The Moments "To You With Love"
The Moments were formed by Sylvia Robinson, a major figure in R&B history who as a young singer had been a member of the duo Mickey & Sylvia, which had a hit in 1957 with “Love Is Strange,” and who was later a founder of Sugar Hill, one of the first hip-hop labels. Ms. Robinson and her husband, Joe, were also founders of the Stang label, for which the Moments recorded. She and Bert Keyes wrote “Two-Way Street” in 1968.
Creative tensions prompted the Moments to leave Stang in 1979, but because the label owned the rights to the group’s name they became Ray, Goodman & Brown. (Mark Greene, an original member of the Moments, later reclaimed the name for a group of his own.) They signed with Polydor and soon came out with “Special Lady,” which hit No. 1 R&B and No. 5 pop.