Al Goodman (singer)

Willie Albert Goodman (March 31, 1943 – July 26, 2010)[1] was an American singer and writer who performed as part of the musical trio Ray, Goodman & Brown, a group that was earlier called The Moments and was known for their songs "Love on a Two-Way Street", "Sexy Mama" and "Look at Me (I'm in Love)" as The Moments and later, "Special Lady" after changing their name to Ray, Goodman and Brown.

Goodman was born on March 31, 1943, in Jackson, Mississippi[1] and started singing a cappella doo-wop while he was in high school.

[2] Robinson revamped the group The Moments on her Stang Records label, teaming Goodman's bass with the falsetto of Billy Brown and sole surviving original member John Morgan after an earlier incarnation of the group scored its first R&B chart hit in 1968.

Together, Ray, Goodman and Brown as The Moments went on to record such hits as "All I Have" and "Sexy Mama".

Terry Stewart of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum credit them as "one of those transitional tight-harmony love-ballad groups from the '60s that paved the way out of the doo-wop era to become one of the leaders of R&B for nearly two decades".