THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

466-The Moments & The Whatnauts-Girls.

1975-Number 3 single.Best Bit-At 2.03. Anything with a pulse.

The Moments, and The Whatnauts are two separate male vocal groups who were both signed to the same record label, who joined forces for this one off single.

The Whatnauts are an American Soul group who formed in Baltimore, Maryland, United States in 1969, consisting of five founding members. They released five singles between 1970-1974, and a final one in 1982, they also released three studio Albums between 1970-1972.The original line up of The Moments formed in 1965 in Washington D.C. United States. In 1978 the then line up of Harry Ray (1946-1992) Al Goodman (1943-2010) and Billy Brown who was now the only remaining founding member left the record label they had been with since 1969 to sign with Polydor records, but due to a contractual dispute they could no longer use the stage name ‘The Moments,’ and became known as ‘Ray, Goodman & Brown.’As The Moments there were 10 studio Albums released between 1969-1978, and 34 singles. As Ray, Goodman & Brown, there were a further seven studio Albums between 1979-1988, and another 15 singles, including the Billboard Number 5 hit ‘Special Lady,’ in 1979.

The Moments and The Whatnauts had both been signed to the ‘Stang’ record label, which was a subsidiary of ‘All Platinum’ records (see also best songs 597) which had been set up in 1967 by the husband and wife team of Sylvia Robinson (1935-2011) and her husband Joe Robinson, who passed away in 2000. In 1979 the Robinson’s set up a new subsidiary label, called ‘Sugar Hill Records’, but that’s another story (see also best songs (523-290 and 17.)

‘I’d like to be on an island, with five or six of them fine ones. Even one that ain’t good lookin,’ they’re the ones that do the best cookin.’