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RIP 'What Becomes of the Broken Hearted' singer Jimmy Ruffin

The brother of the Temptations' David Ruffin was 78.

Jimmy Ruffin, the Detroit singer whose soaring, majestically bereft 1965 song "What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" is one of the greatest of Motown hits, has died. He was 78.

Ruffin was the older brother of late Temptations singer David Ruffin, who died in Philadelphia in 1991. The elder Ruffin died in a Las Vegas hospital on Monday according to his Detroit News obituary. Ruffin also had minor Motown hits with "I've Passed This Way Before" and "Gonna Give Her All The Love I Got," and in 1980 released a comeback album called Sunrise produced by the Bee Gees' Robin Gibb, which included the hit "Hold On To My Love."

"What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted" is below. Is it the greatest Motown song recorded by an artist who is principally known for only that one song? Probably.

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