Reelin’ In the Years 97: Farewell is a Lonely Sound – RIP Jimmy Ruffin

I saw Jimmy Ruffin’s obituary in the Guardian this week. Another one down.

Perhaps forever haunted by What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, of which his version is still the best, he had relatively little other success.

I’ve Passed This Way Before didn’t seem quite appropriate. This one, more so.

Jimmy Ruffin: Farewell is a Lonely Sound

Jimmy Lee Ruffin: 7/5/1936 – 17/11/2014. So it goes.

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