Post by Queenie on May 4, 2004 8:07:34 GMT -5
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I bought David's Ultimate Collection and enjoy reading the linar notes. I like to share with fans what artist thinks about DER.
The distance between a good singer and a great one is, like the distance between heaven and earth, a matter of perspective. A good singer has a personality; a great one has a persona.
Aretha Franklin : David Ruffin is one of a hanful of first-rate soul singers to come out of the sixities. And when I say soul singers, I mean that as the highest compliment.
Marvin Gaye: David was one of the true artist of Motown.
The magnificence of Ruffin's gospel-trained voice was enough to gain him the affection of several generations of listeners. But Ruffin had more than a voice. The man was born on January 18, 1941, in Whyknot, Mississippi, had an attitude that turned him into one of the decade's most compelling leading men. There was a terrible beauty about the best of David's music, a sense of doom and tragic fate. Ruffin was the man whose world was about to end, who was walking away from love, heavy love, into a world of darkness.
There are, of course, two essential periods of Ruffin's recordings. The first was his role as The Temptations lead singer. His renditions of "Ain't Too Proud To Be," and his solo work "My Whole World Ended" will be classics in American Pop Culture.
