1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: This episode contains content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,239 Speaker 1: Please check the show notes for more information. Disgraceland is 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: a production of Double Elvis. The stories about the Temptations 4 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: are insane. They are one of the most successful and 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 1: beloved R and B groups of all time, despite the 6 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: fact that group members were tragically corrupted by fame and drugs. 7 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: David Ruffin in particular, battled a twenty plus year cocaine abbott. 8 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: His ego was so huge that he rode in a 9 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: private mink lined car and hired his own manager and bodyguard. 10 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,800 Speaker 1: He was so volatile that it's been long rumored that 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: he was responsible for the most tragic death in Motown history. 12 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,920 Speaker 1: And he was so paranoid that he believed the death 13 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: of a fellow Temptation was not an accident but a 14 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: warning to those like him who dared disrupt the flow 15 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: of Motown's famed factory line. The Temptations made great music, 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: from their classic five line up with David Ruffin to 17 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: the psychedelic soul made with Dennis Edwards. Great music unlike 18 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: that music I played for you at the top of 19 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: the show. That wasn't great music. That was a preset 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: loop from my melotron called Milk Milk Promenade MK. One. 21 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 22 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: rights to the Morning After by Mareen McGovern. And why 23 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: would I play you that specific slice of Nony New 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: Year's Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the 25 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: number one song in America on August seventeenth, nineteen seventy three, 26 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: And that was the day The Temptation Paul Williams was 27 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: found dead outside his car in Detroit, a death that 28 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: would raise many questions and so any conspiracy theories. On 29 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 1: this episode, cocaine, tall egos, mink lined cars disrupting motown's flow. 30 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: In The Temptations, I'm Jake Brennan in this this disgrace Land. 31 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: The dollar bill was old, It smelled like oil and sweat. 32 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: David Ruffin rolled it up with his fingers and then 33 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: used it to do a line off the table. He 34 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: tasted iron at the back of his throat. If his 35 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: nose is about to gue or blood all over the place, 36 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: so be it. It would take his mind off the 37 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: things he didn't want to think about. There was plenty 38 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: he could stand to forget. Like his third solo record. 39 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: It was finished, but Motown Records wasn't going to release it. 40 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: David Ruffin had once been a surefire moneymaker, but his 41 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: solo singles as of late were a series of diminishing returns, 42 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: and the venerable Detroit labeled in pump cash and resources 43 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: into diminishing returns. Back when David Ruffin was a member 44 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: of the Temptations, he was a star. Otis Williams may 45 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: have been the leader of the group, but David Ruffins 46 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 1: stood out, not just because he was tall as shit, 47 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: and not just for his trademark Hornward Glasses. David Ruffin 48 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: had a gravelly, gruff voice imbued with sadness longing in 49 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: Sex on Fuego, Daryl Hall of holl And Oates would 50 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: later describe the voice behind Ain't too Proud to Bag 51 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: My Girl and I Know I'm Losing You as crying 52 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: in tune. David Ruffin's voice was so robust it made 53 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: other singers like Marvin Gaye want to up their game. 54 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 1: When David replaced original Temptation Al Bryant in nineteen sixty four, 55 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 1: his voice was just the thing the band had been missing, 56 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,679 Speaker 1: and although the Temptations had their syncopated dance steps down, 57 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: including the high stepping signature move called the temptation walk. 58 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: David always took it one step higher. He tossed the 59 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: mic in the air, spun around in the three sixties, 60 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: sweet dropped down to his knees and rebounded like an 61 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: elastic band as a temptation. David Ruffin was the star 62 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: of the show. And to be the star, you had 63 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 1: to be ready. You had to be ready for the attention, 64 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: the applause, the fame. If you weren't ready, then you 65 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: had to get ready. The green sharkskin suit gave you 66 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: some confidence, but even better was the pre show chin 67 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: in soda. Make it the double? Are you ready now? 68 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: Fee five foux FuMB baby better? Best fucking believe it. 69 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: You're ready. And then after you kill the show, when 70 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 1: you walk backstage all sweaty and you're still riding that 71 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: high of adrenaline, an applause, and the way those women 72 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: stared at the bulg shifting around inside your tight pants. 73 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: You want that feeling to go all night. So cue 74 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:21,279 Speaker 1: the cocaine. Coke kept the high, real high, and you 75 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: were number one on the R and B charts. Big 76 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: fucking deal, You're number one. Tonight every night up on 77 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: that stage at the after party, in the hotel room, 78 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: between the sheets, fiddly d fiddly dumb on the fuckers. 79 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: The last, but not least, after the coke had worn 80 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: off and the first rays of the sun peeked out 81 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 1: over the horizon, the pills were clutched. They made your 82 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: eyelids heavy and your slumber deep, and the next day 83 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: you'd do it all over again. But that was nineteen 84 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,360 Speaker 1: sixty seven. Now it was nineteen seventy, and David Ruffin 85 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: was no longer a temptation. Hadn't been for two years. 