"David," she shouted, "slow down, for heaven's sake ... and palled around with Linster "Butch" Murrell, the owner of a small limo service. Murrell remembers watching Ruffin sometimes disappear ...

And there appears the following: “David Ruffin had split after the recording of ‘Cloud Nine,’ and many around the group ... ain’t even safe no more to walk the streets at night ...

Not many singers were David Ruffin. “David was lucky for us,” said Eddie Kendricks, his co-lead singer, and in the beginning, that was true. Around 1963 ... said it all: Walk Away From Love.