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Farewell Is a Lonely Sound

December 20, 2023

"Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" is a song by American soul singer Jimmy Ruffin, released as a single in October 1969 from his album Ruff'n Ready. It peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]

"Farewell Is a Lonely Sound"
Cover of the single released in the Netherlands
Single by Jimmy Ruffin
from the album Ruff'n Ready
B-side"If You Will Let Me, I Know I Can"
ReleasedOctober 7, 1969 (1969-10-07)
RecordedMarch 1967
StudioHitsville U.S.A., Detroit, Michigan
GenreSoul
Length2:56
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • James Dean
  • William Weatherspoon
Jimmy Ruffin singles chronology
"I've Passed This Way Before"
(1969) 		"Farewell Is a Lonely Sound"
(1969) 		"It's Wonderful (To Be Loved by You)"
(1970)

Release and reception edit

"Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" was recorded in March 1967 at Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. studio, but was only first released in March 1969 on the album Ruff'n Ready.[2] Having released two singles from the album in 1968, "I'll Say Forever My Love" and "Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me", both of which had failed to make much of an impact on the charts, the record label chose to release "Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" as a single in a last attempt to get a hit song from the album. It was released in the US in October 1969 and in the UK in February 1970.[3]

The single was re-released in October 1974 after a re-release of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" became a top-ten hit in the UK for the second time.[3]

Reviewing for Record Mirror, James Hamilton described the song as "very much in the mould of his past hits, it's a semi-slow sentimental swayer, to the well-tried formula".[4]

Track listings edit

7": Soul / S-35060 (1969)

  1. "Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" – 2:56
  2. "If You Will Let Me, I Know I Can" – 2:59

7": Tamla Motown / TMG 922 (1974)

  1. "Farewell Is a Lonely Sound" – 2:56
  2. "I Will Never Let You Get Away" – 2:55

Charts edit

Chart (1969–70) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 20
UK Singles (OCC)[1] 8
US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 (Billboard)[6] 104
Chart (1974) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[7] 30

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Jimmy Ruffin: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  2. ^ "Don't Forget the Motor City". www.dftmc.info. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  3. ^ a b Betts, Graham (2014-06-02). Motown Encyclopedia. AC Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-311-44154-6.
  4. ^ "America Awakes" (PDF). Record Mirror. 7 February 1970. p. 14. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Farewell Is a Lonely Sound". Irish Singles Chart.
  6. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–1981. Record Research. p. 144. ISBN 9780898200478.
  7. ^ "Jimmy Ruffin: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.


December 20, 2023
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