86 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: These days, the gin and soda just got him drunk, 87 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: and the pills no longer had an effect on his 88 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 1: sleep patterns, and the cocaine, the cocaine just made him paranoid. 89 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: David looked across the table of his Detroit apartment. At 90 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: Eddie Kendrick's, he passed the old rolled up dollar bill 91 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: to his former bandmate. Eddie had been a temptation long 92 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,800 Speaker 1: before David was hired. He'd been there when the vocal 93 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: group first auditioned at Motown under the name the Elgins. 94 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: Eddie had the smoothest voice in the Temptations, the one 95 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: that people would always call a falsetto, even though technically 96 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 1: he was a natural tenor. That's his voice, leading smash 97 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: hits like the way you do the things you do 98 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: and get ready, and unlike other members of the group, 99 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: Eddie stayed in touch with David even after he'd been 100 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,720 Speaker 1: canned in nineteen sixty eight. Eddie knew he should be 101 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: angry at David David big times, the whole band. When 102 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: the Temptations got famous, they found themselves with more money 103 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: than they never laid eyes on, and naturally they spent it. 104 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 1: They bought nice clothes, nice houses, and nice car. But 105 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: David didn't just buy any car. He bought a stretch 106 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: El Camino convertible with white mink seat covers and white 107 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: mink floor mats on the inside, with his name and 108 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: face plastered on the doors. And then he hired his 109 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: own manager, And then he hired his own bodyguard. When 110 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: he saw how Diana Ross managed to get the official 111 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: name of the Supremes changed to Diana Ross and the Supremes, 112 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: David tried to pull the same shit Forget Drugs Man. 113 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: It was fame that fucked up David ruffin at least 114 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: at first it did. And when David became too important 115 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: to even show up a concerts, that's when the decision 116 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: to cut him loose became a very easy one. Still 117 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: in Eddie's mind, time healed some, if not all, wounds. 118 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: Plus David had insight into the interpersonal dynamics of the Temptations, 119 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 1: plus what it was like to go it alone in 120 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:55,239 Speaker 1: the Motown machine. That was valuable intel for Eddie. Eddie 121 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: was at a crossroads with his career. Should he continue 122 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: being a temptation, should he strike out on his He 123 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: needed the unique counsel of someone like David Ruffin. Plus 124 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 1: David had the good dope. Eddie's issue was this, he 125 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,520 Speaker 1: didn't think the Temptations were being treated fairly. In fact, 126 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: he was pretty sure they were being fuck six ways 127 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: to Sunday by the Motown brass. But Eddie was the 128 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: quiet temptation. He rarely spoke up, kept on trucking, and 129 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: stayed in line until now. Look at Stevie wonder Man. 130 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: He turned twenty one in May, refused to renew his 131 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: bullshit contract, just walked away, and then Barry went groveling 132 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: after him and paid Stevie millions Stevie got his, Why 133 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: can't we get ours? David Ruffin looked through his thick 134 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: horn rimmed glasses straight into the eyes of Eddie Kendricks. 135 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: You're right, man, one hundred percent. David hoovered some more 136 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: blow it kept talking shit. Man, We were earning something 137 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: like ten grand a night. We didn't see that money, 138 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,959 Speaker 1: did we. Motherfucker's tossed us five hundred a week if 139 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: we're lucky. But where did the rest of that money go. 140 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: Here's how it's gonna shake down, Berry. Gordy's gonna work you, 141 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,959 Speaker 1: work you, and work you, and then once you're too 142 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: weak or too angry, or you become too unpredictable, he's 143 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: gonna toss you out. He'll leave you with nothing. He's 144 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: gonna have Otis help them. You think Otis is on 145 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:12,319 Speaker 1: your side? Look at me, man, Why do you think 146 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,959 Speaker 1: I'm no longer a temptation? Because Otis threw me under 147 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: the goddamn bus when it was convenient for him. The 148 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: same thing is gonna happen to you. You're next, brother. 149 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:24,959 Speaker 1: David collected his thoughts as the cocaine invigorated and nauseated 150 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:28,079 Speaker 1: him all at once. But if you complain about it. 151 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: Look what they did the flow. Flow talked all kinds 152 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,479 Speaker 1: of shit about what was going down with the Supremes, 153 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: and Barry was all about Diana because Barry was fucking Diana. 