50+ Music<p>"Everybody Plays the Fool" is a 1972 song first recorded by American R&B group <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TheMainIngredient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheMainIngredient</span></a>, and written by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JRBailey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JRBailey</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RudyClark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RudyClark</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KenWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KenWilliams</span></a>. It was the first <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/single" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>single</span></a> released from the group's album <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/BitterSweet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BitterSweet</span></a>, released with the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Bside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bside</span></a> "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WhoCanITurnToWhenNobodyNeedsMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoCanITurnToWhenNobodyNeedsMe</span></a>". "Everybody Plays the Fool" was the group's highest charting hit single, reaching No. 3 on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Billboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Billboard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Hot100" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hot100</span></a> chart in the fall of 1972. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i72cbo_qdg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=7i72cbo_qdg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>