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JonnyCoop got me thinking with the comments about Connie Francis in the What Song Are You Listening to Now thread. There are lots of singers who didn't get the recognition they deserved. Maybe they were lost in a group, bad management kept them from the record deal where they would shine, drugs got to them, or they refused to sleep with Berry Gordy or Phil Spector . Turn the rest of us on to the voices you love.
My favorite singer of all times is the late David Ruffin of Temptations. This guy could sing the phone book and it would sound good. The Tempts didn't have a breakout hit until he hooked up with them in 1964. Success, ego, and drugs caused infighting and his departure from the group. Though still under contract to Motown, Berry Gordy held his work and released it on Motown's lessor labels. Ruffin had short lived reunions with The Tempts and toured with former Tempts Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards until his death from a drug overdose in 1991.
My favorite singer of all times is the late David Ruffin of Temptations. This guy could sing the phone book and it would sound good. The Tempts didn't have a breakout hit until he hooked up with them in 1964. Success, ego, and drugs caused infighting and his departure from the group. Though still under contract to Motown, Berry Gordy held his work and released it on Motown's lessor labels. Ruffin had short lived reunions with The Tempts and toured with former Tempts Eddie Kendricks and Dennis Edwards until his death from a drug overdose in 1991.