"Love on a Two-Way Street" is a soul ballad written by Sylvia Robinson and Bert Keyes in 1968.
Sylvia and Joe decided to release the song as a single in March 1970 and it went on to become one of the biggest R&B hits of that year, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Soul Singles chart and reaching number three on the Hot 100 chart.
Willie and The Mighty Magnificents provided most of the musical backing on the song and Bert Keyes created the string arrangement that was overdubbed onto the track while also playing piano on the recording session.
"True love will never die, so I've been told but now I must cry, it is finally goodbye, I know .
.Lezli Valentine wrote "while I bear the blame, as he laughs my name", the rest was completed, I recorded it; the lead sheets were hand delivered by one of the original Moments, John, who lived in DC.
The original application was altered without my knowledge (omitting Lezli Valentine's name as a lyric writer .
AKA Bert Keyes and several recording artists in the Soul Sound Studios at the time!
In 1981, 14-year-old artist Stacy Lattisaw covered "Love on a Two-Way Street."
This version also peaked at number 23 on the Cash Box Top 100 during August of that year.
The Moments' version of the song has been sampled by The AB's formally known as Asamov in 2005 for the song "Supa Dynamite", by Caribou in the track "Subotnick" from 2005's The Milk of Human Kindness, and by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' single "Empire State of Mind" in 2009.