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WOMACK Bobby
(voc)

Born:	04.03.1944	(Cleveland, Ohio, USA, as Robert Dwayne Womack)
Died:	27.06.2014	(colon cancer)

WOMACK Bobby (photo)

1959-61	Womack Brothers
1961-64	The Valentinos

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Fly Me To The Moon	8/1968	Minit
2.	My Prescription	2/1970
3.	The Womack Live	4/1971	Liberty
4.	Communication	15.09.1971	United Artists			83
5.	Understanding	30.05.1972	United Artists			43
6.	Across 110th Street	1/1973	United Artists			50
7.	Live	1973
8.	Facts Of Life	08.06.1973	United Artists			37
9.	Lookin' For A Love Again	11.01.1974	United Artists			85
10.	Greatest Hits	12/1974	United Artists
11.	I Can Understand It	1/1975	United Artists
12.	I Don't Know What The World Is Coming To	28.03.1975	United Artists
13.	Safety Zone	27.10.1975	United Artists
14.	B.W. Goes C&W (in the UK 20.8.1976)	4/1976	United Artists
15.	Home Is Where The Heart Is & Brotherhood, v GB 14.1.77	9/1976	Columbia
16.	Pieces	10.03.1978	Columbia
17.	Roads Of Life	5/1979	Arista
18.	A Portrait Of Bobby Womack	7/1979	United Artists
19.	The Poet	1/1982	Beverly Glen			29
20.	The Poet II.	3/1984	Beverly Glen		31	60
21.	Somebody Special	9/1984	Liberty
22.	So Many Rivers	8/1985	MCA		28	66
23.	Check It Out	1986	Stateside
24.	Womagic	7/1986	MCA
25.	The Last Soul Man	11/1987	MCA
26.	Womack Winners - The Best Of Bobby Womack 1968-1975 (2LP)	2/1989	Charly
27.	The Midnight Mover & Wilson Pickett	7/1989	Instant
28.	Womack In Memphis (2LP)	9/1989	Charly
29.	Soul Seduction Supreme	1991
30.	The Very Best Of Bobby Womack	6/1991	Music Club
31.	Midnight Mover - The Bobby Womack Story (2CD)	3/1994	EMI
32.	The Collection	4/1994	Castle
33.	Resurrection	9/1994	Continuum
34.	I Feel A Groove Comin' On	4/1995	Charly
35.	The Soul Of Bobby Womack	03.02.1997	EMI
36.	Masters	16.02.1999
37.	Greatest Hits	05.10.1999	The Right Stuff
38.	Traditions	16.11.1999	The Right Stuff
39.	Soul Sensation Live	25.09.2001	Sanctuary
40.	Lookin' For A Love	01.04.2003	Simply The Best
41.	Rubare Alla Mafia E' Un Suicidio	09.09.2003	Dagored
42.	Anthology	29.09.2003	Capitol
43.	Preacher	27.07.2004
44.	Back to Back Hits & Al Green	31.08.2004	EMI
45.	Check It Out: The Very Best Of Bobby Womack	15.11.2004	Snapper
46.	Essential Bobby Womack	26.04.2005	Metro
47.	Definitive Collection	14.03.2006	Mastercuts
48.	Best of Bobby Womack	05.02.2008	Capitol
49.	Last Soul Man: Best of Bobby Womack	18.03.2008	Toshiba EMI
50.	The Best Of Bobby Womack: The Soul Years	26.05.2008	EMI
51.	Soul Sides (2CD)	06.02.2012	Metro Select
52.	The Bravest Man In The Universe produced by: Damon Albarn/Richard Russell	11.06.2012	XL		49	181
53.	Everything's Gonna Be Alright: The American Singles 1967-76 (2CD)	27.06.2013	Charly
54.	Icon	30.07.2013	Capitol
55.	It's Party Time: The 70s Collection	06.08.2013	Camden
56.	Untitled	21.01.2014	Universal

