It’s the great David Ruffin in his prime, with Motown’s Funk Brothers band in full flower and the company’s producers and arrangers on their game. In late 1969 David Ruffin was having a good year, following a bad one. His album and single, “My Whole World Ended,” was a smash hit on his second album, appropriately titled Feeling Good. The slender “Ruff” seemed to have overcome the nastiness of the year before, when he’d had a volatile split with the Temptations, for whom he’d sung memorable leads on timeless songs like “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg.” Ruffin, 28 years old, begins work on a third album, with Motown producers Clay McMurray, Johnny Bristol, Henry Cosby, Ivy Jo Hunter, Smokey Robinson and Duke Browner. One of the tracks that comes out of this session was “Each Day Is A Lifetime.” Unfortunately the proposed album was shelved and not unearthed and distributed until just recently, however this single did get circulated in 1970 before any of that happened. Kick back and enjoy the master at the top of his game.
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