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Obituaries
Al Goodman dies
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 July 2010
Al Goodman, one third of R&B trio Ray, Goodman & Brown, has died aged 67.
Goodman originally rose to fame as one third of Moments, a trio which also included Billy Brown and Johnny Moore and scored a hit in 1969 with ‘Love On A Two-Way Street’. Moore was soon replaced in the trio by Harry Ray, and they went on to enjoy a number of other hits throughout the seventies in both the pop and R&B charts. Moments had been created by R&B mogul Sylvia Robinson, who is perhaps better known now as the woman behind one of the earliest commercial hip hop ventures in the form of Sugar Hill Records and the Sugar Hill Gang.
When, in the late seventies, the three members of Moments started to fall out with Robinson and her team at the Stang record label they decided to go their own way but, with Robinson owning the rights in the Moments name, they needed a new moniker. Onwards they were known as Ray, Goodman & Brown and they enjoyed further hits under that name, in particular ‘Special Lady’, their first single release after signing to Polydor in 1979.
Goodman is survived by his son James and second wife Henrietta.
