Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne “Bobby”Womack (/ˈwoʊmæk/; March4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, and producer. Since the early1960s, when he started his career as the lead singer of hisfamily musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke'sbacking guitarist, Womack’s career spanned more than50 years, during which he played in the styles of R&B,soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country.Womack wrote and originally recorded the RollingStones' first UK No. 1 hit, "It’s All Over Now" and NewBirth's "I Can Understand It" among other songs. Asa singer he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' For aLove", "That’s The Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman’sGotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street",and his 1980s hit "If You Think You're Lonely Now".

1 Biography

1.1 1944–1966: Early life and career: TheValentinos

Main article: The Valentinos

Born in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood, near East85th Street and Quincy Avenue, to Naomi Womack andFriendlyWomack, Bobbywas the third of five brothers.[3]Friendly Jr. and Curtis were the older brothers, Cecil andHarry were his younger brothers. They all grew up in theCleveland slums, so poor that the family would fish pigsnouts out of the local supermarket’s trash. He had toshare a bed with his brothers.[4] His mother told him hecould “sing his way out of the ghetto”.[5] Bobby recalls:

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

And:

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

Raised Baptist, their mother played the organ for thechurch choir, and their father was a steelworker,[7] part-time minister, musician who played the guitar and alsosang 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 a shoelace,[8] helet 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 Bobbyhis own guitar.Bobby’s career started before he was 10,[6] when he be-gan touring with his four brothers, Curtis, Harry, Ceciland Friendly, Jr., on the midwest gospel circuit in themid-1950s, initially as The Womack Brothers.[9] Thegospel group toured along with their parents accompany-ing them on organ and guitar. In 1954, under the monikerCurtis Womack and the Womack Brothers, the groupissued the Pennant single, “Buffalo Bill”.[3] More recordsfollowed.[9]

Sam Cooke, the lead singer of The Soul Stirrers, first sawthe group performing in the mid-1950s. He became theirmentor and helped them go on tour. They went on na-tional tours with The Staple Singers.[4] Even though Cur-tisWomack often sang lead, BobbyWomack was allowedto sing alongside him showcasing his gruff baritone vocalsin contrast to his older brother’s smoother tenor. Duringperformances, Bobby would sometimes imitate the roleof a preacher, which later became his nickname.[7] At just16, Bobby dropped out of high school.[9]

At the beginning of the 1960s, Cooke formed SARRecords 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, relocatedthem to Los Angeles and convinced them to transitionfrom gospel music to secular soul- and pop-influencedsound.[4] Cooke produced and arranged the group’s firsthit 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&Bhit and helped land the group an opening spot for JamesBrown's tour. The group’s next hit came in 1964 withthe country-tinged "It’s All Over Now", co-composed byBobby. Their version was rising on the charts when TheRolling Stones covered it.Womackwas also amember of Cooke’s band, touring andrecording with him from 1961.[10] The Valentinos’ careerwas left shaky after Sam Cooke was shot and killed in aLos Angeles motel. Devastated by the news, the brothersdisbanded and SAR Records folded. Womack continuedto work as a session musician. Between 1965 and 1968he toured and recorded with Ray Charles.[10]

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2 1 BIOGRAPHY

1.2 1967–1972: Early solo career

Circa 1965, Womack relocated to Memphis where heworked at Chips Moman's American Studios. He playedguitar on recordings by Joe Tex and the Box Tops. Wom-ack played guitar on several of Aretha Franklin's albums,including Lady Soul, but not on the hit song "Chain ofFools", as erroneously reported. His work as a songwritercaught the eye of music executives after Wilson Picketttook a liking to some of Womack’s songs and insisted onrecording them. Among the songs were “I'm a MidnightMover” and "I'm in Love".In 1968, he signed with Minit Records and recorded hisfirst solo album, Fly Me to the Moon, where he scored hisfirst major hit with a cover of The Mamas & The Pa-pas' "California Dreamin'". In 1969, Womack forged apartnership with Gábor Szabó and with Szabó, pennedthe instrumental "Breezin'", later a hit for George Ben-son. Womack also worked with rock musicians Sly andthe Family Stone and Janis Joplin, contributing vocals andguitar work on The Family Stone’s accomplished albumThere’s a Riot Goin' On, and penning the ballad “TrustMe”, for Joplin on her album Pearl.After two more albums with Minit, Bobby switchedlabels, signing with United Artists where he changedhis attire and his musical direction with the albumCommunication. The album bolstered his first top 40 hit,"That’s theWay I Feel About Cha", which peaked at num-ber two R&B and number twenty-seven on the BillboardHot 100 in the spring of 1972.

