On The Legacy: The Temptations Miniseries & David Ruffin 

Please one on Paul Williams, he deserves it.

Even though the movie wasn't the best or the most accurate, you can't deny that Leon was the best for David! Especially the part where he said "ain't nobody coming to see you Otis". The best part is that he even looked like David and he gave David life. I don't think anybody else could be him but Leon!

David Ruffin had an exceptionally beautiful and gifted voice.

The actor who played Ruffin also played Little Richard..he is amazing in both!

I don't care if that scene was a lie, no one came too see Otis line is top-tier base! I just love that scene.

The Actors in the movie they were AMAZING they did Justice to the characters and all handsome i must say..💖💖💖💖💖💖

david ruffin was a great singer despite his demons.

David was an amazing singer. Movies and TV getting it wrong is almost always the case. His lead vocal on My Girl is so perfect it still gives me the chills.

Leon Robinson did David Ruffin justice in the same way J-Lo did Selena justice. Also, David's daughter hinted toward her beloved father being targeted by the industry. Which ultimately took his life aside from the drugs. Either way, he will always be remembered as "THE MAN THAT LITERALLY HELPED BUILD MOTOWN FROM THE GROUND" 🖤🖤🖤

As much as I get the sympathy for Paul, there is a reason why we are STILL talking about Ruffin. He defined the Temps sound more than any other lead and he was so good that nobody was ever really able to follow him……save for Ali Ollie Woodson who was, at least vocally, as good as Ruffin if not a little better. Paul, in contrast, was a decent vocalist but he wasn’t great on vocals. His legacy lies with being a founding member and his prolific choreography which gave the early Temps their signature stage craft. Sadly, history doesn’t remember those in the background quite as fondly as those in the spotlight. Paul Williams should be remembered but he will never occupy the same place in music history as does Ruffin.

Good to know I’m not the only one obsessed with them in the 21st century!

My Pops (RIP) would have enjoyed watching this. He was the biggest Temptation fan. I remember him crying the day it was pronounced Ruffin had died. - Signed 01/08/2023

I cannot listen to old songs I get too sad and start crying… I think about how people were once here and now are dead and gone. Just hearing that little piece of my girl did something to me

David is True TALENT David is an phenomenal singer .

Baddest man to touch a microphone...

I love David's voice but he needed the right songs to really bring it out. Like the songs he sung with the Temptations. I love how he sounds in all those songs.

Ruff', the original front man in black male vocal groups. His voice and showmanship, in just four short years made The Classic Five the leading R&B group of the Golden Age of Sweet Soul music. Rest in peace my brother. The world may not have understood you, but your music will forever define your presence here on earth, despite the demons you finally succumbed to. 🎤👓🎩👞

Each member of the original Temptation was unique and its hard to love just one. They all were simply the best. Temptation's music 4 Life.

I love Ruffin! Leon was perfection portraying him. Wow. I read the book written by his son's mother.Geena . David has a very handsome look a like son. David Jr.

Ego and arrogance ended his run with the group. As far as him building Motown I certainly can't agree with that, but he was a contributor. For me the most important person at Motown and responsible for the early success is Smokey Robinson. What's amazing is after all the members past and present the Temptations are still recording and performing and its 2023.

"Ain't nobody coming to see you Otis". That's one of my favorite lines from the miniseries.

Greatest voice ever. Rest In Peace David.

The Temptations actually agreed to let David back in the group, weeks after Dennis had already joined, but he missed the majority of the very next show (only showing up for “My Girl”) and they fired him for good.

Night club scene with Ruffin and Kendrick’s is my favorite scene in the film . So true and so real !

Legend gone but never forgotten will always love David rip David

From the movie he never missed a step or a beat regardless of the drugs he could pop up and have them steps down to perfection ❤

Loved the Temptations Movie!!!❤️ All Actors were fantastic!!🎶🎵🎤 David Ruffin was a phenomenal lead soulful singer!! He had “the voice “!! To bad he didn’t know he had it all!! Temptations were my favorite group of Motown!!🎶🎵🎤❤️

his voice was so sultry and sexy … even his speaking voice 🔥

David is my favorite Temptation and my favorite male singer of all time. I feel that Berry Gordy did not stand behind David as he should've done. David will forever be the voice of the Temptations.....sleep in heavenly peace David.

David Ruffin is one of those dudes who had a conversational singing voice. A voice that is out of this world. David Ruffin despite having a substantial amount of problems had one of the best voices I have ever heard.

You can really here DR’s influence in R&B artists like Johnny Taylor, Tyrone Davis and Willie Hutch. There will never be another. 🎼🖤🎼

David was and is an amazing artist a beautiful voice 💕❤️🥰🙏

Paul, David, Eddie and Melvin we're my favorites of the Temptations original group! And, Richard, Dennis Edwards & Ollie Ali Woodson, when they came along! The best authentic, vocal style and sound came from all of these guys! I'm not feeling these knock off Temps! They just don't have that "it!" There's no more Temptation's! However; there songs will always live on!🎶 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎹❤️❤️👍 RIP Mr. David Ruffin!🌹🙏😔

King David for sure. He was simply, and still is, The Greatest. What a Voice! Loved him in the Temptations and loved him even more solo. RiP David. You are singing for the angels now, those above and those below!

