Talk:Tammi Terrell

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Oh really, can you hit somebody so hard that they get a tumour? Or what does the rumours say? That the brain tumour was not the cause of her death? Instead she died from a bleeding in her brain? What? Somebody needs to rewrite this section.

Some one definitely needs to include how she died. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.202.85.42 (talk) 14:53, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * And someone needs to read the article before making such a suggestion. Ward3001 (talk) 16:11, 9 August 2008 (UTC)


 * She had tumor in thalamus and was operated in January 1968 first time. Because of the location of the tumor it was very difficult and risky. I did not find out how malign the tumor was and if it was complitely removed. About half year later Tammi had again problems and headaches. That was why the cerebro-spinal fluid could not enough drain of the head, because one duct was out of function. They made 5 operations to solve this problem. Also this operations were risky. After that Tammi had partially Paralasis on right side and problems with her memory. The recovery was slowly, but she made proceedings in health the next 8 months. I don't know exactly what happened in late December 1969, when she was again in hospital up to 18th January. When Tammi died she was also in hospital and I have heard it was shortly after an operation.


 * In summery it is not clear if she died because brain-cancer or she died because the operations had made to strong demages. Because she had have long time heavy headaches (since 1965 or early 1966 ?) before the tumor was diagnosed, it seems possible to me, that it was not a (very) malign tumor. But to get serious informations about her illness and the cause of death is very difficult.
 * Sorry for my bad English! 83.135.96.200 (talk) 14:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

What does it mean to say "Terrell's relationship with David Ruffin was almost IRREPLACABLE"? "Irreplacable" is not a word. The word "irreplaceable" does not make sense as a substitute, since the sentence continues "[1], with some label mates and sources proclaimed that David Ruffin was responsible for Terrell's death". (Also, "proclaimed" is surely not the right form of this word, and "inappopriate" (from citation [1]) is also not right.) I'm not a wikipedia contributor, but maybe one of the 50 people who have worked on this page can do something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.208.54.183 (talk) 04:18, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Site of collapse
There is no source given for the detail that Tammi Terrell collapsed at Hampden-Sydney College (not Hampton Institute) when she was performing with Marvin Gaye. The article on Marvin Gaye lists a source for the same detail, but the addendum on the bottom of the listed page actually says Hampton. Unless a definitive source can be supplied, it should be noted that the site of the concert is variably listed as Hampden-Sydney or Hampton.--Aprjoy (talk) 04:14, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Update. Ogden hall listed in the article is located at Hampton Institute. I do not believe there is such a hall at Hampden-Sydney College. I am an alumni of Hampton. All of the sources I have read on line seem to indicate that the concert was at Hampden Sydney. For Clarity Ogden Hall should be eliminated from the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Steveshadow (talk • contribs) 01:31, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Americanisms
Are words like "hiatus" necessary? There seems to be far too many Americanisms on Wikipedia; isn't this a worldwide encyclopedia? 86.29.231.203 (talk) 21:09, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I have no idea what you're talking about. "Hiatus" isn't an Americanism. It's been an English word since the 16th century. 202.94.132.19 (talk) 10:47, 28 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm English and I've never heard the word used in everyday conversation, we'd be more likely to say 'break.' I see from your IP address that you're in Japan so not sure if you're British or not. 86.9.235.80 (talk) 19:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)


 * First of all, you misspelled "break", which suggests that we can't rely on your opinion about appropriate English usage. "Hiatus" is a perfectly acceptable English term throughout the world. Some words have different meanings depending on the country of use, but "hiatus" is not one of those words. Just because a couple of editors don't have sufficient vocabulary to use the word is no reason it should not be included in the article. So please, let's drop this and move on to more important matters. Ward3001 (talk) 15:31, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

in her early years
her EARLY years?? who captioned this photo? she died at 24! she didn't have "early" years, those were all the years she had. that caption looks ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.176.60 (talk) 04:38, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

"Early" and "late" are relative. The first half of a person's life could be described as their "early years" no matter how many years they lived. Every person has "early years" and "later years" whether they die at 24 or live to be 151. (66.162.249.170 (talk) 11:32, 13 August 2010 (UTC))

Ernie Terrell
Some sources (like this and this) claim that she was married briefly to the boxer Ernie Terrell. However, others (like this) claim that they were not married, indeed did not know each other, and that she was simply given the stage name Terrell by Berry Gordy who thought that Montgomery (her true surname) was too long for bills. The biography written by her sister absolutely refutes the idea that she was married to Ernie Terrell. Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:10, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Jean Terrell who was the leadsinger of the Supremes for some time, was Ernie's sister. That is the only relationship Ernie Terrell ever had to Motown. No connection to Tammi Montgomery whatsoever. Hartenhof (talk) 22:19, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 07:36, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

"Personal life" section
I just have to comment on "contributed to the volatility". Only in Wikipedia. What a line. Understatement of the decade. Sullidav (talk) 21:15, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
 * True, I'll trim the sentence to "This revelation and Ruffin's drug addiction led to violent arguments."Twixister (talk) 08:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)