Song:Girls
Album:Love On A Two-Way Street
I've talked about The Moments before. They were a very popular 70s smooth R & B group who for legal reasons became Ray, Goodman & Brown in 1978. They had several hits including the 1970 R & B chart topper Love On A Two Way Street. So Harry Ray, Al Goodman and William Brown were very well established by the mid-70s. They were on the All Platinum/Stang label owned by Sylvia Robinson (Mickey & Sylvia). The Whatnauts were also on Stang. They were from Baltimore led by lead singer Billy Herndon along with Garrett Jones and Gerald Pinkney. They had a top 20 R & B hit in 1971 with I'll Erase Away Your Pain. But they clearly weren't as successful as The Moments. Sylvia put the groups together in 1975 mainly to help The Whatnauts. Girls was written by Ray and Goodman and it reached #25 on the R & B charts. I don't think it helped The Whatnauts much as it doesn't appear that they ever recorded again. And of course The Moments continued to be successful even after they became Ray, Goodman & Brown. This 2CD comp from Castle has Girls on it. Some other Moments comps don't include it. Castle has also released a Whatnauts comp. Here are The Moments performing Girls on Top Of The Pops 1975.
No comments:
Post a Comment