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At His Best by David Ruffin released in 1978. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Released. 1977 — US. Vinyl —. LP, Album, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1978 Vinyl release of "...At His Best" on Discogs.
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- My Whole World Ended
- I Could Never Love Another
- I’m So Glad I Fell For You
- Smiling Faces Sometimes
- I’ve Lost Everything I’ve Ever Loved
- Beauty’s only Skin Deep
- Flower Child
- 13
- Your Love Was Worth Waiting For
- Blood Donors Needed
David launched his post-Temptations career with this thrilling shard of 1969 Motown. It’s big, passionate and warm, with the voice that made The Temptations major stars in superb and desolate individual form. A Top 10 US hit, it suggested Ruffin would find a solo career smooth sailing. Alas, that was not to be; it would take David six years to matc...
A fantastic showcase for David: until the track progresses, it’s almost like a Ruffin solo performance. It was to be the Tempts’ final single with his voice out front – and, living up to the title, he never did join another group (though he reunited with The Temptations in 1982). After 1968, things would never be quite the same for both the singer ...
Ruffin’s second solo album, Feelin’ Good (1969), is often regarded as inferior to his debut, but it has its moments, such as this gutsy, gospel-powered song of redemption – though the love that has saved him appears to be an earthly one, not a heavenly one. Uplifted by organ lines and the Hal Davis chorus, Ruffin’s performance is riveting.
David Ruffin had plenty of competition when it came to this song. Its co-writer and producer, Norman Whitfield, had already made it a hit with The Undisputed Truth; he also gave it to Ruffin’s former group, The Temptations, and his rockier protégés, Rare Earth, cut a moody version with Latin overtones. But nobody delivered it with as much heart as ...
From David’s first solo album, My Whole World Ended, a fine floating Motown marvel written by Johnny Bristol. It was released as a single but was perhaps too similar to its hit predecessor to score. All the same, a damn fine soul record from 1969.
The Temptations were not the first group to record this song, but they were the ones who scored a hit with it in 1966. David delivers the lead part… like a beauty. It’s worth seeking out brother Jimmy Ruffin’s version for comparison: the arrangement on the Tempts’ cut is superior, its tinkling xylophone contrasting sharply with the blasts of brass ...
A psychedelic soul blossom from David’s debut album – with either The Temptations in vocal support, or someone doing a great impersonation of them! The lead vocal is fabulous, while, somewhere in the background, the riff from Marvin Gaye’s “One More Heartache” is discretely repurposed. This driving track may have received little acclaim, but it’s a...
The ability to express desperation was one quality that David Ruffin brought to The Temptations, as this tale of love turning sour makes clear. A Top 10 hit in 1967, these two-and-a-half minutes of emotional agony is just one of many reasons why soul fans rate the Tempts as one of the greatest of all time.
In 1970 David teamed up with his brother Jimmy, of “What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted” fame, to cut an album, I Am My Brother’s Keeper, from which this gloriously soulful and spacious song is drawn. Written by Pam Sawyer and Leon Ware, you can hear something of the feel of Marvin Gaye’s early-70s classic albums in this magnificent track.
Tough grooves from 1973: the city turns violent after dark. This song does not pull its punches, and the album it is drawn from, David Ruffin, produced and mostly written by Bobby Miller, is highly underrated. David proves totally suited to the funky situation. The lyric was adapted by the reggae singer Jimmy Riley for the roots single “Darkness On...
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Listen to David Ruffin ...At His Best on Spotify. David Ruffin · Compilation · 1978 · 10 songs.
Listen to David Ruffin: At His Best by David Ruffin on Apple Music. 1973. 10 Songs. Duration: 30 minutes.
