'how could I be so blind to give of love the very first time, to be fooled is a hurting thing'. With music softly playing his lips were gently saying honey I love you'.Sylvia wrote 'he held me in desperation, I thought it was a revelation and then he walked out'. 'True love will never die, so I've been told but now I must cry, it is finally goodbye, I know. I, Lezli Valentine, began to write the story line.

Sylvia asked Bert to play what he felt (that became the melody). Sylvia came into the office on the morning Two Way Street was created and said that she had a dream but that the only thing she remembered was 'Love on a Two-way Street, Lost on a lonely Highway.'-We went into Bert's office. 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.Īccording to the song's original vocalist, Lezli Valentine, she was a third contributor to the song, writing most of the song's lyrics: It was also certified gold by the RIAA for sales of one million copies. 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. The song was then recorded by The Moments, an R&B vocal group signed to All Platinum subsidiary Stang Records, as filler for their 1968 album Not on the Outside, But on the Inside, Strong!. The song was originally recorded by Lezli Valentine, an artist signed to All Platinum, the record label that Sylvia Robinson co-owned with her husband, Joe.

' Love on a Two-Way Street' is a soul ballad written by Sylvia Robinson, Lezli Valentine and Bert Keyes in 1968. From the album Not on the Outside, But on the Inside, Strong!

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