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It's well known that Motown recorded more material than it could release, but its reasons for shelving material remain a mystery to this day. Ever since the CD reissue boom of the late '80s, this unreleased material has begun to trickle out of the vaults, and when it does surface in such forms as the dynamite double-disc set A Cellarful of Motown!, the music is so good it's hard to believe that it never was released at the time. Knowing this, it should not come as a complete surprise that former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin had a full, completed album shelved in 1971, but hearing Hip-O Select's excavation of that album on the 2004 release David: The Unreleased Album, it's still a wonder that this record sat in the vaults for over three decades, with very few of the songs recorded during the sessions appearing on other records and compilations over the years. Far from being unreleasable, David (titled as such because the album was never given a proper title -- it was given a catalog number and track sequencing, with David Ruffin penciled in as its name, but that was used as the title for his 1973 album) finds Ruffin at a solo peak, not just a singer but in terms of material. He cut the 12 songs that comprised the album, along with the seven bonus tracks from the same sessions that fill out this CD reissue, in late 1969 and 1970, after he had a big solo hit with "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)," with the intent of releasing the album in 1971. There were a pair of covers of recent hits -- an appropriately heartbroken and seductive "Rainy Night in Georgia" and a rather revelatory "I Want You Back," which added real grit to the Jackson 5's effervescent smash -- but most of this was material written for Ruffin and it played to his strengths. While this music was rooted in Motown's signature sound and performed by the Funk Brothers, it also looked beyond Detroit, adding heavy doses of funk, psychedelia, and smooth soul, filled with galvanizing horns, driving guitars, down-n-dirty clavinets, flourishes of electric sitar, fuzz tones, and wah-wah guitars, all grounded by Ruffin's earthy testifying and tied together by top-notch songwriting. All these elements wound up sounding much hipper than much of the music officially released by Motown in the early 1970, when Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were just beginning to break free of the studio's formula, and while David and its accompanying bonus tracks are not a masterpiece along the lines of Talking Book or What's Going On (or even Where I'm Coming From, for that matter), it's vibrant, exciting music that still sounds fresh -- arguably fresher than full-length Temptations albums of the late '60s -- which qualifies it as a lost classic of sorts. Why was it lost, consigned to the vaults for nearly three and a half decades? According to the liner notes, nobody really knows. Ruffin wasn't popular among the executives at Motown in the early '70s, and he was also going through a number of well-documented personal problems, so it's possible that Motown simply didn't want to promote him at the time, but it's also true that the label had a number of great records, including Marvin's What's Going On, to release in 1971, and Ruffin had two LPs out in 1970, including a duet album with his brother Jimmy, so the market may have been saturated. We'll likely never know the reason why David was buried, but fortunately it has been unearthed, and it's a reason for hardcore soul and Motown fans to celebrate.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Henry Cosby, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Nick Zesses, ComposerLyricist - DINO FEKARIS, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Van dePitte, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2000 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., ComposerLyricist - Alphonso Mizell, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Lussier, ComposerLyricist - Freddie Perren, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 1998 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clay McMurray, Producer - Ricky Mathews, ComposerLyricist - Ronald Matlock, ComposerLyricist - Roderick Harrison, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Terry Johnson, Producer - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rose Ella Jones, ComposerLyricist - David Van dePitte, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Burston, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Nick Zesses, ComposerLyricist - DINO FEKARIS, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tony Joe White, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clay McMurray, Producer
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carol Peters, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clay McMurray, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Martin Coleman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Freddie Gorman, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ivy Joe Hunter, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Vernon O'Dell Bullock, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pam Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Hinton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - AL CLEVELAND, ComposerLyricist - Gene Page, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Browner, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Janie Bradford, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clay McMurray, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Martin Coleman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Gladys Knight, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Merald Knight, ComposerLyricist - William Guess, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Carol Peters, ComposerLyricist - Lewis Peters, ComposerLyricist - Robert L. Purdue, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Vernon Bullock, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Bristol, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lena Manns, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Pamela Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Hinton, ComposerLyricist - Camille Guillemette, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Pam Sawyer, ComposerLyricist - Martin Cohen, Producer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Martin Coleman, ComposerLyricist - Ellen Fitton, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Harry Weinger, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Suha Gur, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ron Miller, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Tom Baird, Producer - Harry Weinger, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Suha Gur, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Henry Cosby, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Nick Zesses, ComposerLyricist - DINO FEKARIS, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Van dePitte, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Paul Riser, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Duke Browner, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Terry Johnson, Producer - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Rose Ella Jones, ComposerLyricist - David Van dePitte, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Clifford Burston, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - AL CLEVELAND, ComposerLyricist - Gene Page, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - David Ruffin, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1971 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chronique
It's well known that Motown recorded more material than it could release, but its reasons for shelving material remain a mystery to this day. Ever since the CD reissue boom of the late '80s, this unreleased material has begun to trickle out of the vaults, and when it does surface in such forms as the dynamite double-disc set A Cellarful of Motown!, the music is so good it's hard to believe that it never was released at the time. Knowing this, it should not come as a complete surprise that former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin had a full, completed album shelved in 1971, but hearing Hip-O Select's excavation of that album on the 2004 release David: The Unreleased Album, it's still a wonder that this record sat in the vaults for over three decades, with very few of the songs recorded during the sessions appearing on other records and compilations over the years. Far from being unreleasable, David (titled as such because the album was never given a proper title -- it was given a catalog number and track sequencing, with David Ruffin penciled in as its name, but that was used as the title for his 1973 album) finds Ruffin at a solo peak, not just a singer but in terms of material. He cut the 12 songs that comprised the album, along with the seven bonus tracks from the same sessions that fill out this CD reissue, in late 1969 and 1970, after he had a big solo hit with "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)," with the intent of releasing the album in 1971. There were a pair of covers of recent hits -- an appropriately heartbroken and seductive "Rainy Night in Georgia" and a rather revelatory "I Want You Back," which added real grit to the Jackson 5's effervescent smash -- but most of this was material written for Ruffin and it played to his strengths. While this music was rooted in Motown's signature sound and performed by the Funk Brothers, it also looked beyond Detroit, adding heavy doses of funk, psychedelia, and smooth soul, filled with galvanizing horns, driving guitars, down-n-dirty clavinets, flourishes of electric sitar, fuzz tones, and wah-wah guitars, all grounded by Ruffin's earthy testifying and tied together by top-notch songwriting. All these elements wound up sounding much hipper than much of the music officially released by Motown in the early 1970, when Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were just beginning to break free of the studio's formula, and while David and its accompanying bonus tracks are not a masterpiece along the lines of Talking Book or What's Going On (or even Where I'm Coming From, for that matter), it's vibrant, exciting music that still sounds fresh -- arguably fresher than full-length Temptations albums of the late '60s -- which qualifies it as a lost classic of sorts. Why was it lost, consigned to the vaults for nearly three and a half decades? According to the liner notes, nobody really knows. Ruffin wasn't popular among the executives at Motown in the early '70s, and he was also going through a number of well-documented personal problems, so it's possible that Motown simply didn't want to promote him at the time, but it's also true that the label had a number of great records, including Marvin's What's Going On, to release in 1971, and Ruffin had two LPs out in 1970, including a duet album with his brother Jimmy, so the market may have been saturated. We'll likely never know the reason why David was buried, but fortunately it has been unearthed, and it's a reason for hardcore soul and Motown fans to celebrate.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 23 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 01:15:21
- Artistes principaux : David Ruffin
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : Hip-O Select
- Genre : Soul/Funk/R&B R&B
© 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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