The Main Ingredient

In the early-1990s, Gooding reassumed his solo career, and in 1999, Silverman and Simmons resurrected The Main Ingredient with Carlton Blount as the new lead singer. John and Linda Ronstadt, to name a few. Simmons left the group again after 1986, and was replaced with Jerome Jackson. Stoltz had been the guitarist for The Neville Brothers during the '80s and during the '90s had done session work with record with Bob Dylan, Edie Brickell, Dr. The lineup of Gooding, Simmons, and Silverman reunited twice, once from 1979 to 1982, and again in 1986, but their releases were not as successful as the 1970s hits were. Russell has recorded with Allan Toussaint, Robbie Robertson, and Harry Connick, Jr. In 1994, the departure of Leo Nocentelli led to them inviting old friend Brian Stoltz into the fold as guitarist. Gooding garnered a solo deal with Motown, while Simmons became a stockbroker. on drums.

He was replaced with Carl Tompkins, but the group disbanded a year later. The Meters reformed with the new official name "The Funky Meters" after an informal jam during the 1989 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival replacing Joseph (Zigaboo) Modeliste with David Russell Batiste, Jr. Later in 1976, Silverman quit the group for both a solo career and to start a production company with Bert DeCoteaux. The band broke up in 1977 after Toussaint claimed the rights to the name and they played as various incarnations of the Neville Brothers and with other bands. Another gold single, "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely", hit the pop Top Ten in 1974, and the disco-based "Rolling Down a Mountainside" hit the R&B Top Ten in 1976. This was followed by a collaboration with George & Amos Landry and the Neville Brothers, The Wild Tchoupitoulas. His first single with the group was 1972's "Everybody Plays the Fool", a gold selling single that hit the Top 5 on both the pop and R&B singles charts. They released a critically-acclaimed album, Fire on the Bayou, in 1975.

and Omar Gooding, as its new lead singer. John, Paul McCartney, King Biscuit Boy, Labelle and Robert Palmer. McPherson passed away suddenly from leukemia in 1971, and The Main Ingredient recruited Cuba Gooding, Sr., the father of actors Cuba Gooding, Jr. After a label shift in 1972, the Meters had difficulty returning to the charts, though they played on many important records by Dr. Follow-up hits such as "I'm So Proud" ( a cover version of an Impressions song), "Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love)", and "Black Seeds Keep on Growing" did even better on the charts. "Look-Ka Py Py" and "Chicken Strut" were also hits the following year. The group affiliated themselves with producer Bert DeCoteaux, who crafted their first US Top 30 hit, "You've Been My Inspiration". In 1969, the Meters released "Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut", both major R&B chart hits.

By 1966, the yhad changed their name a third and final time, to "The Main Ingredient". The Meters formed in the late '60s, and became the house band for Sansu Enterprises, an Allen Toussaint-owned label. After recording for a minor local label called , they changed their name to "The Insiders" and got a deal with RCA Records. Art Neville, the group's frontman, launched a solo career around the New Orleans area in the early 1960s. The original members of the group were lead singer Donald McPherson, Luther Simmons Jr., and Tony Silvester, who called their group "The Poets". While the band never enjoyed huge popular success, it was nonetheless greatly admired by conoscenti and is considered one of progenitors of funk in the 1970s. The group was founded in Harlem, New York in 1964. It was based in New Orleans.

The Main Ingredient is an American soul and R&B group, most popular during the 1970s. The Meters was a band that performed and recorded from the late 1960s until 1977.