Cuba Gooding Sr.
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Cuba M. Gooding Sr. (1944 - 2017)

Cuba M. Gooding Sr.
Born in New York City, New York, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of [private wife (1940s - unknown)]
Descendants descendants
Father of [private daughter (1960s - unknown)], , and [private son (1980s - unknown)]
Died at age 72 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USAmap
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Cuba Gooding Sr. was an American singer.[1]

Cuba Gooding was born in New York City in 1944. He was the son of Dudley Gooding and Addie Alston. He married Shirley Sullivan in 1968 in New York.[2] They divorced in 1985,[3] but remarried in 1995[4] and remained married until his death. They had four children.

He died in Woodland Hills, California in 2017 and is buried inTrinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in Manhattan.[5]

Cuba was the lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, most notable for its two biggest hits, "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972) and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974).

He had a brief solo career on Motown Records during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His biggest international success was Brian Auger's "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 by UK Hardcore Rave group Altern-8 in 1991. In the same year, samples from the song also featured prominently in Bizarre Inc's single "Playing With Knives".

Sources

  1. Wikipedia:Cuba_Gooding_Sr.
  2. Marriage: "New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018"
    New York City Municipal Archives; New York, New York; Borough: Manhattan
    Ancestry Record 61406 #904460590 (accessed 2 January 2023)
    Shirley Sullivan marriage to Cuba Gooding in 1968 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
  3. Divorce: "Nevada, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968-2015"
    Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital Records. Nevada Divorce Index, 1968-2005. Carson City, Nevada: Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital Records
    Ancestry Record 1090 #619735 (accessed 2 January 2023)
    Shirelly Gooding divorce from Cuba Gooding on 15 Feb 1985 in Clark, Nevada, USA.
  4. Marriage: "Nevada, U.S., Marriage Index, 1956-2005"
    Book: 818; Page: C624025
    Ancestry Record 1100 #1799595 (accessed 2 January 2023)
    Shirley Temple Gooding marriage to Cuba Gooding on 16 Apr 1995.
  5. Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #178615230
    Memorial page for Cuba Gooding Sr. Famous memorial (27 Apr 1944-20 Apr 2017), citing Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
  • 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
    United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: New York, New York, New York; Roll: 4545; Sheet Number: 39; Enumeration District: 31-1661
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #288189321
    Cuba Gooding (6), single son, in household of Dudley Gooding (54) in New York, New York, New York, USA. Born in New York.

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Cuba Gooding's father was Dudley Macdonald Gooding, born December 1888/9 and died 13 April 1955. The father that is currently attached to the profile is private and born in the 1920s. Can this be fixed?
Gooding-488 and Gooding-487 appear to represent the same person because: Same profile added twice of Cuba_Gooding_Sr.]

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posted by [Living Sälgö]

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