1.3 1972–1985: Solo success

Following Communication, Womack’s profile was raisedwith two more albums, released in 1972. The first wasUnderstanding, noted for the track "I Can Understand It",later covered by the funk band New Birth and a three-sibling lineup of Bobby’s old group, The Valentinos, andtwo hit singles, "Woman’s Gotta Have It" and "Harry Hip-pie". The latter song was written for Womack by JimFord in a country version, which Womack re-arranged inan R&B version. “Harry Hippie” later becameWomack’sfirst single to be certified gold.[11] Contrary to popularbelief, the song was not about Womack’s brother Harry.“Woman’s Gotta Have It” became Womack’s first singleto hit number one on the R&B charts.Another hit album released after Understanding was thesoundtrack to the Blaxploitation film Across 110th Street.The title track became popular during its initial 1972 re-lease and later would be played during the opening andclosing scenes of the 1997 film, Jackie Brown. In 1973,Womack released another hit album, Facts of Life, andhad a top 40 hit with “Nobody Knows You When You'reDown and Out”, an older song SamCooke had done yearsbefore.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 TheValentinos’, becoming his second number one hit on theR&B chart and peaking at number ten on the BillboardHot 100, becoming his only hit to reach that high onthe pop chart. The song was featured on the albumLookin' for a Love Again and featured the minor charted“You're Welcome, Stop on By”, later covered by Rufus& Chaka Khan. Womack’s career began stalling afterWomack received the news of his brother Harry’s death.Womack continued to record albums with United Artiststhrough 1975 and 1976 but with less success than previ-ous albums. In 1975, Womack collaborated with RollingStones member Ronnie Wood, onWood’s second solo al-bum, Now Look.Womack languished with his own recordings during thelate 1970s but continued to be a frequent collaboratorwith other artists, most notably Wilton Felder of TheCrusaders. In 1980, Wilton Felder released on MCARecords, the album Inherit The Wind, featuring BobbyWomack, that became a Jazz-Funk classic (notably in theUK – Robbie Vincent at Radio London included the trackas one of his all-time winners in October 1982). In 1981,Womack signed with Beverly Glen Records and had hisfirst 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 album The Poet reached number oneon the R&B album charts and is now seen as the highpoint of his long career, bringing him wider acclaim notonly in the U.S. but also in Europe. He had two moreR&B top 10 singles during the 1980s including the PattiLaBelle duet, "Love Has Finally Come at Last", and "IWish He Didn't Trust Me So Much". He had a hit featur-ing on the Wilton Felder single "(No Matter How High IGet) I'll Still Be Looking Up to You”.Womack duets with Van Morrison on “Some Peace ofMind”, from Morrison’s 1991 album, “Hymns to the Si-lence”, on Morrison’s album “Duets: Re-working theCatalogue” 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 releasedthe album Resurrection and continued his performing ca-reer.In 1989, Womack sang on Todd Rundgren’s “For theWant of a Nail” on the albumNearly Human. In 1998, heperformed George Gershwin's “Summertime” with TheRoots for the Red Hot Organization's compilation al-bum Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George 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"alongside Mos Def, the first single from the third Gorillazalbum Plastic Beach. Womack was told to sing whateverwas on his mind during the recording of “Stylo”. “I was inthere for an hour going crazy about love and politics, get-ting it off my chest”, said Womack.[12] He also providedvocals on the song “Cloud of Unknowing” in addition tothe song “Bobby in Phoenix” on their December 2010release "The Fall".A new album was released on June 12, 2012 by XLRecordings of London. The album, The Bravest Man inthe Universewas produced byDamonAlbarn and RichardRussell. The first Song “Please Forgive My Heart” wasoffered as a free download on XL Recordings’ officialwebsite on March 8, 2012.[13] Contact Music reportedthat Womack was working on a blues album called Liv-ing in the House of Blues, featuring collaborations withStevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg and Rod Stewart.[14] In aninterview withUncut, Womack revealed that the followupalbum would now be called The Best Is Yet To Come andfeature Teena Marie and Ronnie Isley.[15]

Womack duets with Van Morrison on “Some Peace ofMind”, from Morrison’s 1991 album, “Hymns to the Si-lence”, on Morrison’s album “Duets: Re-working theCatalogue” released in 2015. Womack collaborated withRudimental on “New Day”, a song taken from their sec-ond studio album,We the Generation.[16] He'd expressedan interest in working with the group and they'd ex-changed ideas.[17] Following his death, Womack’s wifesent the group an a cappella vocal which he had recordedfor them and they pieced together the track.[18]

2 Legacy

Jodeci's K-Ci Hailey, a notable admirer of Womack’swork, covered “If You Think You're Lonely Now” in1994. Hailey again covered Womack in 2006 with hisrendition of “AWoman’s Gotta Have It”. The song is ref-erenced in Mariah Carey's song "We Belong Together",a number one hit in June 2005. Carey sings “I can't sleepat night / When you are on my mind / Bobby Womack’son the radio / Singing to me: 'If you think you're lonelynow.'" In 2007, R&B singer Jaheim interpolated the songas “Lonely” on his album “The Making of a Man”. NeoSoul Singer, Calvin Richardson also covered many ofWomack’s tunes. “That’s TheWay I Feel About Cha” wascovered by the late R&B musician Gerald Levert and fel-low singer Mary J. Blige on Levert’s 1998 album Love &Consequences.Film director Quentin Tarantino used "Across 110thStreet" (which, in a different version, had been the ti-tle song of the 1972 movie) in the opening and closingsequences of his 1997 film Jackie Brown. His work hasbeen used in several other popular films, including Meetthe Parents (2000), Ali (2001) and American Gangster