154 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: Diana and Mary threw Flow to the wolves. Pretty soon 155 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 1: she couldn't fit in those tight dresses anymore, and that 156 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: was that the Barry cut her out of the picture 157 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: faster than James Jamison could lay down a baseline. And 158 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: then Barry blackballed her Man industry wide. She went to 159 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: another label and her records went nowhere. Literally, they weren't distributed, 160 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: they weren't promoted. Who the fuck does Barry Gordy know 161 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: to make that shit happen at another label? What kind 162 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: of guys is you working with behind the scenes, because 163 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: you know that Gordy made that shit happen. David snorted 164 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: another line and waited for the burn to subside. He 165 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 1: had some big solo hits in the last two years. Well, okay, 166 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: one hit, really my whole world ended the moment You 167 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 1: left Me went to number nine on the Billboard Hot 168 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: one hundred. One hit was far from the glory that 169 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: the Temptations enjoyed from nineteen sixty six to nineteen seventy one, 170 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: they'd released twenty one singles, all of them hits, and 171 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: most of them number one or number two on the 172 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: R and B charts. The Temptations were Motown Royalty, with 173 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: or without David. Ruffin was the shelving of David's third 174 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: solo album, A bad omen of Things to come? Had 175 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: Motown chewed him up? Was Barry Gordy preparing to spit 176 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 1: him out? David couldn't help, but wonder He also couldn't help, 177 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: but wonder if finding a way back into the Temptations 178 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:54,839 Speaker 1: could stave off the inevitable, revitalize his career, bring him 179 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 1: back from the pasture. He was being ushered out to shit. 180 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,319 Speaker 1: That's how he became a temptation in the first place. 181 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: He weaseled his way in. He ain't too proud to 182 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: beg But the Temptations were a quintet. In order for 183 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: David to return, one of them would have to leave. 184 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: David narrowed his eyes. He passed the dollar bill to 185 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 1: Eddie once more and began to talk. And then again, 186 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: It is a dog eat dog world out there, brother, 187 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: And you got a good point about Stevie. Maybe the 188 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: tide is changing maybe it is time you may stand. 189 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: Paul Williams was insistent they had to get back on stage. 190 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: They could all hear the crowd from their dress. The 191 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: audience was still roaring and the place was electric, but 192 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: the Temptations had already given three encores. They were physically exhausted. 193 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: That was Al Bryant's reasoning for putting his foot down. 194 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: Unlike his bandmate Paul Williams, Al was done for the night, 195 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: and if he was done, then the rest of the 196 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: Temptations were going to be done too. Al's reasoning was 197 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: only partially true, and the rest of the guys knew it. 198 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: They knew that Al was mostly just pissed that he'd 199 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: been upstaged that night, not by any of them. He'd 200 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:37,599 Speaker 1: been upstaged by David Ruffin, the skinny guy with a 201 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: huge voice who'd recently moved to the Motor City with 202 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: his brother Jimmy and was spending a lot of time 203 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,840 Speaker 1: waiting in Motown's wings for his big shot. David was 204 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: always around. If he wasn't working over Barry Gordy for 205 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: a record deal, he was endearing himself to the Temptations 206 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: own Melfin, Franklin and Otis Williams. On this particular night 207 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: in October of nineteen sixty three, he had Chappy's Lounge 208 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 1: in Detroit. David Ruffin had grown tired of waiting in 209 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: the wings. His big shot was right there on stage 210 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: for the taking, so he took it. He literally sprung 211 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: from the crowd and joined the Temptations on stage. He 212 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: didn't leave, and no one tried to make him leave either. 213 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: He sang the songs, he did the moves. He made 214 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 1: it look easy, He made it look like he belonged there. 215 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: The fucking nerve of David Ruffin, motherfucker was trying to 216 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: bully his way into the Temptations. It infuriated al Brian 217 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,360 Speaker 1: to no end, and it infuriated al even more when 218 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: no one else seemed to give a shit. Backstage, Paul 219 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: Williams kept trying to convince the guys that they were 220 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: obligated to perform a fourth encore. Al Bryan popped the 221 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,800 Speaker 1: top on a beer bottle and guzzled it. He knew 222 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: there had been tension in the band for a while. 223 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: He knew he drank too much. He knew that he 224 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: was difficult to work with. He knew that the band 225 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: knew that he drank too much and was difficult to 226 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: work with, like three encorees, David ruffing in his stupid 227 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 1: fucking glasses. Come on, man, fuck that. Al Brian stared 228 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: at Paul Williams and took another swig, his eyes seethed 229 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: with anger and humiliation. Paul kept pleading his case. They 230 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: were performers and the audience deserved to get their money's worth. 