So the group brought David Ruffin in ... wrote “My Girl” with Ruffin in mind. “My Girl” ended up being the first Temptations song to feature Ruffin singing lead. It would not be the ...

"My Girl" also marked another milestone: the first Temptations single with David Ruffin as lead singer. Succeeding former original member Elbridge "Al" Bryant, Ruffin rounded out what became the ...

The Temptations have had 27 members in their ... with the best example being lead singer David Ruffin. He was with the group during what is often called their peak years (1964-68), but was fired ...

Later, still living in Britain, the singer made the seven-part series Jimmy Ruffin’s Sweet Soul Music for Radio 2. When his brother David, lead singer of the Temptations, died of a cocaine overdose in ...