me 00:00 Tools
03-Main Ingredient-Summer Breeze 00:00 Tools
Pleasurekraft - Richard Dinsdale Remix 00:00 Tools
by the time i get to phoenix 00:00 Tools
02-Main Ingredient-Have You Ever Tried It 00:00 Tools
Magic Shoes ['Fakin the Funk'] 00:00 Tools
Think Positive (feat. Cuba Gooding) 00:00 Tools
Where Are You (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Don't You Worry Bout A Thing 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love feat. Cuba Goo 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is... 00:00 Tools
Happeness Is Just Around The Bend 00:00 Tools
04-Main Ingredient-California My Way 00:00 Tools
Make It With You [Boog Brown & Apollo Brown - 'My Love'] 00:00 Tools
I'll Do for You 00:00 Tools
Happiness Is Just Around The Bend [Greg Wilson Edit] 00:00 Tools
07-Main Ingredient-Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing 00:00 Tools
Where Do Broken Hearted Lovers Go 00:00 Tools
Main Ingredient-Do Me Right (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
06-Main Ingredient-Looks Like Rain 00:00 Tools
You And Me-Me And You 00:00 Tools
Main Ingredient-Do Me Right 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Full Version) 03:22 Tools
I Just Dont Wanna Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Magic 02:49 Tools
The Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool 00:00 Tools
Spoken interlude (shout out to some key players) 00:00 Tools
Catchin' The Fever featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
What A Miracle Can Do featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Everybody Play's The Fool 00:00 Tools
If You Had a Heart 00:00 Tools
Everbody Plays The Fool (Re-Recorded / Remastered) 00:00 Tools
08-Main Ingredient-Just Don't Want To Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
With You featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Group Singalong Version) 00:00 Tools
I Must Be Falling In Love 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Foo 00:00 Tools
Do Me Right (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
I Love You (The Letter) 00:00 Tools
It's Alright 00:00 Tools
Will you marry me 00:00 Tools
I'm Just a Man 00:00 Tools
Surrender 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool Sometimes 00:00 Tools
The Dance 00:00 Tools
Never Give Up On Love 00:00 Tools
The Main Ingredient - Just Don't Want to Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
You & Me_Me & You 00:00 Tools
When We Need It Bad 00:00 Tools
ipod, Everybody Plays the Fool 00:00 Tools
We Got Us 00:00 Tools
Our Business 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool - Main Ingredient 03:22 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (Rerecorded) 00:00 Tools
Just Say You Will 00:00 Tools
Meant To Be In Love 00:00 Tools
Car Of Love ['Intro-A Million and One Questions-Rhyme No More' and 'Friend or Foe 98'] 00:00 Tools
Main Ingredients - Summer Breeze 00:00 Tools
Nothing's Too Good For My Baby 00:00 Tools
Why Should I 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love (Fingermanedit) 00:00 Tools
Spoiled featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool (72) 03:22 Tools
You Ain't Got It Know Way 00:00 Tools
Magic Shoes ['On the Way'] 00:00 Tools
By Any Means Necessary 00:00 Tools
Half A Chance ['Doin Me'] 00:00 Tools
Very White 00:00 Tools
the good old days (do you remember) 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love (U Don't Know My Name) 00:00 Tools
Need Her Love (Mr. Bugler) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (feat. Cuba Gooding Sr.) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (5x10) 00:00 Tools
Makes No Difference To Me featuring Cuba Gooding 00:00 Tools
main ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool 03:22 Tools
Hapiness Is Just Around The Bend 00:00 Tools
Everybody Play's the Fool Sometimes 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love (7" Version) 00:00 Tools
Main Ingredient-Everybody Play 05:35 Tools
Cant Stand Your Love 00:00 Tools
Pleasurekraft (Richard Dinsdale Remix) 00:00 Tools
Happiness Just Around Bend 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool - Rerecorded 00:00 Tools
Summer Breeze [The Apple Scruffs Edit] 00:00 Tools
How Long 00:00 Tools
Just Dont Wanna Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool, Sometime 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool - The Main Ingredient 00:00 Tools
Every Body Plays the Fool 00:00 Tools
You And Me - Me And You 00:00 Tools
just around the bend 00:00 Tools
Spinning Aroung 00:00 Tools
I cant stand your love 00:00 Tools
Spinning Around (I'm Must Be Falling in Love) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays Fool 00:00 Tools
Let Me Prove My Love To You [newmaidumosa](192CBR) 00:00 Tools
Spinning Around(I Must Be Falling In Love) 00:00 Tools
Euphrates River LP - Looks Like Rain 00:00 Tools
I’ve Found someone of my own 00:00 Tools
No Tears (In the End) (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
That Aint My Style 04:12 Tools
Everybody Plays a Fool (Mix Version) 00:00 Tools
Just Don't WantTo Be Lonely 00:00 Tools
Spinning Around (I Must Falling In Love) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool [Remastered at BMG Studios, 1996] 00:00 Tools
i'm better off without you - the insiders 00:00 Tools
Magic Shoes ['Funky 2 Listen 2'] 00:00 Tools
By The Time I Get To Phoenix-Wichita Lineman 00:00 Tools
California My Way [ Things Done Changed ] 00:00 Tools
13.just don't want to be lonely - main ingredient 00:00 Tools
