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John Mendelssohn, UCLA Daily Bruin, 26 February 1969

BROTHERHOOD, AN RCA group composed of three former Paul Revere underlings and a gutless organist named Ron Collins, have taken a timid, tiny step past the Tommy-and-Hobby-Rock that they are so at home with and have come up with an album that in making no demands on the sort of pimply cheerleader-types who are turned on by this stuff, will be just the thing for junior high sock hops. How groups like this can have the unfathomable gall to print their fatuous pre-pubescent lyrics on the album cover is beyond me.

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