The Silhouettes had actually backed Eric Mercury on his single, "I Wondered Why" bw "Softly", released on Clip 1122 in 1966.
[2] In his book, A Stroke of Luck, William "Smitty" Smith wrote that Brooks and Kennedy were romantically involved.
According to Michel Ruppli's book on the Verve discography, on November 17th of that year, four songs were recorded with Harvey Brooks (no relation to Diane) who was producing at the time.
[8] In mid-1967, members of the group did provide vocal backing for Mandala on their Soul Crusade album that was released on Atlantic Records.
[2] Also in that period, along with The Free Spirits and Tiny Tim, the group appeared at The Scene on the same bill as The Doors on various nights in May and June.
[9][10] At some stage Brooks had left the band after falling in love with a hairdresser, leaving Mercury to be the front man.
They had been playing in Detroit at the time when a session was set up around the middle of the night in a small spartan studio.
The song "Lonely Girl" which was written by William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter had been rejected by Motown.
[16] The killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as hearing about Richie Havens was doing musically were other things that prompted him to leave.
[18] He was also a member of Dr. Music and later played on albums by David Clayton-Thomas, Eric Mercury, Diane Brooks and Leon Hayward etc.
[19] After Motherlode, William Smith worked with Etta James, David Foster, Richie Havens and Crosby, Stills and Nash in the 1970s and in the 1980s, more session work with artists such as Tracy Chapman, Linda Ronstadt, Maurice White, Jackson Browne, Bruce Willis, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner and The Pointer Sisters.
On New Year's Day 1992, he suffered a stroke and on November 26, 1997, he died of a heart attack in Sherman Oaks.