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Thread started 08/23/18 3:40pm

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What was the story behind Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin collabing with Hall & Oates?

How/why did that union come to be and how/why did it come to end? Are there any particular details behind these 2 duos coming together?
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Reply #1 posted 08/23/18 4:02pm

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Daryl performed on shows with The Temptations in the 1960s. He was in a group called The Temptones. Daryl was also later a session musician for Thom Bell and Gamble & Huff before Hall & Oates started. So he knew some of the R&B/soul groups of that era.

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #2 posted 08/24/18 1:11pm

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John released an autobiography in 2017. I haven't read it, but maybe he mentions how the tour with Eddie & David came about.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #3 posted 08/30/18 1:45pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #4 posted 09/01/18 8:56pm

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Thanks Micky.

Gotta check out Oates' memoir. Should have brought it when it was still at Barnes & Noble.
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