(2007). A 2003 Saab commercial used Womack’s in-terpretation of “California Dreamin'". In 2005, “Across110th Street” appeared in the hit Activision video gameTrue Crime: New York City.On the 1994 release 1-800-NEW-FUNK, Nona Gayecovered "Woman’s Gotta Have It,” produced by Princeand backed by his band, New Power Generation.During the spring of 1997, R&B singer Rome coveredthe original song from his self-titled debut album.In 2008, Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child recorded herown version of his R&B hit "Daylight" with Travis Mc-Coy of the Gym Class Heroes, which became a hit in theUK Singles Chart, where it was previously released as asingle by Womack in 1976.In 2009, Calvin Richardson was chosen to record a tributealbum to Womack to coincide with Womack’s inductioninto the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Grammy-nominated album was entitled Facts of Life: The Soulof Bobby Womack. It reached No. 30 on the US R&Bchart.[19]

In early 2012, Womack’s career was the subject of thedocumentary show Unsung on TV One.[20]

3 Personal life

3.1 Family life

In March 1965, just three months after Sam Cooke'sdeath, 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, wasbooed at concerts, and was severely beaten up by Bar-bara’s brother.[10] Womack claimed he initially went toBarbara’s side to console her following Cooke’s death forfear that, if she were left alone, she would “do somethingcrazy.”[21]

In 1970, Bobby and Barbara divorced after she found outthat he had an affair with his 18-year-old stepdaughterLinda,[10] daughter of Sam Cooke and Barbara.[22] In theensuing tussle, Barbara fired a gun at her husband.[4] Vin-cent Womack, his son with Barbara, committed suicidein 1986, at age 21.[4]

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

Womack’s second marriage (1976)[10] was to ReginaBanks with whom he had two sons, Truth Bobby andBobby Truth, and a daughter, Gina. In 1978, TruthBobby died aged four months old, and Womack turnedagain to cocaine.[10] The marriage also ended in divorce.From his relationship with Jody Laba he fathered twosons, Cory and Jordan.[10]

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

3.2 Drug addiction and health issues

Womack opened up about his frequent drug use in hismemoirs,Midnight Mover.[24] Womack said he began us-ing cocaine sometime in the late 1960s. He had becomeclose friends with Sly Stone, and was an enthusiastic par-ticipant in Stone’s infamous drug binges.[23]Womack toldRolling Stone in 1984:

“I was really off into the drugs. Blowing asmuch coke as I could blow. And drinking. Andsmoking weed and taking pills. Doing that allday, 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’sdeath. Throughout most of the 1980s, Womack strug-gled with drug addiction. In the early 1980s his careerslowed down partially due to his drug usage.[9] At the endof the 1980s, he went into a rehabilitation center to getover his cocaine addiction,[4] which he said he conquered.Womack survived prostate cancer. A series of healthproblems would follow, including diabetes, pneumonia,colon cancer and the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.Womack developed diabetes in his later years. It was re-vealed in March that Womack was diagnosed with coloncancer after Bootsy Collins reported it on his Facebookpage. Womack announced afterwards that he was toundergo cancer surgery. On May 24, 2012, it was an-nounced that Womack’s surgery to remove a tumor fromhis colon was successful and he was declared cancer free.On January 1, 2013, Womack admitted that he struggledto remember his songs and other people’s names, andlater he was diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer’sdisease.[25]

3.3 Death

Womack died at his home in Tarzana, California at theage of 70 on June 27, 2014.[7] He was cremated, and hisashes were interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial ParkCemetery in Glendale, California, in The Great Mau-soleum, Memorial Terrace, Memorial Terrace Colum-barium, Map #ELVA0 (Elevation A), Niche 38260 in anunmarked 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 Rockand 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'tinducted with him.

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

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

[7] Vitello, Paul (June 27, 2014). “Bobby Womack, Royaltyof 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 diesat 70; soul singer and song writer”. Los Angeles Times.Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[10] Lewis, John (June 28, 2014). “BobbyWomack obituary”.The Guardian. Retrieved April 24, 2015.

[11] Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nded.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 322–323.ISBN 0-214-20512-6.

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[13] “Bobby Womack teams up with Damon Albarn fornew album " Consequence of Sound”. Consequenceof-sound.net. March 8, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.

[14] “Bobby Womack – Bobby Womack Thanks Gorillaz ForInspiring Comeback”. Contact Music. August 26, 2011.Retrieved December 25, 2012.

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

7 External links• Bobby Womack at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

• Bobby Womack at AllMusic

• Bobby Womack at the Internet 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

• Bobby Womack at Find a Grave

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