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But nobody delivered it with as much heart as David Ruffin ... All the same, a damn fine soul record from 1969. The Temptations were not the first group to record this song, but they were the ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.