Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne “Bobby” Womack (/ˈwoʊmæk/; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, andproducer. Since the early 1960s, when he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical groupThe Valentinosand asSam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack’s career spanned more than 50 years, during which he played in the styles ofR&B, soul,rock and roll,doo-wop,gospel, andcountry. Womack wrote and originally recorded the Rolling Stones' first UK No. 1 hit, "It’s All Over Now" andNew Birth's "I Can Understand It" among other songs. As a singer he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' For a Love", "That’s The Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman’s Gotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street", and his 1980s hit "If You Think You're Lonely Now".

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Biography

1.1

1944–1966: Early life and career: The

Valentinos

Main article:The Valentinos

Born in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, near East 85th Street and Quincy Avenue, to Naomi Womack and Friendly Womack, Bobby was the third of five brothers.[3]

Friendly Jr. and Curtis were the older brothers,Ceciland Harrywere his younger brothers. They all grew up in the Cleveland slums, so poor that the family would fish pig snouts out of the local supermarket’s trash. He had to share a bed with his brothers.[4]_{His mother told him he}

could “sing his way out of the ghetto”.[5]_{Bobby recalls:}

We came up very poor. My kids have had a much better life than I'd ever thought of livin'[6]

And:

The neighborhood was so ghetto that we didn't bother the rats and they didn't bother us.[4]

Raised Baptist, their mother played the organ for the church choir, and their father was a steelworker,[7]

part-time minister, musician who played the guitar and also sang gospel. Their father would advise his sons to not

touch his guitar while he was away. One night, eight-year-old Bobby, who was often playing it, broke a guitar string. After Friendly replaced the string with ashoelace,[8] _he

let Bobby play the guitar for him. According to Bobby, Friendly was stunned by his son’s talents as well as the tal-ents of his other sons. Soon afterwards, he bought Bobby his own guitar.

Bobby’s career started before he was 10,[6]_{when he}

be-gan touring with his four brothers, Curtis, Harry, Cecil and Friendly, Jr., on the midwest gospel circuit in the mid-1950s, initially as The Womack Brothers.[9] _The

gospel group toured along with their parents accompany-ing them on organ and guitar. In 1954, under the moniker

Curtis Womack and the Womack Brothers, the group

issued the Pennant single, “Buffalo Bill”.[3]_{More records}

followed.[9]

Sam Cooke, the lead singer ofThe Soul Stirrers, first saw the group performing in the mid-1950s. He became their mentor and helped them go on tour. They went on na-tional tours withThe Staple Singers.[4]_{Even though}

Cur-tis Womack often sang lead, Bobby Womack was allowed to sing alongside him showcasing his gruff baritone vocals in contrast to his older brother’s smoother tenor. During performances, Bobby would sometimes imitate the role of a preacher, which later became his nickname.[7]_{At just}

16, Bobby dropped out of high school.[9]

At the beginning of the 1960s, Cooke formed SAR Records and signed the quintet to the label in 1961, where they released a handful of gospel singles.[10]_Then,

Cooke changed their name to The Valentinos, relocated them to Los Angeles and convinced them to transition from gospel music to secular soul- and pop-influenced sound.[4] _{Cooke produced and arranged the group’s first}

hit single, "Lookin' for a Love", which was a pop ver-sion of the gospel song, “Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray”, they had recorded earlier. The song became an R&B hit and helped land the group an opening spot forJames Brown's tour. The group’s next hit came in 1964 with the country-tinged "It’s All Over Now", co-composed by Bobby. Their version was rising on the charts whenThe Rolling Stonescovered it.

Womack was also a member of Cooke’s band, touring and recording with him from 1961.[10]_{The Valentinos’ career}

was left shaky after Sam Cooke was shot and killed in a Los Angeles motel. Devastated by the news, the brothers disbanded and SAR Records folded. Womack continued to work as a session musician. Between 1965 and 1968 he toured and recorded with Ray Charles.[10]

1.2

1967–1972: Early solo career

Circa 1965, Womack relocated to Memphis where he worked atChips Moman's American Studios. He played guitar on recordings byJoe Texand theBox Tops. Wom-ack played guitar on several ofAretha Franklin's albums, includingLady Soul, but not on the hit song "Chain of Fools", as erroneously reported. His work as a songwriter caught the eye of music executives afterWilson Pickett took a liking to some of Womack’s songs and insisted on recording them. Among the songs were “I'm a Midnight Mover” and "I'm in Love".

