David Ruffin - "David" Unreleased LP & More

Original LP information page

Tracks 1-12 scheduled to be released as David, Motown 733, circa June/July 1971. Some sources list the album title as David Ruffin, which became the title of his following LP, in February 1973.

Tracks 1, 4, 11 and 12 issued as mono singles.

Album mixes of the following tracks were released:

Each Day Is A Lifetime - on the CD David Ruffin: The Best Of/20th Century Masters, Motown 159501, October 10, 2000

I Want You Back - on the Various Artists CD, The Motown Sings Motown Treasures: The Ultimate Motown Rarities Collection Vol. 1

Let Somebody Love Me - on the CD David Ruffin: The Ultimate Collection, Motown 0959, September 22, 1998

The single mix of You Can Come Right Back To Me was issued on the U.K.-only Various Artists CD, Soul Satisfaction 4, Motown 066 037, January 5, 2004

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Bonus Tracks & Mono Single Mixes information page

Tracks 20 and 21 issued as A & B side of single Motown 1178, February 1971
The B-side hit the Billboard Pop 'Bubbling Under' chart, #110

Tracks 22 and 23 issued as A & B side of single Motown 1187, July 1971

#1-12 sourced from original album master reels
#13 sourced from end of original LP master reel
#14-17 from original mixed outtake reels
[14-16 mono only; #17 stereo]
#18 & 19 mixed from original 16-track session reels by Suha Gur, Ellen Fitton and Harry Weinger, April 2004
#20-23 from original single master reels; 20-22 are mono, #23 is a stereo master summed to mono

All songs recorded at Hitsville (Studio A) and Golden World (Studio B), except the backing track for "Dinah," and overdubs in "For The Shelter Of Your Love" and "Get Away Heartbreak," as noted.

All songs previously unreleased except as noted.

MUSICIANS:
Earl Van Dyke, Johnny Griffith, James Jamerson, Bob Babbitt, Uriel Jones, Pistol Allen, Eddie Willis, Robert White, Joe Messina, Dennis Coffey, Jack Ashford, Eddie "Bongo" Brown, the Motown Horns & the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

BACKGROUND VOCALISTS:
The Andantes, The Originals and possible the Spinners

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Release credits page

Digitally Mastered by Suha Gur and Ellen Fitton at Universal Mastering Studios-East

Photographs courtesy of Motown Records Archives

Vault Research: Andrew Skurow, thanks to Douglas Rausch and Amy Herot

Anything That You Ask For: Special thanks to Clay McMurray, Ivy Jo Hunter, Pam Sawyer, Alan Warner, David Ritz, and the late Johnny Bristol

(C) 2004 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Non-release notes

From Hip-O Select: CD edition limited to 3500 individually numbered copies.

Exact release date culled the online Motown discography Don't Forget The Motor City