What Becomes of the Brokenhearted singers The Originals and The Andantes. "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" peaked at number seven on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and at number six on the Billboard R&B Singles chart, as well as No. 8 on the UK Chart. Eight years later, the song was reissued (with a B-Side of Ruffin's minor US hit "Don't You Miss Me a Little Bit Baby"), and surpassed its original chart position, reaching No. 4, and thus making it his highest-placed chart single in the UK. The song originally featured a spoken introduction by Ruffin, similar in style to many of Lou Rawls' performances
The Quality of Mercy (album) in March 2006, Universal Music released the album in Norway. In February 2006, Harley was also in talks with a record company over releasing "The Quality of Mercy" in America. Such a release never came to fruition. In June 2005, before the release of the album, Gott Discs had released a 30th Anniversary Re-mix of the band's 1975 UK number one "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" as a single. On the CD edition of the single, a preview of the forthcoming album was titled "The Quality of Mercy Taster". This preview track featured an extract of two