In 1968, he signed withMinit Recordsand recorded his first solo album, Fly Me to the Moon, where he scored his first major hit with a cover of The Mamas & The Pa-pas' "California Dreamin'". In 1969, Womack forged a partnership with Gábor Szabóand with Szabó, penned the instrumental "Breezin'", later a hit forGeorge Ben-son. Womack also worked with rock musiciansSly and the Family StoneandJanis Joplin, contributing vocals and guitar work on The Family Stone’s accomplished album There’s a Riot Goin' On, and penning the ballad “Trust Me”, for Joplin on her albumPearl.

After two more albums with Minit, Bobby switched labels, signing with United Artists where he changed his attire and his musical direction with the album Communication. The album bolstered his first top 40 hit, "That’s the Way I Feel About Cha", which peaked at num-ber two R&B and numnum-ber twenty-seven on theBillboard Hot 100in the spring of 1972.

1.3

1972–1985: Solo success

Following Communication, Womack’s profile was raised with two more albums, released in 1972. The first was Understanding, noted for the track "I Can Understand It", later covered by the funk bandNew Birthand a three-sibling lineup of Bobby’s old group, The Valentinos, and two hit singles, "Woman’s Gotta Have It" and "Harry Hip-pie". The latter song was written for Womack by Jim Ford in acountryversion, which Womack re-arranged in an R&B version. “Harry Hippie” later became Womack’s first single to be certified gold.[11] _{Contrary to popular}

belief, the song was not about Womack’s brotherHarry. “Woman’s Gotta Have It” became Womack’s first single to hit number one on the R&B charts.

Another hit album released after Understanding was the soundtrack to theBlaxploitationfilmAcross 110th Street. Thetitle trackbecame popular during its initial 1972 re-lease and later would be played during the opening and closing scenes of the 1997 film,Jackie Brown. In 1973, Womack released another hit album,Facts of Life, and had a top 40 hit with “Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out”, an older song Sam Cooke had done years before.

In 1974, Womack released his most successful single

during this period with a remake of his first hit single, "Lookin' for a Love". His solo version of the song be-came even more successful than the original with The Valentinos’, becoming his second number one hit on the R&B chart and peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his only hit to reach that high on the pop chart. The song was featured on the album Lookin' for a Love Againand featured the minor charted “You're Welcome, Stop on By”, later covered byRufus & Chaka Khan. Womack’s career began stalling after Womack received the news of his brother Harry’s death. Womack continued to record albums with United Artists through 1975 and 1976 but with less success than previ-ous albums. In 1975, Womack collaborated withRolling StonesmemberRonnie Wood, on Wood’s second solo al-bum,Now Look.

Womack languished with his own recordings during the late 1970s but continued to be a frequent collaborator with other artists, most notably Wilton Felder of The Crusaders. In 1980, Wilton Felder released on MCA Records, the album Inherit The Wind, featuring Bobby Womack, that became a Jazz-Funk classic (notably in the UK – Robbie Vincent at Radio London included the track as one of his all-time winners in October 1982). In 1981, Womack signed with Beverly Glen Records and had his first R&B top 10 single in five years - since the 1976 sin-gle "Daylight" - with "If You Think You're Lonely Now" that peaked at number three on the R&B singles chart. His accompanying albumThe Poetreached number one on the R&B album charts and is now seen as the high point of his long career, bringing him wider acclaim not only in the U.S. but also in Europe. He had two more R&B top 10 singles during the 1980s including thePatti LaBelleduet, "Love Has Finally Come at Last", and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much". He had a hit featur-ing on the Wilton Felder sfeatur-ingle "(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up to You”.

Womack duets with Van Morrison on “Some Peace of Mind”, from Morrison’s 1991 album, “Hymns to the Si-lence”, on Morrison’s album “Duets: Re-working the Catalogue” released in 2015.

