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He was also developing a film project called Everybody Plays the Fool: The Cuba Gooding Story. Gooding released a single called "Politics" in September 2007. In 1991, samples from the song also featured prominently in Bizarre Inc's single "Playing With Knives". In 1980, Gooding returned to The Main Ingredient and made two more albums for RCA Victor. His biggest international success was Brian Auger's "Happiness Is Just Around the Bend" in 1983, which has in recent times been sampled by several R&B artists, as well as hitting the charts again as a remix by UK Hardcore Rave group Altern-8 in 1991. 1 He had a brief solo career on Motown Records during the late 1970s and early 1980s making two albums the first was titled The 1st Cuba Gooding Album. Gooding left The Main Ingredient in either 1977 or 1978. The 1973 album Afrodisiac featured several songs co-written by Stevie Wonder. He became the lead singer after lead singer Donald McPherson died of leukemia in 1971. joined The Main Ingredient as a back-up vocalist.

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Gooding's father was a taxi driver in Manhattan. His father died when Cuba was 11 years old. When she was murdered because of their affiliation with Pan Africanist leader Marcus Garvey, Dudley Gooding promised his wife on her deathbed that he would name his first son Cuba. The elder Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, and met and married a woman there. Early life īorn in Harlem, New York City, Gooding was a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding (1890–1955) and his wife Addie Alston. He also recorded as a solo artist with hits of his own. " Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974), "Happiness Is Just Around the Bend" and "Rolling Down a Mountainside" were also top 10 hits on Billboard charts. According to Billboard, as the lead vocalist he scored five top 10 hits, most notably, " Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972), peaking at No. He was the most successful lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, replacing former lead singer Donald McPherson who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1971.













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