 During this time, David Ruffin began following the group around as he aspired to join them.During a local Detroit performance, Ruffin joined the group onstage and impressed the group with his vocal talent and dancing skills.Following that same time, Al Bryant had grown frustrated with the group's lack of success and became restless and uncooperative, preferring the mundane routine of his day job as a milkman over the rigors of rehearsal and performing.