231 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: Al emptied the rest of the contents of the bottle 232 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: down his throat. Fucking Paul Williams, he thought, talking big, 233 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: like he can tell me what to do and not 234 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: to do. Al lifted his arm in the air, Paul 235 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: Williams is going to rue the day and ran his 236 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: mouth at al Brian and the empty beer bottle felt 237 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: light and powerful in Al's hand. With a vengeful thrust, 238 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 1: he brought the beer bottle down on Paul's head. At 239 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: least he intended to hit Paul's head. The bottle caught 240 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 1: Paul on the nose, and the glass shattered into Paul's face. 241 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: A shard narrowly missed his eye. Blood spurted from Paul's beak. 242 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: That's settled it. The temptations were not going out for 243 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: a fourth ncore. It also settled al Brian his fate, 244 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 1: though his tenure as a Temptation didn't end that day. 245 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't long after, in nineteen sixty four, that al 246 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,760 Speaker 1: was voted out of the group and David Ruffin was 247 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: more than ready to take his place. Fiddley d Fiddly Dumb. 248 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: The classic five era of the Temptations with tenor David 249 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: Ruffin produced a string of hits so strong that it 250 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: made the group, along with the Supremes, the standard of 251 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: excellence for Motown producers fought over the privilege to work 252 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 1: with him. Norman Whitfield, a writer and producer who had 253 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:37,600 Speaker 1: been grinding it out at Motown, sometimes on Lowly tambourine 254 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: and other times in the quality control department, even went 255 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 1: so far as to challenge Motown genius Smokey Robinson, who 256 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: had been working with the group since their start in 257 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six. Smokey was about to release his latest 258 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: Temptations track, get Ready, Norman made a bet that if 259 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: his new Temptations track ain't too proud to beg charted 260 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 1: higher than get Ready, then he earned the privilege to 261 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 1: be the group's primary collaborator. Both songs hit number one 262 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: on the arm Be charts, but A Too Proud to 263 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 1: beg went higher on the Hot one hundred all the 264 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: way to Lucky number thirteen. It wasn't exactly luck for 265 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: Norman Whitfield. It was an artistic coup, and it would 266 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: soon pay out massive dividends for him. Motown and The Temptations. 267 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: There were two major events that helped set the stage 268 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,120 Speaker 1: for the lucrative phase two of both Motown and The Temptations. First, 269 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: Detroit caught fire, literally for five hot days in July 270 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven. The city rioted. It all started when 271 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,040 Speaker 1: Detroit p D's vice squad, most of them white, raided 272 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: an after hours bar and arrested nearly ninety black patrons. 273 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 1: Tensions between the white Cobs and black neighborhoods were already high. 274 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: Buildings burned, gunshots rang out. National Guard tanks rumbled down 275 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: streets that resembled a war's home. The iconic Hitsville, USA 276 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 1: building at two six 't foury eight West Grant Boulevard, 277 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: the one that Barry Gordy had converted into a studio 278 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,920 Speaker 1: when the Motown Record Corporation was founded, remained unharmed during 279 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: the chaos, but the social unrest happening outside did make 280 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,919 Speaker 1: its way inside, most notably when a new Motown artist, 281 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,800 Speaker 1: an islam convert named Abdullah, who aligned himself with the 282 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,439 Speaker 1: Black Power movement, attacked Ralph Seltzer, a white Motown executive, 283 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: with a letter opener. Historically, Motown didn't do politics. Motown 284 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: wasn't about confrontation. And yes, it's true that Barry Gordy 285 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: did release Martin Luther King Junior's famous I Have a 286 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,440 Speaker 1: Dream Speech on wax in nineteen sixty three. But when 287 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: it came to the social revolution that was percolating coast 288 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: to coast, Motown was Switzerland and Barry Gordy's eyes, black 289 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: power was right there, and all the green dollars he 290 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: was raking in Motown was a business, and rocking the 291 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: boat was bad for business. Norman Woodfield disagreed. He thought 292 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: that Motown could pivot to socially conscious music along with 293 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: a more contemporary sound. He saw Motown's future not in 294 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 1: genteel dinner theater music, but as a hybrid of rock 295 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 1: and soul, more sly in the family Stone than Johnny Mathis. 296 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 1: The other major event that set Norman's plan in motion 297 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: was the departure of Holland Doser Holland, the juggernaut songwriting 298 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 1: and production trio that had defined Motown's sound for years. 299 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,439 Speaker 1: They walked out over surprise money disputes with Barry Gordy 300 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:36,159 Speaker 1: and left a whole lot of talent just standing in 301 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: the shadows. This was Motown's greatest moment of crisis. If 302 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:44,040 Speaker 1: the label had continued operations as normal, as if the 303 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: world wasn't changing around them, would it still be around today? 304 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,919 Speaker 1: Norman Woodfield looked into the future and had his answer. 305 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,399 Speaker 1: He also saw his window of opportunity step up and 306 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: step in, just like David Ruffin had seen his window 307 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: of opportunity when the Temptations had been with al Bryant. 308 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: It was an opportunity that would change the course of 309 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: musical history. But first Norman Woodfield had to stop history 310 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: from repeating itself. Because David Ruffin was quickly becoming al 311 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: Bryant two point zero. David didn't prove to be a 312 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: solution to the Temptations problems. Instead, David just brought his 313 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: own problems, just like al Bryant had before him, and 314 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:32,760 Speaker 1: his own baggage as a child in Mississippi, David Ruffin 315 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,920 Speaker 1: was routinely abused by a father who wielded an eight 316 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,919 Speaker 1: inch raw hide leather whip. According to one of David's girlfriends, 317 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 1: he was also sexually abused when he was younger, a 318 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 1: story that has been corroborated by at least one other friend. 