Celebrate Motown 60! "Jimmy Ruffin It's Wonderful [[To Be Loved By You)"

[marv2]

This is a "wonderful" recording by Jimmy from January 1968:

[mowsville]

Absolutely the best...a very big hit here in the U.K in 1970.

[marv2]

Absolutely the best...a very big hit here in the U.K in 1970.

I like it a lot too. Unfortunately it did not get the same attention here in the States.

[Roger Polhill]

Thank you Marv, one of Jimmy`s best from "Ruff N` Ready" a favourite of mine.Hope you are well and did you like the discs ?

[marv2]

Thank you Marv, one of Jimmy`s best from "Ruff N` Ready" a favourite of mine.Hope you are well and did you like the discs ?

You are most welcome Roger. I LOVE the discs! I have shared them with family and friends during the Labor Day holiday. Thank you for being a friend......a GOOD friend!

[Roger Polhill]

Marv, the pleasure is all mine!

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

I like it a lot too. Unfortunately it did not get the same attention here in the States.

Well Marv, I was so high on this tune that in the 80's I had hatched a plan to take the Ruff 'N' Ready album down to our local radio station and ask them in person to play the "Wonderful" track. I was a very idealistic, teen-age Motown fanatic and I just KNEW if I made a good enough pitch, I could persuade someone to give the tune a spin on the station. Pity that I didn't carry through with that emotionally-charged idea!

[marv2]

Well Marv, I was so high on this tune that in the 80's I had hatched a plan to take the Ruff 'N' Ready album down to our local radio station and ask them in person to play the "Wonderful" track. I was a very idealistic, teen-age Motown fanatic and I just KNEW if I made a good enough pitch, I could persuade someone to give the tune a spin on the station. Pity that I didn't carry through with that emotionally-charged idea!

Oh that is great. I think like that too sometime. It is a really good record.

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

Oh that is great. I think like that too sometime. It is a really good record.

For the life of me, I can't understand why Motown seemed intent on holding back on those Dean/Weatherspoon numbers. For me, they had a very definite signature style every bit as commercial as H-D-H. They really knew how to work those choruses overtime!

[marv2]

For the life of me, I can't understand why Motown seemed intent on holding back on those Dean/Weatherspoon numbers. For me, they had a very definite signature style every bit as commercial as H-D-H. They really knew how to work those choruses overtime!

I've always said that Motown was an embarrassment of riches. They had so, so many talented people there in a variety of areas that it must have been difficult at times to decide who and what to support and promote. Dean & Weatherspoon wrote some superb songs. So did Frank Wilson, Sylvia Moy, Clarence Paul ,etc.etc. When HDH got hot, it took a good long while for them to cool down if they ever did while at Motown. A larger company could have handled all of that magnificence.

[WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance]

I've always said that Motown was an embarrassment of riches. They had so, so many talented people there in a variety of areas that it must have been difficult at times to decide who and what to support and promote. Dean & Weatherspoon wrote some superb songs. So did Frank Wilson, Sylvia Moy, Clarence Paul ,etc.etc. When HDH got hot, it took a good long while for them to cool down if they ever did while at Motown. A larger company could have handled all of that magnificence.

It is pretty staggering, not just the number of writers/producers Motown had, but also that there was hardly a dud in the lot. If I live to be 100 years old, I'll never completely fathom Motown had so much going on in a row of little houses in Detroit; and they their thing better than everyone else.