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I was determined to record David but he was so unreliable. So Ronnie McNeir sold me a vocal which he had cut with him, called HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE. I had already worked for many years with his brother Jimmy Ruffin. David had only agreed to let me record a new song using his vocals if I paid him three thousand dollars in cash, which he collected from United Sound, but he tried to grab hold of the money without signing the contract, but Mattie was too tough to let him get away with it. Ten days before his death from a drug overdose he was in England and I spent a whole evening with him, and he was gushing with praise at the work that I had produced out of his vocal. One of the greatest artists I ever worked with, despite his drug problems.