319 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,880 Speaker 1: By all accounts, David Ruffin's life was extremely fucked up 320 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: from the get go. As an adult, he regularly mistreated 321 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 1: the people who were supposed to be the most important 322 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: in his life. He needed his ego fed constantly. People 323 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,360 Speaker 1: told him he was the Temptations, so that's what he believed, 324 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: and in turn he treated the rest of the band 325 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: like shit. He treated Tammy Terrell even worse. Tammy Terrell 326 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: had an unforgettable voice that came from an unforgettable face. 327 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: By the time she got to Motown, she had already 328 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 1: endured physical abuse from her previous boyfriend, the hardest working 329 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: man in showbiz, James Brown, and it only got worse 330 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: with David Ruffin. David had been corrupted by fame at 331 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 1: this point, diamond studded glasses and white mink interior convertible 332 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: and all that. He was also corrupted by cocaine, And 333 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: now the temptations weren't without their temptations. For David it 334 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: was coke. For Paul Williams, it was two to three 335 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 1: bottles of Cavasier each day. Money changes everything, Otis Williams 336 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: once said about the messy trajectory of the group. But 337 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: for David Ruffin, it's not like the money changed him. 338 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 1: Money just allowed him to continue to be an asshole 339 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: to everyone in his orbit, but to do it with 340 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: a budget. He asked Tammy to marry him, but failed 341 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,000 Speaker 1: to divulge that not only was he already married with children, 342 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: but he had another girlfriend with whom he also had 343 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: a child. And when Tammy got real famous, that's when 344 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:20,679 Speaker 1: things got real bad. Tammy sang on a series of 345 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:24,880 Speaker 1: instantly iconic duets with labelmate Marvin Gay, and pretty soon 346 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,959 Speaker 1: she was a household name. David Ruffin, by contrast, was 347 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: just a temptation. It bugged the shit out of him 348 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: that a woman, his woman, would dare to be more 349 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,360 Speaker 1: famous than him, so David took it out on her. 350 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: Tammy showed up at the Hitsville, USA Building with bruises 351 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: and black eyes barely concealed. Earl Van Dijke, keyboardists with 352 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: Motown's in house band known as the Funk Brothers, witnessed 353 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,480 Speaker 1: David physically attacked Tammy in the studio. Tammy even confided 354 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: in Otis Williams that David had once hit her on 355 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: the head with a lamp, A fucking lamp. She showed 356 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 1: Otis the lump. David and Tammy's relationship was so toxic 357 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: and so volatile that even the craziest rumors seemed like 358 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: they could be true, and most of those rumors involved 359 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,959 Speaker 1: David hitting Tammy on the head with something a lamb 360 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:18,680 Speaker 1: his motorcycle helmet. The worst rumor of all, however, was 361 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,920 Speaker 1: that he had hit her on the head with a hammer. 362 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: Some said the rumor was true, some said it was 363 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: on brand behavior for a guy with a violent past 364 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: and a bruised ego, and thus must be true. And 365 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,400 Speaker 1: some even went so far to say that when Tammy 366 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: died tragically just a few years later at the age 367 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,439 Speaker 1: of twenty four, it was more than obvious who was 368 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: to blame. We'll be right back after this word word word. 369 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: Eddie Kendricks decided he'd had enough cocaine for one day. 370 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 1: He'd pushed the old rolled up dollar bill, the one 371 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:03,199 Speaker 1: that smelled like oil and sweat. Back over to David Ruffin, 372 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: David looked like shit. His apartment was a mess. Eddie 373 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:11,200 Speaker 1: wondered if David's whole world had ended when he was 374 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,239 Speaker 1: kicked out of the Temptations. David filled Eddi's head with 375 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: so much information that day, so much conflicting information that 376 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: Eddie didn't even know where to begin. Should Eddie push 377 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: back on Barry Gordy? Would he be committing career suicide 378 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,719 Speaker 1: if he made a fuss? Should he just shut up 379 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: and work himself to death? Did he want to end 380 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 1: up like David ruffin his solo albums, collecting dust on 381 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: a shelf in Motown's office while his former band soldiered 382 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: on without him. One question he didn't ask himself was 383 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: whether or not David was playing with him, just like 384 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: David played with everyone else in his life, in order 385 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,199 Speaker 1: to insert himself back into the Temptations lineup, not that 386 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: the group was ready to take him back. In the 387 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,199 Speaker 1: years since David had left had been some of the 388 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 1: Temptation's best and that's not a slight on the David 389 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: ruffin years, But with tenor Dennis Edwards stepping into David's 390 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: empty shoes, and producer songwriter Norman Woodfield at the Helm, 391 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: the quintet made some of the most unique and impactful 392 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: music of their career. The stretch from late nineteen sixty eight, 393 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,639 Speaker 1: when David left nineteen seventy three would come to be 394 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: known as The Temptation's psychedelic soul period. Lifting heavily from 395 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:27,120 Speaker 1: non motown groups like Sly in the Family, Stone and Funkadelic, 396 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 1: the Temptations created an acid soul hybrid that was both 397 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 1: funky and far out. It was new territory for motown 398 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: in so many ways. First was the aggressive and trippy 399 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 1: musical style, not to mention a way in which many 400 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: songs had multiple lead singers instead of just one. The 401 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: lyrical content of tracks like Runaway Child, Running Wild, Smiling 402 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: Faces Sometimes, Ball of Confusion, That's what the World is today, 403 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 1: and Pubble was a Rolling Stone reflected a country and 404 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,840 Speaker 1: constant upheaval racked with paranoia, confrontation, and betrayal. And with 405 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,679 Speaker 1: Dennis Edwards's gruff and intense voice, the tone of The 406 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: Temptation's material became more urgent than ever. Less urgent were 407 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: the song's need to end quickly, again, breaking with Motown tradition. 