Underground Motown Week brings you the very sad story of Rodger Penzabene. The Motown songwriter found out that his wife had cheated on him, became inconsolable, wrote the lyric for this melancholy classic based on his own experience, and then committed suicide on New Year’s Eve, 1967, a week after the song was released:
An underrated classic, featuring a great vocal from the inimitable David Ruffin, one of the greatest soul singers of all time.