David Ruffin - The Unreleased Album

2022

David Ruffin's unreleased third solo album was finally unleashed from deep in the Motown vault in 2004 in a limited edition digi-pak design. Acclaimed for its great performances, the album quickly sold out its original run. Now, due to overwhelming demand, David is back on CD, this time in a standard jewel case, with all of the liner notes and track annotations from the 2004 release.
Unreleased Album  & More includes the 12 tracks originally scheduled for release in 1971 as LP Motown 733, plus seven amazing bonus tracks from the album sessions and four mono single mixes.

It's the great David Ruffin and Motown's Funk Bothers band, directed by several of the company's best producers including Smokey Robinson, Johnny Bristol, Henry Cosby, Clay McMurray and Ivy Jo Hunter. Among the highlights: Each Day Is A Lifetime, the proposed album s first single; the dramatic I Can t Be Hurt Anymore ; the mournful Let Somebody Love Me ; Out In The Country, co-written by a young Rick James; plus stunning covers, including an adult take on the Jackson 5's I Want You Back ; Brook Benton's Rainy Night In Georgia ; and a sanctified rendition of Stevie Wonder's Heaven Help Us All.

Ruffin, former lead singer of the Temptations best known for memorable leads on timeless songs like My Girl and Ain t Too Proud To Beg, had started his solo career with a bang, as his 1969 album and single, My Whole World Ended, were smash hits. At age 28, entering his prime, he cut his third album while also recording duet tracks with his brother, Jimmy. David watched as the duet album, Jimmy's solo album and the solo debut from Eddie Kendricks, another former Temptations lead singer, were all released. His brilliant, emotional, exciting David? No.
Now you can hear it again, or for the first time.

1 Each Day Is a Lifetime
2 I Want You Back
3 Out in the Country
4 You Can Come Light Back to Me
5 I Can't Be Heart Anymore
6 Rainy Night in Georgia
7 I Want a Need for You
8 Anything That You Ask for
9 Let Somebody Love Me
10 For the Shelter of Your Love
11 Diner
12 Don't Stop Lovin' me

Bonus Tracks
13 It's Gonna Take a Hall Lot of Dooin
14 I Want Her to Say It Again
15 Your Heart Takes I Can Surrey Heel
16 Get Away Heartbreak (Keep on Moving)
17 You Make Me Do Things (I Want)・ Want to Do)
18 Mountain of Memories
19 Heaven Help As All
20 Each Day Is a Lifetime (Single Ver.)
21 Don't Stop Lovin'me (Single Ver.)
22 You Can Come Light Back to Me (Single Ver.)
23 Diner (Single Ver.)