408 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: Many album tracks pushed well into the six, seven, even 409 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: thirteen minute mark. Norman Woodfield had successfully seized his opportunity 410 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: to refine Motown records when it was at its most vulnerable, 411 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: and while the attempts were blazing these LSD trails, David 412 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,399 Speaker 1: soloac ordered on quaint nostalgia. Sure, he looks dynamite in 413 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,560 Speaker 1: the Summer of Soul documentary and his performance classic, But 414 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: to be singing My Girl in nineteen sixty nine was 415 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: to be singing a song of innocence that was five 416 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: years old, an eternity ago in the fast paced cultural 417 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:54,439 Speaker 1: revolution of the nineteen sixties. By comparison, the Temptation's music 418 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,760 Speaker 1: wasn't just successful creatively. The group continued to score high 419 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,040 Speaker 1: on the R and B and popped during this era, 420 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: including number one on both charts in the summer of 421 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine for the killer track I Can't Get 422 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: Next To You. In that same year, Norman Woodfield and 423 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: the Temptations scored Motown its first Grammy Award with the 424 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 1: song Cloud nine. It was an accomplishment that they'd never 425 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: achieved either. With David Ruffing or Al Bryan, and therein 426 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: lay Eddie Kendricks's problem. The Temptations were more popular and 427 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: more successful than they'd ever been before, and Barry Gordy 428 00:26:30,119 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: was still screwing them over. Eddie appealed to Otis Williams 429 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: and the other guys in the group. They needed to 430 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: stage a strike. No singing, no touring. They wouldn't put 431 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: a goddamn vocal on a goddamn track until Barry made 432 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:47,560 Speaker 1: things right. Eddie was overruled. The Temptations were successful, sure, 433 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 1: but they didn't have the clout of a Diana or 434 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 1: a Stevie or a Marvin. It was best to just 435 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 1: keep working hard, day in and day out, making what 436 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,639 Speaker 1: money they could, and hope that things would continue to 437 00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: work out in their favor down the road. Bullshit. Eddie 438 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: wasn't satisfied with the position his group was taking. Frankly, 439 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: he was pretty fucking unsatisfied. Eddie Kendricks marched down to 440 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: the Donovan Building at two four five seven Woodward Avenue, 441 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 1: the sight of Motown's business offices. He hadn't calmed down. 442 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: His head was full of the coked up conspiracies of 443 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: David Ruffin. Eddie could be next. Any of them could 444 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: be next, and they were being cheated. The time was 445 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: right fuck dancing in the streets. It was time to 446 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: get paid money. That's what I want. Eddie marched right 447 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:37,560 Speaker 1: through the front door, practically snapped the thing off its hinges. 448 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: The other temptations fall closely behind him. Come on at 449 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: he chill out, They said, let's all chill out and 450 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: take a minute and figure this out. You're gonna blow 451 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,160 Speaker 1: your stack in there. You're gonna regret this. Brother. Eddie 452 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 1: didn't listen. He was done listening. Barry Gordie was going 453 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: to listen now. That was where it was at. Eddie 454 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: blew past the secretaries, who asked if they could help, 455 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,560 Speaker 1: blew right into Barry's office, and Barry looked at Eddie 456 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: with a grin, smiling faces sometimes man. Eddie exploded, This 457 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:09,479 Speaker 1: motherfucker was ripping us off. He yelled and pointed his 458 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: finger at Barry. Gordy, do you know how many shows 459 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: we played and not gotten paid? We sold out Shay 460 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,320 Speaker 1: Stadium didn't see a motherfucking dime. I'm sick of this shit. 461 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: Eddie Kendricks looked like he was about to jump on 462 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: top of Berry Gordy's desk, like a replay of when 463 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: Abdullah jumped on A and R Man Ralph Seltzer's desk. 464 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: The berry Gordy didn't tremble, didn't back down. The calmer 465 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 1: he stayed. The more Eddie raged, and the more Eddie raged, 466 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: the more things remained the same between Motown and The Temptations. 467 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: Eddie was fighting a losing battle. As far as the 468 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: rest of the group was concerned. There was no battle, 469 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: but it drained Eddie Kendricks and pretty soon still bullshit. 470 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: He quit the Temptations, so did Paul Williams, the group's baritone, 471 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,720 Speaker 1: who had taken a beer bottle to the face back 472 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty three. But Paul didn't quit and sawid 473 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 1: with Eddie's money drama. Paul had his own damn problems. 