The Brigands were an American garage rock act who are best known for the 1966 song, "(Would I Still Be) Her Big Man", which appeared as the A-side of a single released on Epic Records.
[2] They point out that there are no printed artifacts available, such as flyers and listings of live performances, records of battles of the bands, and newspaper clippings.
[2][3] They also point out that, since the song was released on Epic Records and produced by Artie and Kris Resnick, who wrote the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'" and other popular hits of the time, it is unlikely that such an unknown band would have received the attention of such well-known and established fixtures, unless the song had been recorded by a "ghost band" of session musicians under their tutelage.
[1][2][3] A 2002 video on Forest Hills High School's website about a reunion of Forest Hills (Queens, NY) High School students features an Anderson Cooper interview with two alumni (Elliott Wertheim and John Hartmann) who were in The Brigands.
[1][2][3][4][6] The song's lyrics depict the worries of a factory worker who spends his hard-earned money dressing up to impress his lover, a woman with expensive tastes, but wonders if she will still love him when she finds out that he is working class.