Just Don't Want to Be Lonely -1974 00:00 Tools
A5-By The Time I Get To Phoenix 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You (You Don' 00:00 Tools
let me prove my love to you (alicia keys - u don't know my name) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Karaoke Mix) 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love 00:00 Tools
IF I WERE YOUR WOMAN 00:00 Tools
Evening Of Love (Secret Sun Dancefloor Edit) 00:00 Tools
Spinning Around (I Must Be Fal 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays The Fool [1972] 00:00 Tools
Let Me Prove My Love To You (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) [From "The Roar of the Grease Paint - The Smell of the Crowd"] 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You (You Don 00:00 Tools
Wark To Do 00:00 Tools
Evening of love (Breixo Edit) 00:00 Tools
Black Seeds Keep on Going 00:00 Tools
Car of Love (Friend or Foe 98) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Karaoke Mix) 00:00 Tools
A2-You've Been My Inspiration 00:00 Tools
Just don`t want to be lonely 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool '72 00:00 Tools
Prove My Love To You (You Don't) 00:00 Tools
All Because Of You (1981) 00:00 Tools
Everybody Plays the Fool (Studio Re-Record) 00:00 Tools
B5-Get Back 00:00 Tools
Rolling DownA Mountainside 00:00 Tools
A4-Magic Shoes 00:00 Tools
i'm just a man - the insiders 00:00 Tools
MUSIC BEHIND DJ: Everybody Plays The Fool (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
14 Dont You Worry 'Bout A Thing 00:00 Tools
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The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group best known for their 1972 hit song "Everybody Plays the Fool". The group was formed in Harlem, New York City in 1964 as a trio called the Poets, composed of lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons, Jr., and Panama-born Tony Silvester. They made their first recordings for Leiber & Stoller's Red Bird label, but soon changed their name to the Insiders and signed with RCA Records. In 1968, after a couple of singles, they changed their name once again, this time permanently, to the Main Ingredient. The name came from a Coke bottle. They then teamed up with record producer/arranger Bert DeCoteaux. Under his direction, the Main Ingredient reached the R&B Top 30 for the first time in 1970 with "You've Been My Inspiration". A cover of The Impressions' "I'm So Proud" broke the Top 20, and "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)" went into the Top 10. In 1971, they scored again, with the McPherson-penned black-power anthem "Black Seeds Keep on Growing," but tragedy struck that year. Don McPherson, who had suddenly taken ill with leukemia, died unexpectedly. Stunned, Tony Silvester and Luther Simmons re-grouped with new lead singer Cuba Gooding, Sr., who had served as a backing vocalist on some of their previous recordings and had filled in on tour during McPherson's brief illness. The Gooding era began auspiciously with the million-selling smash "Everybody Plays the Fool", which hit number two R&B and number three pop to become the group's biggest hit. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in September 1972. The accompanying album, Bitter Sweet, became their first to hit the Top 10 on the R&B album chart; its follow-up, 1973's Afrodisiac, featured several songs written or co-written by Stevie Wonder, although it did not produce any huge successes on the singles charts. They peaked at number eight on the R&B chart in 1974 with "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely", which sold over a million copies,and also reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. The track peaked at number twenty-seven in the UK Singles Chart in July 1974, although it was their only chart presence in the UK. In 1975, the group recorded several songs co-written by Leon Ware, including the R&B Top Ten "Rolling Down a Mountainside". By this point, however, Tony Silvester was harboring other ambitions; he released a solo album called Magic Touch that year, and left the group to form a production team with DeCoteaux. The two of them scored a Top 10 Pop and R&B smash with their production of Ben E. King's hit "Supernatural Thing" in 1975. Silvester was replaced by Carl Tompkins, and Gooding departed for a solo career on Motown in 1977, which produced two albums; Simmons, meanwhile, left the music industry to work as a stockbroker. Gooding, Silvester and Simmons reunited as the Main Ingredient in 1979, and recorded two more albums, 1980's Ready for Love and 1981's I Only Have Eyes for You (the latter featured a minor hit in "Evening of Love"). The trio reunited for a second time in 1986, but their Zakia single "Do Me Right" flopped, and Simmons returned to his day job. He was replaced by Jerome Jackson on the 1989 Polydor album I Just Wanna Love You. In the wake of Aaron Neville's Top Ten revival of "Everybody Plays the Fool", Gooding resumed his solo career and issued his third album in 1993. Silvester and Simmons re-formed the Main Ingredient in 1999 with new lead singer Carlton Blount; this line-up recorded Pure Magic in 2001. Tony Silvester died after a six-year struggle with multiple myeloma on November 27, 2006, at the age of 65, and original member Luther Simmons retired shortly thereafter. Cuba Gooding Sr. was found dead in his car on April 20, 2017. The current line-up of the group consists of Jerome Jackson, and Stanley Alston. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.