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Post by kalisa2 on Oct 15, 2004 22:43:29 GMT -5
LOL ... There are 34 David Ruffin songs in the data base ... But only 29 are his ... 5 are David Juniors ;D But still david has 29 CO-writting credits ... And some of those he is only the ARTIST ... so about 15-20 songs are actually PART PENNED by David ;D No, the 34 are his...if you get the full listing, he is mostly the performer...I can find about 4 or so where their coding MIGHT indicate him as "author" (the little "a" before his name), but some, like "Walk Away from Love" and "Superstar", we know he didn't write, so I'm not counting that little "a" for much. The only for sure, besides "Statue of a Fool", is "A Day in the Life of a Working Man" where it says "w & m Bobby Miller & David Ruffin". |
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Post by kalisa2 on Oct 15, 2004 23:31:47 GMT -5
Now, if you will go to BMI.com, probably (not sure, but its the name I know) the main performing rights organization in the US, you will find 412 songs licensed to Jan Crutchfield as a/the writer-composer. Zip for David Ruffin  . I don't know exactly what that means. On the other hand, you will find 22 listed for Eddie Kendricks (as Eddie Kendricks, Eddie Kendrick and Eddie James Kendrick). (I bring this up because obviously David's friend Eddie knew how to take care of the licensing business, and would surely have passed it on to David if David were writing songs when they were associated.) |
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Post by peece on Oct 16, 2004 16:23:58 GMT -5
This is such an interesting thread. David a teenager, hungry and away from home and family, in Tennesee, just might have sold such a song to get food or even bus fair back home.  |
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Post by kalisa2 on Oct 16, 2004 17:01:53 GMT -5
This is such an interesting thread. David a teenager, hungry and away from home and family, in Tennesee, just might have sold such a song to get food or even bus fair back home. Yes, that part is easy to imagine, for sure. I keep trying to come up with scenarios where he might have sold it WHERE he did and TO WHOM he did, and unfortunately come up empty on that one ....unless he sold it to somebody *not Jan Crutchfield* who in turn sold/traded/passed it on to Mr. Crutchfield... |
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