Talk:Jimmy Ruffin

David Ruffin
Who's that? LARA ♥LOVE  05:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyright problem
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 * I have now rewritten the text. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:44, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Birth Date
Various internet sources have the DOB as 1936 or 1939. They are about equally split, with ~8000 hits searching Google for name + May 7, 1936 vs 11,000 for name + May 7, 1939. Search instead for name + "born" + the date returns 20k results for 1936 or 18k for 1939. Most of the major media outlets are going with 1936. --Blainster (talk) 03:07, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * And either he was approaching his second or his fifth birthday when David was born. At the moment it says "second" in the article, but his birth date is still 1936. Either 1936 and "fifth birthday" or 1939 and "second birthday", please. Calle Widmann (talk) 05:09, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


 * According to the 1940 US Census - which I can access via Ancestry.com here but which is also publicly available elsewhere, I believe - he was aged 4 at the time. Living with father Eli (age 46) and mother Ophelia (age 30), and siblings Quincy (age 10) and Reada (age 6) at Yantley Road, Beat 5, Lauderdale County, Mississippi.  His name is given as Jimmie L. Ruffin, which corresponds with the spelling on his gravestone here (and the spelling of his children's names, incidentally).  The 1940 census record also shows his father Eli as a lumber mill truck driver, rather than a sharecropper.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:18, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted's 1966 UK Peak
You had its UK 1966 Peak as No.10. That is wrong. It reached No.8. It had 2 Top 10 Weeks in 1966. One was No.10, then it fell to No.12, & then it rose back into the Top 10, to its Peak of No.8. So I've put No.8 where you had No.10. 82.6.134.233 (talk) 19:01, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * According to the official chart site here, it reached no.10. Are you using a different, non-"official", chart? Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:56, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

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== 'Booper'? When I toured with Jimmy, he often mentioned his son: Jimmy Ruffin Jnr, AKA 'Booper'.Some years later. I read that Jimmy Ruffin Jnr had passed away, although I'm unable to find ANY reference on this. Should anyone be able to assist on this, then I would be most grateful. Thank you. ==

Jimmy Ruffin Snr, had an apartment in London's Bayswater, where we spent many an hour on his new album. Great days...Thank you Jimmy Lee. 185.42.21.170 (talk) 04:42, 15 December 2022 (UTC)