The Brogues was a Merced

Merced, California

Merced is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 78,958. Incorporated in 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government...

, California band formed in 1964 by Eddie Rodrigues (guitar), Rick Campbell (organ), Greg Elmore

Greg Elmore

Greg Elmore is an American drummer, formerly with The Brogues and the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service....

 (drums) and Bill Whittington (bass). They became a five-piece when guitarist Gary Grubb (also known as Gary Cole, and better known as Gary Duncan

Gary Duncan

Gary Duncan is an American musician, once guitarist with The Brogues, then most notably with Quicksilver Messenger Service, where the complex interplay between himself and fellow-guitarist John Cipollina did much to define the unique sound of that San Francisco based band.-Early life and musical...

) joined.

The band recorded only six songs: a demo session for "Someday" and "Journey", and two released singles "Someday"/"But Now I Find" and "(I Ain't No) Miracle Worker"/"Don't Shoot Me Down".

"(I Ain't No) Miracle Worker" is their best known song. It has been included in the compilations Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era is a compilation album of American garage rock singles released in the mid- to late 1960s. It was assembled by Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra Records, and Lenny Kaye, later lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group...

and Trash Box

Trash Box

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, and has been covered by several groups, including The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chesterfield Kings

The Chesterfield Kings

The Chesterfield Kings are a rock band from Rochester, New York, who began as a retro-1960s garage band, and who have heavily mined 1960s music, including some borrowing from the 1960s recordings of The Rolling Stones...

 and The Barracudas

The Barracudas

The Barracudas are an English based Anglo-Canadian band formed in the late 1970s.The band's original lineup consisted of: Jeremy Gluck , Robin Wills , Starkie Phillips and Adam Phillips....

. There is also an Italian version by I Corvi, titled "Ragazzo di Strada". "Don't Shoot Me Down" has been included in Pebbles, Volume 10 (LP)

Pebbles, Volume 10 (LP)

Pebbles, Volume 10 is a compilation album among the LP's in the Pebbles series. The music on this album has no relation to Pebbles, Volume 10 that was released on CD many years later.-Release data:...

.

The band dissolved in 1965 when Rodrigues joined the U.S. Army. Gary Grubb and Greg Elmore later joined San Francisco-based Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service

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, and received acclaim and relatively wide commercial success.