When David Ruffin left The Temptations in 1969, he took a swan dive into psych-soul pool he and his former partners were dabbling in on albums like Cloud 9 and Puzzle People, as this essential two-fer ...

We’ve started poking around in locals’ iTunes, iPods, Spotify playlists, CD players, cassette decks, turntables and brains with one question in mind: What are you listening to? We don’t even care if ...

Philadelphia — When he was a kid in rural Mississippi, living, for a time, in a house with no running water, he dreamed of being a famous performer. He might as well have imagined walking to the moon.

Just as every Temptations fan has his or her favorite single, each of us is likely to remember the sound of David Ruffin in a different way. For some, he’ll always be the embodiment of romantic ...

Any suspicions that soul singer Jimmy Ruffin might have harbored hard feelings after his younger brother, David, snatched one of the great gigs in 1960s pop music out of his hands would have been ...