NS528 The Brooks Bros. [1966] - Looking For A Woman [Tay 501]

528 The Brooks Bros. [1966] - Looking For A Woman [Tay 501]

b/w:	Two Great Lovers
Format:	45
Label:	Tay
Cat No:	501
Year:	1966
Value:	£1750

The Brook Bros. on this release were brothers Arthur, Richard and Harrison and Harrisons's son Harrison Jr.  It looks like Harrison wrote both sides and copyright was registered in March 1966. They released another 45 on Chicago's Thomas label in May of the same year (according to 45Cat) so it was probably released after the Tay 45.

Originally released on Tay 501-A but it was reissued (bootlegged?) on Kingy 81156 around 2004 with Melvin Davis - Find A Quiet Place (And Be Lonely) on the flip.

Tay was a subsidiary of Detroit Sound Studios owned by Turner & Taylor.  This appears to be the only release (listed).

Richard & Arthur Brooks moved from Cattanooga, Tennesses to Chicago in the 50s where they met Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield and they formed Jerry Butler & The Impressions in 1958, they left in 1962. The full story by Dave Welding (Soul Junction Records) has been posted on Soul Source by Chalky (Karl White), there is also another version on Soul Junction site.

After leaving the Impressions and recording a couple of 45s they moved back to Chattanooga in the 70s and formed Brothers, Sisters And Cousins but later had to change the name (over a name dispute from another band of the same name) to Bits 'N Pieces.

Jerry Butler & The Impressions 
Top: Jerry Butler, Sam Gooden, Arthur Brooks, Bottom: Richard Brooks, Curtis Mayfied

Discography (Excluding Impressions)

Brooks Bros./Brothers 
1966 Looking For A Woman / Two Great Lovers [Tay 501]
1966 You Got Something Baby / Come See [Thomas 302]

Brothers, Sisters And Cousins

1972 - Sinner (Have You Been There) / Smoke Stream [Nasco N 029]

Bits 'N Pieces

1973 - Did I Scare You / Smoke Stream [Nasco 031]

1974 - Keep On Running Away / Sinner (Have You Been There) [Nasco 033]

The Old (M) Pressions
1978 - Let Me Know / Right On [Brooks Brothers 9270]

A chance meeting by the wife of Dave Thorley (Stafford Top of The World Promoter and well respected DJ) on a business trip to Chattanooga unearthed some unreleased tracks via a CD presented to her by Richard Brooks. Two of these tracks have subsequently been released as a 45 on Soul Junction.

Richard Brooks
2014 - I'll Do Anything To Make You Happy / With All My Heart [Soul Junction SJ528]
2018 - It's Gotta Be A Change [Brooks & Johnson]

Very similar to 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction'.  The song was copyright registered in March 1966 so assume that the record was also released the same year ('Satisfaction' was released in 1965!)

The Brooks Bros. [1966] - Two Great Lovers [Tay 501]

The Brooks Brothers [1966] - You Got Something Baby [Thomas 306]

The Brooks Brothers [1966] - Come See [Thomas 306]

Starts off a bit like Fontella Bass' - Rescue Me.  I winder if there is a connection as both Chicago records released around the same time?

Brothers, Sisters And Cousins [1972] - Sinner (Have You Been There) [Nasco N 029]

Brothers, Sisters And Cousins [1972] - Smoke Stream [Nasco N 029]

Bits 'N Pieces [1974] - Did I Scare You? / Smoke Stream [Nasco 031]

Bits 'N Pieces [1974] - Keep On Running Away [Nasco 033]

Bits 'N Pieces [1974] - Sinner (Have You Been There) [Nasco 033]

Old (M) Pressions [1978] - Right On [Brooks Brothers NR9270]

Old (M) Pressions [1978] - Let Me Know [Brooks Brothers NR9270]

Richard Brooks [2014] - I'll Do Anything To Make You Happy [Soul Junction SJ528]

Richard Brooks [2014] - With All My Heart [Soul Junction SJ528]

Richard Brooks [2018] - It's Gotta Be A Change [Brooks & Johnson]

Found this available on CD Baby from 2018 ... still recording at 78! a Mayfield'ish bluesy number.