The Brothers Of Soul

A vocal trio known as the Brothers of Soul brought together Fred Bridges, Richard Knight, and Bobby Eaton, who put out multiple singles shaped by a smooth, uptown sound rooted in the Motown style. The group’s strongest showing arrived with the 1968 Boo Records release “I Guess That Don’t Make Me a Loser,” which reached the lower rungs of the R&B Top 40. Over time the track turned into a prized soul collectible and helped the trio cultivate an audience inside Southern California’s Latino community. Additional singles from the same period featured “Can’t Get You Off of My Mind,” “The Love I Found in You,” and “Candy.” Outside their own recordings, Bridges, Knight, and Eaton also functioned as a songwriting unit, supplying material most notably to Ruby Andrews throughout the late ’60s. The Brothers of Soul had disbanded by the mid-’70s, after which Eaton worked as a session singer while Bridges and Knight kept writing songs, a few of which the Four Tops eventually recorded. Fourteen Brothers of Soul tracks later appeared on the 1995 Collectables anthology titled I Guess That Don’t Make Me a Loser.