1.4 1985–2014: Later career

Womack’s solo career started to slow down, however, af-ter 1985, partially due to Womack’s issues with drug ad-diction. After sobering up in the mid-1990s, he released the album Resurrection and continued his performing ca-reer.

In 1989, Womack sang on Todd Rundgren’s “For the Want of a Nail” on the albumNearly Human. In 1998, he performedGeorge Gershwin's “Summertime” with The Roots for the Red Hot Organization's compilation al-bumRed Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute toGeorge Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to in-creasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.

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In 2010, Womack contributed lyrics and sang on "Stylo" alongsideMos Def, the first single from the thirdGorillaz albumPlastic Beach. Womack was told to sing whatever was on his mind during the recording of “Stylo”. “I was in there for an hour going crazy about love and politics, get-ting it off my chest”, said Womack.[12]_{He also provided}

vocals on the song “Cloud of Unknowing” in addition to the song “Bobby in Phoenix” on their December 2010 release "The Fall".

A new album was released on June 12, 2012 by XL Recordingsof London. The album,The Bravest Man in the Universewas produced byDamon AlbarnandRichard Russell. The first Song “Please Forgive My Heart” was offered as a free download on XL Recordings’ official website on March 8, 2012.[13] _{Contact Musicreported}

that Womack was working on a blues album called

Liv-ing in the House of Blues, featurLiv-ing collaborations with Stevie Wonder,Snoop DoggandRod Stewart.[14] _{In an}

interview with Uncut, Womack revealed that the followup album would now be called The Best Is Yet To Come and featureTeena MarieandRonnie Isley.[15]

Womack duets with Van Morrison on “Some Peace of Mind”, from Morrison’s 1991 album, “Hymns to the Si-lence”, on Morrison’s album “Duets: Re-working the Catalogue” released in 2015. Womack collaborated with Rudimentalon “New Day”, a song taken from their sec-ond studio album,We the Generation.[16]_{He'd expressed}

an interest in working with the group and they'd ex-changed ideas.[17] _{Following his death, Womack’s wife}

sent the group ana cappellavocal which he had recorded for them and they pieced together the track.[18]

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Legacy

Jodeci's K-Ci Hailey, a notable admirer of Womack’s work, covered “If You Think You're Lonely Now” in 1994. Hailey again covered Womack in 2006 with his rendition of “A Woman’s Gotta Have It”. The song is ref-erenced inMariah Carey's song "We Belong Together", a number one hit in June 2005. Carey sings “I can't sleep at night / When you are on my mind / Bobby Womack’s on the radio / Singing to me: 'If you think you're lonely now.'" In 2007, R&B singerJaheiminterpolated the song as “Lonely” on his album “The Making of a Man”. Neo Soul Singer, Calvin Richardson also covered many of Womack’s tunes. “That’s The Way I Feel About Cha” was covered by the late R&B musicianGerald Levertand fel-low singerMary J. Bligeon Levert’s 1998 albumLove & Consequences.

Film director Quentin Tarantino used "Across 110th Street" (which, in a different version, had been the ti-tle song ofthe 1972 movie) in the opening and closing sequences of his 1997 filmJackie Brown. His work has been used in several other popular films, includingMeet the Parents (2000), Ali(2001) and American Gangster

(2007). A 2003 Saab commercial used Womack’s in-terpretation of “California Dreamin'". In 2005, “Across 110th Street” appeared in the hitActivisionvideo game True Crime: New York City.

On the 1994 release 1-800-NEW-FUNK, Nona Gaye covered "Woman’s Gotta Have It,” produced byPrince and backed by his band,New Power Generation. During the spring of 1997, R&B singerRomecovered the original song from his self-titled debut album. In 2008,Kelly RowlandofDestiny’s Childrecorded her own version of his R&B hit "Daylight" withTravis Mc-Coyof theGym Class Heroes, which became a hit in the UK Singles Chart, where it was previously released as a single by Womack in 1976.

