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...