These are The Rascals’ records, listed for what the two brothers did on them. Every side carries its writers, who sang it, and who built the harmonies underneath. That last line is usually missing from a discography. It shouldn’t be.
Eddie left the band in 1970. The records they made after him are not listed here.
A cover of a record by The Olympics, taken at a gallop. Their first number one, and still the one everybody knows.
No drums to speak of, a conga, a bassline that strolls, and two voices in the middle of it. It sounds like the afternoon it describes.
Eddie out front. Accordion, waltz time, and a lyric that never quite resolves the question it asks.
David Brigati co-wrote this. He is not on the original label credit.
“How Can I Be Sure,” sheet music — Atlantic Record No. 2438.
Atlantic Records · Shown editorially
The album’s title track. The fifth Rascal steps out from behind the harmonies for one song.
King in April. Kennedy in June. This came out in July and spent five weeks at number one — a pop group at the height of its power releasing a plain, unhedged record about human freedom.
The Rascals’ singles, in order, with the brothers’ credits.
The band’s albums, and what Eddie and David did on each.
Eddie on lead and harmony vocals; David arranging and singing the backgrounds.
Cavaliere–Brigati writing on half the record.
Carries both “Groovin’” and “How Can I Be Sure” — Eddie out front on the second.
David sings lead on the title track — the one time the fifth Rascal steps out from behind the harmonies.
Eddie’s writing partnership with Cavaliere is winding down by this point.
A double album, and the band’s most ambitious record.
The last one Eddie made with them. The band carried on without him; those records are not listed here.
The brothers' own record — Eddie and David, billed as Brigati, written with Edwin Kobylarz.