We're rolling along here, back on the Soul Train to the number 29 song of that year by the Main Ingredient. I liked it then and I think it holds up now.
"Everybody Plays the Fool" I thought was this group's one and only hit, but it turns out they had another one in 1974, "I Just Don't Want to Be Lonely". If you recognize the lead singer for "TMI" its because he is Cuba Gooding, Sr., the father--not surprisingly-- of Cuba Gooding, Jr., the popular actor around today in a number of movies, mostly comedies, and whose biggest hit was as the "show me the money!" football star in "Jerry McGuire" back in 1997.
So here's the "Soul Train" intro from Don Corneilius, the coolest guy on day time television back then.
Hahaha, I post this song often on my page, then take it down....... everytime you see it there you know I was playing a fool, or played FOR a fool!!! In 1972 I was either ending junior year or starting senior year of high school.
ReplyDeleteOnce again I was only 8. I do enjoy this song
ReplyDeleteI was 6! So was in a very small town in Ohio playing in the yard! I remember the song and still love it!!
ReplyDeleteI was coming into 7th grade, back when it was still called junior high. Little did I know I would "play the fool" myself quite a few times in my romantic teens and twenties.
ReplyDeleteHave you stopped? My wife calls me a fool on a fairly regular basis
ReplyDeleteA good point. It never really ends,does it?
ReplyDeleteNo then you have 18 year old daughters and you become stupid as well
ReplyDeleteOuch! You have my sympathy.
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