I'm grateful that David, post-Tempts, continued singing and stayed on the charts..

Gotta do one on Paul Williams

I was a great fan of David Ruffin. I hated the Temptations after he left. I didn’t know what had happened. But I lost interest in the group when the main star disappeared. Until the movie came out. I finally understood what messed up my favorite group.So sorry he didn’t get the loyal support and understanding he earned and deserved.

The Temptations was an excellent show and yeah maybe they didn't get all the facts right but poetic licence made it all the more entertaining. Ruffin was an incredible singer and should be remembered for that alone.

DAVID ELI RUFFIN is my Favorite Singer of All Time!!! Sing In Peace King David 👑

Ruffin was only voice that could not be replaced, no similar voices that unique ! Listen to RU-vid showing all the various temps singing My Girl , all are brutal except Ruffin !

I just finished watching the mini series and I still love it!!!

David Ruffin Jr just signed a 5 LP deal with a boutique label at Sony. The first single “Time of My Life” is dope!

His voice was phenomenal. All he needed was the right songs and his Solo career would've have been something legendary. I could definitely see him killing that song ( backstabbers) 💯😎👌

There must have been a lot of bad blood between Otis and David since Otis was one of the producers of the miniseries. For someone like me, not knowing the history, I would have just assumed that David's death happened as it was depicted. That was completely disrespectful to David and his family!

This is the best David Ruffin story ever! Oh how I love that voice!

Common Man,Walk away from love,Staue of a fool ,classic solo hits

OuRnB, Very well done. You gave Mr. Ruffin the respect he truly deserves.

David voice was my favorite, rip 🙏

Thank you for producing this exemplary video on my favorite singer of all time. David certainly was troubled and was by no means a saint, but the miniseries portrayed him as an egomaniac. David was far from that, I believe he had a good heart but that abuse was all he ever really knew hence why many of his relationships ended. I believe his 1991 recording HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE is poignant and is very much David apologizing for his past misdeeds and handling of his relationships with not just the women in his life but also the Tempts themselves. I for one love his solo work and it is in constant rotation on my Sony Walkman whenever I am out on long drives. I love songs like "My Whole World Ended, "Common Man," Me & Rock & Roll," and the still sadly relevant "Blood Donors Needed." I also love that many of his songs are about loneliness, heartbreak and feelings of emptiness, these are emotions I feel constantly as I suffer from depression and David just gets it. I love all of his solo albums and it is tragic that possibly his best material was kept under lock and key by Motown until after his death. "Let Somebody Love Me," is my personal favorite David solo track, it explains perfectly the feelings of being a single man and how frustrating it is to see love all around you and not have any yourself. Thanks again for this brilliant video, hopefully now the young bucks out there will see David Ruffin not as the "Ain't nobody comin' to see you Otis" guy, but as a multitalented and faceted man whose music has not only helped but inspired millions of people, black and white, across the world. For the record, I am white and I feel this music is not bound to any race, we all feel the themes and rhythms that this music provides us at some point in our lives. Long live David Ruffin (January 18, 1941 - June 1, 1991)

This was really good! It would be cool if you did a mini documentary on all five original members of the Temptations.

I thought Otis waited til everyone who mattered had passed on to make his Version of The Temptations movie . He knew as long as David and Eddie was alive he would have a fight on his hands . The movie was entertaining at best but not the true how sad because the true was a very interesting story .

I love David Ruffin’s voice. I was in college when the news broke about his death. It was told in the news that David was dropped off at the hospital so it’s not like the movie just made that story line up. Ijs.

Wow. This vid is awesome. The narrative, the rhythm, and presentation are flawless. As a Tempts fan since their early rise, I appreciate the respect that you've shown throughout this vid, even with its startling revelations. The narration is smooth and well-modulated the results of your research are sharp and crisp; the editing is seamless. David Ruffin was definitely the main attraction, but it seems that he hadn't developed the psychic connection with Berry as had VP/ co-founder/ top-writer Smokey, the bond that lover, friend, and Motown hood ornament Diana Ross maintained, nor even that which Martha Reeves apparently developed; all of whom went on to garner their names being above their respective groups. David was much more of a rebel, and while that contributed to his star persona, as with the unfortunate Flo Ballard, such non-compliance rankled the Motown star-makers. Again, excellent job.

I'm always a fan of David for life. But even I would have voted him out the group.

