Posted on 06/01/2006 6:48:31 PM PDT by eleni121
There will only be one David Ruffin and the group he led - The Temptations. Ruffin died today 15 years ago of a drug overdose. His driver took him to the hospital and dropped him off. At first no one knew who he was...a few days later family members claimed his body.
There are lot of websites dedicated to The Temptations, David Ruffin, Motown music, and the era that produced the music.
The first song on my CD player tonight was "Since I Lost My Baby".
Love the Temps.
Yes I did listen to Holloway and The Elgins...beautiful magnificent creative stuff! What voices and great arrangements!
It's a real shame that Motown will not release a decent remastered concert DVD with the orginal Tempts or most of these great groups. We are forced to scrounge around for bits and pieces.
I cannot understand their rationale.
"Since I Lost My Baby".
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Oh that's a work of genius written by Smokey Robinson. Luther Vandross did in again in 1982.
At this moment...I'm listening to The Manhattens...Let's just Kiss and Say Goodbye.
Today's music does not touch the late 60s, early 70s.
I don't understand it either. My guess would be that with the various ownership changes of rights to the Motown label over the years, there is probably a lot of litigation keeping it off the shelves. How great would it be to have a couple of two-hour DVDs of Motown acts in their prime?
What music today? It's derivative and trite..not to mention a cartload of you know what.
It's noise not music.
Check out this Brenda Holloway song.
http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/asc24/index.html#holloway
I walked into a 7-11 recently. Their store radio was playing a recent remake of 'You're My Everything'. It was a disgrace. I was stunned. I said to the clerk, who is a musician, "They should not allow today's singers" to remake the Temptations. He just smiled and nodded.
It's a real shame that NBC and Motown (depasse) did the TV movie on the Tempts portraying Ruffin the way they did.
http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/6th/01a0345p.html
Hey, eleni, that's pretty good for unreleased material, isn't it? They had a surplus of the stuff back then; it's kind of nice hearing something for the first time that was made in 1965.
From (I think) 1964 there was a good Motown duet with Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells called "Once Upon A Time." I never hear it played as an oldie, which of course you can say about a lot of great songs.
LOL. That reminds me. I seem to remember reading that Otis Redding's wife liked Bolton's rendition. I thought "he must be paying her".
You have hit on one of my visceral grievances. You could throw in his version (I think it's him) of the Four Tops "Reach Out, I'll Be There" for good measure, or bad measure if you prefer. Musical sacrilige, and people will hear that and think it's the real thing. And I won't even start in on James Taylor draining the soul from "How Sweet It Is."
I think that's Michael MacDonald. Either way, it sucks.
NO words can describe my distaste/dislike for this tortured singer...destroying such classics...widow notwithstanding...yeah he probably either paid her off or ?
"James Taylor is easily the least talented person to have garnered fame for a career of poorly done covers."
I contend Rod Stewart...but Taylor is right up there. :-)
All I can say about Bolton and Taylor is "Mommy make the bad men stop!"
"Draining the Soul" perfectly describes what these 2 do to their frightful rendition of the classics. I think of Joe Piscopo doing his lounge act on SNL...and Bill Murray singing "Star wars - gimme those star wars"
How about this for a song that can never be duplicated/improved...Neither One Of Us, Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye.
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