The Moments

The Moments stood among the steadiest R&B groups of the 1970s, delivering a steady run of significant successes across the decade. Formed as a Hackensack, New Jersey trio, the act made its debut—and simultaneously launched the Stang imprint—with the 1968 single “Not on the Outside.” Two years later the group reached the top of the R&B charts with the gold-certified “Love on a Two-Way Street,” a track helmed by Sylvia Robinson, formerly one half of the duo Mickey & Sylvia. Additional major soul successes arrived in the form of “If I Didn’t Care” and “All I Have” (both 1970), “Sexy Mama” (1973), and the chart-topping “Look at Me (I’m in Love)” (1975). In 1978 Harry Ray, Al Goodman, and William Brown adopted the new billing Ray, Goodman & Brown; the following year the rebranded lineup scored another number-one R&B hit with the sleekly harmonized “Special Lady,” released on Polydor. The trio sustained its status as reliable soul hitmakers well into the 1980s.