Cuba Gooding, Sr. (born April 27 1944 in New York City, New York) is a soul singer, lead singer of soul group The Main Ingredient. His group is most notable for their two biggest hits, "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972) and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974). He also had a brief solo career on Motown Records during the late-1970s and early-1980s, his biggest international success was "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 in 1991.

Gooding and his wife, singer Shirley Gooding, are the parents of actors Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Omar Gooding, and later became a minor actor himself.

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1944 births | Living people | Soul musicians | Rhythm and blues musicians | Motown performers

Cuba Gooding Sr.