Artist
The Main Ingredient
The Main Ingredient is a musical artist formed in 1964. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
- 30
- Releases
- 1970–2024
- Active years
- 1964
- Formed
Artist
The Main Ingredient is a musical artist formed in 1964. 30 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Most popular
Euphrates River
1974
Afrodisiac
1973
Shame on the World
1975
Bitter Sweet
1972
Tasteful Soul
1970
Black Seeds
1971
L.T.D.
1970
The Main Ingredient (Cuba Gooding Vs The Chi-Lites) Live In Concert
2021
The Essential Main Ingredient
2019
Rolling Down a Mountainside
2015
Music Maximus
2015
I Only Have Eyes for You (feat. Cuba Gooding)
2015
Ready For Love (feat. Cuba Gooding)
2012
Happiness Is Just Around The Bend & Other Favorites
2011
I Only Have Eyes For You / Shame On The World
2009
Everybody Plays The Fool: The Best Of The Main Ingredient
2001
A Quiet Storm
1996
I Only Have Eyes For You
1981
Meant to Be in Love
Single · 2024
Everybody Plays The Fool / Just Don't Want to be Lonely
Single · 2023
Everybody Plays the Fool (Re-Recorded - Sped Up)
Single · 2023
Just Don't Want To Be Lonely
Single · 2011
Happiness Is Just Around The Bend
Single · 2011
California My Way
Single · 2011
Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling In Love)
Single · 2011
You've Been My Inspiration
Single · 2011
You've Got To Take It (If You Want It)
Single · 2011
Everybody Plays The Fool
Single · 2011
I'm So Proud
Single · 2011
Everybody Plays The Fool (Re-Recorded / Remastered)
Single · 2009
The Main Ingredient is 1) an American soul and R&B group best know for their 1972 hit song, "Everybody Plays the Fool" and 2) a sample-based hip hop producer born in South Jersey. Early History The group was formed in Harlem, NY 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. After a couple of singles, they changed their name once again in 1966, this time permanently to the Main Ingredient. Nothing much happened until the Main Ingredient hooked up with producer Bert DeCoteaux, who had an excellent sense of the lush, orchestrated direction soul music would take in the early '70s. Under his direction, the Main Ingredient reached the R&B Top 30 for the first time in 1970 with "You've Been My Inspiration." Things grew steadily from there; a cover of the Impressions' "I'm So Proud" broke the Top 20, and "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)" went Top Ten. They scored again with the McPherson-penned black power anthem "Black Seeds Keep on Growing," but tragedy st…