Ray sang lead on the group’s next hit, “ If I Didn’t Care”, while Brown took the lead on “ All I Have”. However, just after the single was recorded, Moore left the group and was replaced by Harry Ray. It stayed at the top of the R&B chart for five weeks and reached #3 on the pop chart. With its cavernous echo surrounding a chanking guitar and gentle bass undertow, the production on “Love On A Two – Way Street” highlighted Brown’s wimpy falsetto, somehow suggesting that there was a full uptown orchestra behind him. With Moore the group recorded “ I’m So Lost” and “Lovely Way She Loves” in 1969, an their mega-hit, “Love On A Two-Way Street”, in 1970. The new line-up reached the R&B Top 10 the next year with the doo- woppy “ I Do”, but Morgan, the last original member of the group, was then replaced by Robinson’s brother-in –law John Moore. They were replaced by Billy Brown, who had previously been in The Broadways, and Al Goodman. However, Greece and Gross were fired by the label owners after a couple of gigs at the Apollo Theatre went badly. Their first single, the pleading ballad “ Not On The Outside”, reached #13 on the R&B chart that year. Mark Greene, Richard Gross and John Morgan, all from Washington, DC, signed to Joe and Sylvia Robinson’s All Platinum organization as The Moments in1968. Nevertheless, The Moments and Ray, Goodman & Brown, as they later became known, had a string of R&B hits between the late 60s and the late 80s. With a couple of exceptions, they recorded fairly formulaic sweet doo-wop-influenced soul during the funk and disco era for a label that didn’t have and sweetening on their records. Just Because He Wants To Make Love (Doesn’t Mean He Loves You) 3.30Īgainst all the odds The Moments were one of the most consistent hit-making groups in the history of R&B. This is a fine vinyl rip of the original Chess Record including covers.ģ. The rest of you enjoy all the hits and more. If you’ve never heard them, pick this one up, and you won’t want to put it down. The wailing first tenor of Billy Brown, the seductive second of Harry Ray, and the filling bottom supplied by Al Goodman makes for sheer listening pleasure.
Three-part harmony unmatched by many other groups of their time, or since, for that matter. The Moment s typify the ‘Old Skool’ sound. These boys from Jersey will not disappoint you! Even some of the lesser known songs are noteworthy and worth checking out. “Love on a Two Way Street”, “Sexy Mama”, “Not on the Outside”, “Look at Me(I’m In Love)”, etc.
So this rare double LP contains almost every single of The Moments. I do not usually post “Greatest Hits” but you keep seek for more of this beloved sweet soul trio.
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