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David Ruffin is a House act. Their sound grew out of Damon Harris, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes and The Supremes. Those roots explain a lot about how David Ruffin arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Jr. Walker & The All Stars, Smokey Robinson and Donny Hathaway, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Marvin Gaye, JAY-Z, Bitty McLean, Hoffmaestro & Chraa and Soul Khan, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around David Ruffin, reaching back through Damon Harris and forward to Marvin Gaye. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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David Ruffin connections
David Ruffin grew out of Damon Harris, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, shares an orbit with Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, Jr. Walker & The All Stars and Smokey Robinson, went on to shape Marvin Gaye, JAY-Z, Bitty McLean and Hoffmaestro & Chraa. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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