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The main ingredients to this 1972 single were a catchy piano-and-flute lick and a lead vocal by Cuba Gooding Sr. “Everybody Plays the Fool” shot up the pop charts and earned the Main Ingredient a Grammy nomination for best R&B song, although it lost out to the Temptations’ “Papa Was a Rolling Stone.”
You may think I’m silly to love a man twice my age, the Southern soul singer Candi Staton sings on her first hit, from 1969. Let’s hear her out: An old man will just sit and talk, “but a young man is somewhere busy doing the camel walk.”
It’s unfortunate to name your band after an Egyptian goddess only to later have the word come to be associated with… other things. I’m not going to let it stop me from highlighting this funky, horn-heavy track from the all-female rock group’s self-titled 1974 album. That drum break deserves to be sampled somewhere other than on an obscure De La Soul rarity.
I intended to put Ricky Nelson here, but then ran across this fun cover by Bow Wow Wow, the new-wave band formed by Malcolm McLaren and best known for “I Want Candy.” (That one almost made my Halloween Amplifier playlist.)
As essentially a rock kid who was dance-music-curious, when I heard “Fools Gold” and tracks by the Stone Roses’ contemporaries like the Happy Mondays and Primal Scream, I at least caught a glimpse of what the 24-hour party people were up to. This 1989 single stretches to almost 10 minutes, and I could groove on it for twice as long. No fooling.
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