In 2009,Calvin Richardsonwas chosen to record atribute albumto Womack to coincide with Womack’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Grammy-nominated album was entitled Facts of Life: The Soul of Bobby Womack. It reached No. 30 on theUS R&B chart.[19]

In early 2012, Womack’s career was the subject of the documentary showUnsungonTV One.[20]

3 Personal life

3.1 Family life

In March 1965, just three months after Sam Cooke's death, 21-year-old Womack married Cooke’s widow, Barbara Campbell, ten years his senior.[4][10] _The

mar-riage was considered a scandal by some in the music busi-ness, and Womack found himself ostracized in the soul-music world.[4][9]_{Womack fell out with his brothers, was}

booed at concerts, and was severely beaten up by Bar-bara’s brother.[10] _{Womack claimed he initially went to}

Barbara’s side to console her following Cooke’s death for fear that, if she were left alone, she would “do something crazy.”[21]

In 1970, Bobby and Barbara divorced after she found out that he had an affair with his 18-year-old stepdaughter Linda,[10]_{daughter of Sam Cooke and Barbara.}[22]_{In the}

ensuing tussle, Barbara fired a gun at her husband.[4]

Vin-cent Womack, his son with Barbara, committed suicide in 1986, at age 21.[4]

In 1974, Harry, Bobby’s brother, was fatally stabbed in the neck with a steak knife by his jealous girlfriend.[4][23]

Womack’s second marriage (1976)[10] _{was to Regina}

Banks with whom he had two sons, Truth Bobby and Bobby Truth, and a daughter, Gina. In 1978, Truth Bobby died aged four months old, and Womack turned again to cocaine.[10]_{The marriage also ended in divorce.}

From his relationship with Jody Laba he fathered two sons, Cory and Jordan.[10]

Linda, Sam Cooke and Barbara Campbell’s daughter, later marriedCecil, Bobby’s younger brother. Bobby and Linda collaborated on the hit song "Woman’s Gotta Have It" and he applied background vocals for Cecil and Linda as the pair teamed up asWomack & Womack. The song “Baby I'm Scared of You” by Womack & Womack, from their album Love Wars, was released as a single in the US and UK in 1983.

3.2

Drug addiction and health issues

us-ingcocainesometime in the late 1960s. He had become close friends with Sly Stone, and was an enthusiastic par-ticipant in Stone’s infamous drug binges.[23]_{Womack told}

Rolling Stonein 1984:

“I was really off into the drugs. Blowing as much coke as I could blow. And drinking. And smoking weed and taking pills. Doing that all day, staying up seven, eight days. Me and Sly [Stone] were running partners.”[4]

His cocaine use turned into an addiction by the late 1970s. Womack partially blamed his habit for his son Truth’s death. Throughout most of the 1980s, Womack strug-gled with drug addiction. In the early 1980s his career slowed down partially due to his drug usage.[9]_{At the end}

of the 1980s, he went into a rehabilitation center to get over his cocaine addiction,[4]_{which he said he conquered.}

Womack survived prostate cancer. A series of health problems would follow, including diabetes, pneumonia, colon cancer and the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Womack developeddiabetesin his later years. It was re-vealed in March that Womack was diagnosed withcolon cancerafterBootsy Collinsreported it on his Facebook page. Womack announced afterwards that he was to undergo cancer surgery. On May 24, 2012, it was an-nounced that Womack’s surgery to remove a tumor from his colon was successful and he was declared cancer free. On January 1, 2013, Womack admitted that he struggled to remember his songs and other people’s names, and later he was diagnosed with early stages ofAlzheimer’s disease.[25]

3.3

Death

Womack died at his home in Tarzana, California at the age of 70 on June 27, 2014.[7]_{He was cremated, and his}

ashes were interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, in The Great Mau-soleum, Memorial Terrace, Memorial Terrace Colum-barium, Map #ELVA0 (Elevation A), Niche 38260 in an unmarked niche.[26]

4 Discography

Main article:Bobby Womack discography

• Fly Me to the Moon(1969)

• My Prescription(1970)

• Communication(1971)

• Understanding(1972)

• Facts of Life(1973)

• Lookin' for a Love Again(1974)

• I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To(1975)

• Safety Zone(1975)

• BW Goes C&W(1976)

• Home Is Where the Heart Is(1976)

