Performance · Production
Jimmy Ruffin
Collinsville, United States • 1936-05-07 – 2014-11-17
Jimmy Ruffin is credited on 154 releases across 57 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
154
Pressings credited
57
Albums
7
Decades active
11
In collections
Biography
Jimmy Lee Ruffin (May 7, 1936 – November 17, 2014) was an American soul singer, and the older brother of David Ruffin, the lead singer of the Temptations. He had several hit records between the 1960s and 1980s, the most successful being the Top 10 hits "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Hold On (To My Love)".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
154 releases · 57 albums · active 1961–2020
- Performance · 177
- Production · 63
- Other credits · 5
Studios: Kingdom Sound · Criteria Recording Studios · Battery Studios, London · Sigma Sound Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Ruby Turner
- Archive
- The Armada Orchestra
- Tech Nine
- Todd
- Heaven Seventeen
- Maxine Nightingale
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