474 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: His voice had been destroyed by alcohol, so at his 475 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: liver he suffered from sickle cell ambia. On how to 476 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: use an oxygen take he had to take off the 477 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: oxygen mask every time he lit up a smoke, which 478 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: was often. He owed the federal government back taxes to 479 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: the tune of eighty grand and he was currently shacking 480 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: up with a girlfriend seeing his wife had recently kicked 481 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,120 Speaker 1: him out of the house. All these facts led the 482 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: police to believe it was suicide. When a stranger stumbled 483 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: upon Paul's body in the early hours of August seventeenth, 484 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. He was on the pavement directly beneath 485 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: the open driver's side door of his Ford Maverick, the 486 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,200 Speaker 1: kind of car that David Ruffin wouldn't be caught dead in. 487 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: The pavement was bloody beneath Paul's head. Cops found a 488 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: smashed bottle of booze nearby, and a gun and two 489 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: bullets missing from the chamber. A single gunshot won't the 490 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 1: left temple close range killed him instantly, self inflicted, open 491 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,600 Speaker 1: and shot. Otis Williams was devastated when he heard the news, 492 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: but he wasn't shocked. Paul had been in a bad 493 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: way for a long time, and not everyone was so 494 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: sure that Paul Williams had taken his own life. Paul 495 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: was right handed, and the investigation determined that Paul did 496 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,680 Speaker 1: in fact fire the gun with his right hand, but 497 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 1: he had been shot in his left temple. How could 498 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: he have done that? But why didn't he just shoot 499 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: himself in the right temple instead of twisting his arm 500 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: around to the other side of his body, And what 501 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: about the broken bottle on the ground. There was also 502 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: the fact that the gun had two bullets missing, despite 503 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: the other fact that Paul had been shot only once. 504 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: Had someone else been there? Had there been a struggle? 505 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 1: Was Paul Williams murdered? To Paul's family, these questions were 506 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: valid and required answers, and the answers were never good enough. 507 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: Speaking about the tragedies of people like Paul Williams and 508 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: the super Creame's Florence Ballard, Marvin Gay said those people 509 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 1: were victims. The business turned them inside out. They couldn't cope. 510 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: Back at his apartment, David Ruffin did another line. His 511 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: paranoia reached a fever pitch as the powder hid his bloodstream. 512 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,920 Speaker 1: He worried that he had said too much to Eddie Kendricks. 513 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 1: According to the Pretzel logic going on inside his head, 514 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: he had offered counsel to Eddie, counsel that ultimately meant 515 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: Eddie's ejection from the band and thus gave David the 516 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: upper hand to rejoin. And that plan had backfired and 517 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 1: it had somehow gotten Paul killed. David knew it was 518 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,560 Speaker 1: it just his imagination, you know, running away with him. 519 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 1: In David's paranoid mind, the fantastical truth was staring them 520 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: all in the face. Motown had murdered Paul Williams to 521 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,000 Speaker 1: serve as an example to guys like David and Eddie. 522 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: Or so, when David's fucked up, thinking what becomes of 523 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: the broken hearted? At the broken hearted try to fight 524 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,960 Speaker 1: back against Motown to get off. 525 00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 2: That's what becomes of them. 526 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 1: Whether or not that was actually true, there was one 527 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: thing in David's mind that was indisputable, and it was 528 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: something he had said to Eddie. 529 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:27,480 Speaker 2: Any of them could be next. 530 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 1: Tammy Terrell took Marvin Gaye's hand in hers as they 531 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:41,000 Speaker 1: reached the climax of Ain't no Mountain high Enough, and 532 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: the spotlight was as locked on them as their eyes 533 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: were locked on each other. They weren't lovers in life, 534 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,760 Speaker 1: they were lovers in song, and the audience in Hampton 535 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: Sydney College could hear it in their voices and see 536 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: it in their faces. But then Tammy's face changed. Tammy 537 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: felt dis She looked at the microphone in her hand, 538 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: and it suddenly looked like a fussy square and the 539 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 1: room spun. The sound of the band playing behind them 540 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: became cavernous, and the music echoed in her head. She 541 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: looked over at Marvin, who was doing his best a 542 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: soldier on despite the obvious fact that his duet partner 543 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: was panicking. And then Tammy fell and the mic dropped 544 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,120 Speaker 1: to the floor. Marvin was there on the double just 545 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: as fast as he could. He caught her in his arms. 546 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: The white stretched limo came to a stop, and David Ruffin, 547 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 1: sitting in the backseat, came out of a daze. He'd 548 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 1: been thinking about Tammy again, who was nineteen ninety one, 549 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: more than two decades since her death, and David was 550 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: still thinking about her. He hadn't been there on that night, 551 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: back in nineteen sixty seven when she collapsed, but he 552 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: heard the story of what happened moments like these, Riding 553 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: in the back of a barrow, half stoned out of 554 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: his mind and on the prow for the next fix 555 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: