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The Main Ingredient

Funk
Soul music
Contemporary R&B
Best known for their 1972 US hit 'Everybody Plays the Fool', the Harlem-based New York soul band The Main Ingredient started out life in 1964 as 'The Poets' until, inspired by the product label on a bottle of Coca Cola, the band changed their name. Early in their career the band wrote what was to become an anthem for the black-power political movement, the song 'Black Seeds Keep On Growing'. The track was written by founding member Donald McPherson who tragically died of leukemia in 1971 just as the band were on the cusp of major success. McPherson was replaced by Cuba Go...
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Everybody Plays The FoolThe Main Ingredient
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Just Don't Want to Be LonelyThe Main Ingredient
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Everybody Plays The FoolThe Main Ingredient
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You've Been My InspirationThe Main Ingredient
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Happiness Is Just Around the BendThe Main Ingredient
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Magic ShoesThe Main Ingredient
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Everybody Plays The FoolThe Main Ingredient

Bitter Sweet

3:22

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Just Don't Want to Be LonelyThe Main Ingredient

Euphrates River

3:33

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Everybody Plays The FoolThe Main Ingredient

Bitter Sweet

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You've Been My InspirationThe Main Ingredient

L.T.D.

2:53

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Happiness Is Just Around the BendThe Main Ingredient

Euphrates River

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Magic ShoesThe Main Ingredient

L.T.D.

2:48

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