When David Ruffin Purposely Outperformed Diana Ross:

[sup_fan]

If you're chewing my ass Rob, to be clear, I did not create the youtube feature now being discussed......
I doubt seriously though that anyone reading this supposed revelation is walking away from it with the notion of "Oh dear, Ruffin tried to put Miss Ross in her place? That does it, I'm through with anything Motown."

To summerize what the poster claims: when Ruffin was at The Ed Sullivan theatre, he witnessed Diana parading around being demanding and being horrible to her underlings, The Supremes. He found it outrageous and talked to Mary about it, which in doing so apparently angered him even more. Then he found out that Diana had changed his song to better suite her voice and that took him over the top. And he vowed to get even on stage. All this is what the youtuber claims without giving sources [reese??].

I didn't know any of this but I can now watch the performance and see that Diana does excellently throughout this ....until David arrives and it appears she can't keep up as David sings at her and then Diana literally gives up , dropping her mic, before her recorded voice is through playing over her, taking her bows first and stepping forward as if to retake control of the situation.

Part of what is complicating this is my belief that the whole thing is prerecorded ...so there's little room for spontaneity or on stage gymnastics by either of them. So there are no surprises happening.... apparently it was intentional that David out-sing her in the end with Diana mostly standing there and being sung at.



*There's more about your point which is being asserted here in this video .......

Ruffin could hardly have held much ground with judging people on poor behavior. he was one of the key leads of the Temps but his behavior was so bad they kicked him out.

[Boogiedown]

reese: That's Cindy. She moves her head when she sings it.

On further review , I agree... the heard vocal is assigned to her [without a microphone.]

Ruffin could hardly have held much ground with judging people on poor behavior. he was one of the key leads of the Temps but his behavior was so bad they kicked him out.

well its funny you should say that .....as I mentioned, this video addresses that.
To cut to the chase: his emboldened behavior was all Diana's fault!