to get him stoned the other half of the way, 556 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,280 Speaker 1: he replayed the story in his head. He thought about 557 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,240 Speaker 1: going to see Tammy at the hospital right after it happened, 558 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: and the doctors said it was a brain tumor. Tammy 559 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 1: didn't tell the doctors about all the times David had 560 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,000 Speaker 1: hit her in the head, but David heard the rumors 561 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,160 Speaker 1: around Motown that Tammy was in a bad way all 562 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 1: because of him, and no one dared confront David about 563 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: the rumors. They didn't want to be next. As the 564 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,840 Speaker 1: surgeries piled on, and then the chemo started and Tammy's 565 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,480 Speaker 1: hair fell out, and she lost her eyesight and became 566 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 1: partially paralyzed, David just stopped showing up. He'd moved on 567 00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,799 Speaker 1: to the next woman well before Tammy passed on in 568 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,520 Speaker 1: March nineteen seventy. Now, on June first, nineteen ninety one, 569 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,280 Speaker 1: David Ruffin was fifty years old, but looked and felt 570 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: at least fifteen years older. He'd been addicted to cocaine 571 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 1: for about as long as Tammy had been dead, probably 572 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: even longer if he was being honest. He used his 573 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,800 Speaker 1: cokepipe as a bonding mechanism with Eddie Kendricks and Dennis 574 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,279 Speaker 1: Edwards when in nineteen eighty two he and Eddie at 575 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: long last rejoined the Temptations for a reunion tour. In 576 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,839 Speaker 1: an album their Routine of Days Gone Past, Jin and 577 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:22,920 Speaker 1: soda followed by cocaine followed by pills was now replaced 578 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 1: with all hits from the pipe all the time. You 579 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,720 Speaker 1: can only imagine how quickly that reunion went off the rails. 580 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 1: He and Eddie felt the warm glow of the spotlight 581 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,279 Speaker 1: one more time when they played support to Haul of 582 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: Oates on their nineteen eighty five album Live at the Apollo, 583 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: even taking the stage with the Blue Eyed Soul Brothers 584 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: at Live Aid and cracking the top twenty with a 585 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 1: medley of the Way You Do, The Things You Do 586 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,400 Speaker 1: and My Girl that same year. But that was a 587 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,480 Speaker 1: brief ray of sunshine and a long line of cloudy 588 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: days for David Ruffin. After he did time and rehab 589 00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: in the late eighties, David still couldn't quit the coke. 590 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: He was thrown in jail for possession, did a year 591 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,800 Speaker 1: on the inside, and now a former rehabber, a former inmate, 592 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: and former temptation, David Ruffin wasn't holding He needed to score. 593 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: It was after midnight he gazed out the window at 594 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,880 Speaker 1: a three story house at the corner of Iola in 595 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:25,040 Speaker 1: North fifty second, Philadelphia, PA. He was in Philly because 596 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,879 Speaker 1: that's where the plane had landed. He'd flown back from 597 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,839 Speaker 1: London after a Quasi Temptations reunion tour he'd participated in 598 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,239 Speaker 1: with Eddie and Dennis. He carried a briefcase filled with 599 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: money he made on tour, forty thousand dollars in British 600 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: travelers checks. Like most of David's money, he knew it 601 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 1: wouldn't last him long. The three story house outside his 602 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 1: window was an oasis in an otherwise shady part of 603 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,480 Speaker 1: town for junkie luminaries like him. A crackhouse to the stars, 604 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 1: a crackhouse palace. The place didn't just have the best shit, 605 00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,440 Speaker 1: it had sofas and TVs and stereos so that you 606 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 1: could make yourself at home while taking a trip to 607 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,160 Speaker 1: Cloud nine. According to the limo's driver, Donald Brown, he 608 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 1: and David walked inside shortly after midnight and proceeded to 609 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:15,440 Speaker 1: smoke between five and ten vials of crack. Three hours later, 610 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,680 Speaker 1: Donald Brown frantically pulled the white stretched limo up to 611 00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,959 Speaker 1: the entrance of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital and laid 612 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:31,640 Speaker 1: on his horn. David Ruffin was summed in the backseat unconscious. 613 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,879 Speaker 1: Attendance from the hospital rushed outside and carried David into 614 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 1: the er. Less than an hour later, he was pronounced dead. Some, 615 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 1: like the surviving Temptations, were dismayed over another senseless tragedy 616 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,840 Speaker 1: that took another member of the Motown family away before 617 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:53,000 Speaker 1: his time. For others, like David's family, there were unanswered 618 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: questions like where was the forty thousand dollars in travelers 619 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,360 Speaker 1: checks that David was carrying. At the hospital, he was 620 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,000 Speaker 1: found with a meager fifty three dollars in his pocket, 621 00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,920 Speaker 1: and the forty grand had up been vanished? Was David 622 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,160 Speaker 1: set up? Had he been fed more drugs and he 623 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:10,839 Speaker 1: could handle so that it would make him an easy 624 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 1: target to rob? The questions drew parallels to the supposed 625 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 1: suicide of Paul Williams two decades earlier. Similar conspiracy theories 626 00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: began to bubble to the surface. How strong was the 627 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,280 Speaker 1: long arm of the Motown law. Was there a temptation's curse? 628 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,959 Speaker 1: It was hard to know. Many of those questions would 629 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:38,720 Speaker 1: go unanswered, maybe forever. 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