All I Need was 🔥🔥. David had “the voice” that took the Temps to legendary status. Temps forever 💜💜🙏🏽🙏🏽

Thank you very much 😢. I still love David. I was a young teenager when Motown introduced all that wonderful talent to the world. It was magical. The music 🎶 helped heal the integration problems , we were having at our school. Music 🎶 brought us together, and that was in the deep south. " Temptations forever " ❤

Great video on the talented David Ruffin.😎👍 David Ruffin and The Temptations are my favorite Motown act

Ain't nobody come too see u Otis, good stuff 🙏

I loved and still do love listening to his powerful beautiful voice. I think it is so sad that he would mess up what he had with the Temptations. That still saddens me, that he did that.

Title really say I’m David Ruffin and these are The Temptations 😂😂

David should have signed with a record label that allowed him to write his own songs, in my opinion. Motown never did that. The only artist on the label allowed to write his own material was Smokey Robinson, and that was company politics-he co-owned the label.

Yo his voice was Crazy and it seems like Otis really hated ruffin frfr

Beautiful voice! RIP

David Ruffin was the MAN. RIP bro

Beautifully done!! He was an extremely talented individual which the world never really got to know or experience!

I thank you so much for this commentary..i thought i knew everything about David Ruffin.. and felt what a tragic sad end to one of the world's greatest voices. I'm so grateful to learn there was more to this man who had internal pain, but when he opened his mouth to sing, everything and everyone stopped to bask in the perfection of his vocal abilities... I pray he was saved and God showed him mercy and took him to heaven. Where he praises THE MOST HIGH GOD.. Thank you.

David's first lead was "You'll Lose a Precious Love." It was recorded months before "My Girl" which would be his single debut.

you did a wonderful job i actually learned a lot from you 😊 can you make a part 2? i’m really interested in learning about his childhood and his relationships

Thank You for restoring Truth and Facts of One of the most talented man who was not perfect, but was Pure at heart 💜

This was beautifully done!

Sir you’ve been rolling out some stellar material! I’ve been thoroughly enjoying these past few videos. Keep ‘em coming! You gotta do one on Eddie and Dennis next

This is HIGH quality with actual emotion in the voice and good, decent audio and visuals. All these “telling” the stories of the Temptations’ (insert member here) are all repeats of the same basic info. This actually focuses his legacy and analyzes how the miniseries portrayed him.

This was well put together! I'm glad the real story of the legendary David Ruffin will never be forgotten, Regardless of the fake af movie! Thanks, I really enjoyed this! ❤

Thank you for finally sharing the truth. There will never be another like him. A very talented man, I still listen to his songs everyday.

I think these kind of movies have the tremendous task of condensing decades of group history into a small window of time so they change things around to give you the essence of key moments but thanks for showing what actually happened, it's good to know the history.

Rest In Peace David Rest In Peace God Bless

He’s my favorite lead for the Temptations.

David Ruffin had an incredible voice.

Love his voice and music 🎶

This is one of the best documentaries in the best 🎉🎉🎉

No one, no one, can ever replace or try to replace the original Temptations. Believe this.❤

very well done. Love David

He was right in saying, “ without David Ruffin , you’re just a group searching for a David Ruffin “ !

This video is pretty good but don’t bash the movie. It was absolutely amazing and it’s the greatest musical biography movie.

I knew the movie was full of lies & embellishments. Thank you for your honest depiction of David Ruffin. To crown it all, the movie was produced when the others weren't around to debunk the lies.

I enjoy is very well and put together documentary about David ruffin I enjoyed it when listening to the documentary you can tell that the person did his homework and it was extremely put well together and very in-depth it was in my opinion not just extremely well but wonderfully put together

Happy Birthday sugar ❤🎉❤❤Your such an icon an inspiration to me..I just love you girl you have no idea. Big up urself on this Birthday Beautiful continue to stand out and shine..you hv come a long way and am super proud of you love..Remember Sharisdope got nuff love and respect for you baby girl..Happy Birthday queen Love you lots boo❤❤❤❤

Perfect!

Yes, there were quite a few things in this movie that weren't factual, and not just about David. Just like Ruff being thrown out of a car at a hospital, Mel dying in his mama's kitchen was fiction as well. But movie makers have the license to do this when they make bio pics, so long as they use the disclaimer "based on a true story." Certain things are fictionalized to enhance dramatic effect.

OMG this was SOOOOOOOO awesome!!!!

Wow. Great job!!!!

Glad to see a little redemption for him

For sure one of my favorite singers of all time… such great talent u fortunately comes from great tragedy. I wish it would rain is my favorite temp Ruffin song. Next would be I heard it through the grape vine with Marvin gay…Jesus I really don’t think any music will ever top what Motown did collectively.

He made some great records but they probably weren’t promoted enough.

Great video brother

Great Vlog❗💯😊

His daughter Nedra just did an awesome interview. It's really not what we thought happened. He was definitely set up

I love this movie 🍿

Done heard this story a million times..i just watch to see a new version

wow this is crazy