• Pieces(1978)

• Roads of Life(1979)

• The Poet(1981)

• The Poet II(1984)

• So Many Rivers(1985)

• Someday We'll All Be Free(1985)

• Womagic(1986)

• The Last Soul Man(1987)

• Save the Children(1989)

• Resurrection(1994)

• Back to My Roots(1999)

• Traditions(1999)

• The Bravest Man in the Universe(2012)

5 Awards and nominations

• Grammy Awards

• 2011, Best Short-Form Music Video: “Stylo”

shared w/Mos Def&Gorillaz(Nominated)

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock

and Roll Hall of Fame. However, his orig-inal vocal group, his brothers, The Valenti-nos(Friendly Womack, Jr., Curtis Womack, Harry Womack and Cecil Womack), wasn't inducted with him.

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[2] “Bobby Womack”.Front Row. December 26, 2012.BBC Radio 4. Retrieved January 18, 2014.

[3] “The Valentino’s Page”. Soulwalking.co.uk. Retrieved April 11, 2012.

[4] Edwards, Gavin (June 28, 2014). “Bobby Womack (1944-2014)".Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[5] Parkes, Jack (June 29, 2014).“Bobby Womack: The sad death of a soul survivor”. The Independent. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[6] Yan, Holly (June 28, 2014). “Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bobby Womack dies”. CNN. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[7] Vitello, Paul (June 27, 2014). “Bobby Womack, Royalty of the Soul Era, Dies at 70”.The New York Times.

[8] “About 1:15–2:32 into the video”. Youtube.com. Re-trieved 2014-04-24.

[9] Martens, Todd (June 27, 2014). “Bobby Womack dies at 70; soul singer and song writer”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[10] Lewis, John (June 28, 2014).“Bobby Womack obituary”.

The Guardian. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[11] Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 322–323.

ISBN 0-214-20512-6.

[12] Davis, Johnny (March 2010). “Yo Ho Ho”.Q(Bauer Me-dia Group) (284): 44–52.

[13] “Bobby Womack teams up with Damon Albarn for

new album " Consequence of Sound”. Consequenceof-sound.net. March 8, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012. [14] “Bobby Womack – Bobby Womack Thanks Gorillaz For

Inspiring Comeback”. Contact Music. August 26, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2012.

[15] Spencer, Neil (April 2012). “Same attitude, different times”.Uncut: 7–8. [16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/ bobby-womack-to-feature-on-rudimental-lp/2015/05/ 19/b0e6f82e-fe3e-11e4-8c77-bf274685e1df_story. html [17] http://www.nme.com/nme-video/ rudimental-one-of-bobby-womack-s-last-wishes-was-t/ 4323387910001 [18] http://www.independent.co.uk/ arts-entertainment/music/features/ rudimental-on-we-the-generation-bobby-womack-and-bringing-east-london-to-america-and-austrlia-a6675506. html

[19] “Facts of Life: The Soul of Bobby Womack – Calvin Richardson”. billboard.com. Retrieved September 27, 2011.

[20] “Bobby Womack on TV One’s Unsung”. Soultracks.com. Retrieved 2014-04-24.

[21] Jason Newman.“Bobby Womack Dead: Soul Singer Dies at 70 | Music News”. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2014-06-28.

[22] “Bobby Womack Exposed”. Hollywoodstreetking.com.

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[23] “Bobby Womack - obituary”.The Telegraph. January 29, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[24] Womack, Bobby; Ashton, Robert (2006).Bobby Womack – Midnight Mover. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1844541485.

[25] Losh, Jack (January 1, 2012). “Bobby Womack Alzheimer’s torment”. The Sun. Retrieved January 2, 2012.

[26] “Bobby Womack (1944 - 2014) - Find A Grave Memo-rial”. www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2015-12-24.

7 External links

• Bobby Womackat theRock and Roll Hall of Fame • Bobby WomackatAllMusic

• Bobby Womackat theInternet Movie Database • Bobby Womack interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues &

Soul' August 1994 (republished June 2008) • Soul Patrol Biography

• Soulwalking website

• Bobby Womack Interview 2011 • Wax Poetics Interview

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