i wouldn't think that kendricks would have fit
on gamble and huff,

but now that i think about it
thom bell probablly could have hooked him up.


but anyway... i just said that b/c
i can hear ruffin siging "turn off the lights" in my head.

i can hear him singing backstabbers in my head.




i agree that ruffin's deamons got the best of him,
and that's why he didn't really get heat behind him at motowown.

i have no reason to believe that motown would "sabatoge" ruffin's
his career or anything like that.



>Teddy Pendergrass for One was marketed differently. RUffin
>was never that type of artist. RUffin was happening before the
>Motown original of Teddy Pendergrass and his name was Marvin
>gaye. and did Ruffin ever mix themes and topics as well as
>Gaye? naw 1)
>
>Eddie Levert had a distinctive singing style and his voice and
>the O'jays were a better fit there as well.
>
>
>going by your logic you could also say that Eddie Kendricks
>could have rode the Philly International train and hit as
>well.
>
>IMO you are insulting the Motown brass because Ruffin already
>was surroounded by the top in flight songwriters and
>Producers, Problem was his consistance and dependence.
>
>believe me Berry Gordy would have pushed his thing if
>Ruffin's demons didn't get the best of him.
>
>IMO Ruffin could have reinvented his wheel like how Johnny
>Gutiar watson, Johnny Taylor and and what ZZ Hill Later did
>with his voice and it would have worked IMO,