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Trust Me / Baby, I Can't Stand It	9/1967	Minit
2.	Broadway Walk / Somebody Special	2/1968	Minit
3.	What Is This / What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Has Gone)	4/1968	Minit
4.	Fly Me To The Moon / Take Me	8/1968	Minit		52
5.	California Dreamin' / Baby You Oughta Think It Over	11/1968	Minit		43
6.	I Left My Heart In San Francisco / Love, The Time Is Now	3/1969	Minit		119
7.	It's Gonna Rain / Thank You	7/1969	Minit
8.	How I Miss You Baby / Tired And Convicted	11/1969	Minit		93
9.	More Than I Can Stand / Arkansas State Prison	4/1970	Minit		90
10.	I'm Gonna Forget About You / Don't Look Back	6/1970	Liberty
11.	Something (live) / Everybody's Talkin' (live)	12/1970	Liberty
12.	That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha / Come L'Amore & Peace	12/1971	United Artists		27
13.	I Can Understand It	1972
14.	Woman's Gonna Have It / If You Don't Want My Love	5/1972	United Artists		60
15.	Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) / Harry Hippie & Peace	8/1972	United Artists		31
16.	Harry Hippie / I Can Understand It	12/1972	United Artists
17.	Across 110th Street / Hang On In There & Peace	1/1973	United Artists		56
18.	Nobody Wants You When You're Down And Out / I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love For You	6/1973	United Artists		29
19.	I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You	10/1973	United Artists
20.	Lookin' For A Love / Let It All Hang Out	1/1974	United Artists		10
21.	What Is This / I Wonder	2/1974	Jet Boy
22.	You've Welcome, Stop On By	6/1974	United Artists		59
23.	I Don't Know	10/1974
24.	Harry Hippie	12/1974	United Artists
25.	I Can Understand It / Harry Hippie	24.01.1975	United Artists
26.	Check It Out	4/1975	United Artists		91
27.	Where There's A Will There's A Way / Everything's Gonna Be Alright	12/1975	United Artists
28.	Daylight / Trust Me	26.03.1976	United Artists
29.	Home Is Where The Heart Is / We've Only Just Begun	10/1976	Columbia
30.	Wind It Up / Stop Before We Start	1978	Columbia
31.	I Can Understand It / Harry Hippie	12.01.1979	United Artists
32.	I Honestly Love You / How Could You Break My Heart	6/1979	Arista
33.	Roads Of Life / Give It Up	8/1979	Arista
34.	Inherit The Wind / Until The Morning Comes & Wilton Felder	17.10.1980	MCA	39
35.	If You Think You're Lonely Now / Secrets	1/1982	Beverly Glen		101
36.	Inherit The Wind / Someday We'll All Be Free & Wilton Felder	1982	MCA
37.	Secrets / Stand Up	2/1982	Beverly Glen
38.	So Many Sides Of You / Just My Imagination	16.07.1982	Motown
39.	Love Has Finally Come At Last / American Dream & Patti LaBelle	3/1984	Beverly Glen		88
40.	Tell Me Why / Through The Eyes Of A Child	6/1984	Beverly Glen	60
41.	Surprise Surprise / American Dream 12" + If You Think You're Lonely Now	14.09.1984	Beverly Glen
42.	It Takes A Lot Of Strength To Say Goodbye / Who's Foolin' Who & Patti LaBelle	9/1984	Beverly Glen
43.	(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Lookin' Up To You / La Luz & Wilton Felder	1/1985	MCA	63
44.	I Wish I Had Someone To Go Home To / Someday We'll All Be Free	1/1985	Beverly Glen
45.	Searching For My Love / I'm So Proud	3/1985	Beverly Glen
46.	I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much / Got To Be With You Tonight	9/1985	MCA	64
47.	Gypsy Woman / Whatever Happened To The Times	5/1986	MCA
48.	I Wanna Make Love To You / Whatever Happened To The Times	1/1987	MCA
49.	How Could You Break My Heart / Give It Up 12" + Mr. DJ Don't Stop The Music	6/1987	Arista	86
50.	So The Story Goes & Living In A Box	9/1987		34	81
51.	Living In A Box / Living In A Box (instrumental)	10/1987	MCA	70
52.	Save The Children	1989
53.	Lookin' For A Love / Harry Hippie / That's The Way I Feel About 'Cha / If You Don't Want My Love, Give It Back	1/1989	Charly
54.	Ain't Nothin' Like The Lovin' We Got & Shirley Brown	11/1989	Cooltempo
55.	I'm Back For More & Lulu	22.03.1993		27
56.	Forever Love / Colour Him Father	8/1994	Continuum
57.	It's A Man's Man's Man's World & Jeanie Tracy	17.04.1995	Pulse-8	73
58.	It's A Man's Man's Man's World & Jeanie Tracy	08.04.1996	Pulse-8
59.	Get A Life / Wake Up Everybody (Rae & Christian remix) & Rae & Christian	05.02.2001	Grand Central	76
60.	California Dreamin' / Lookin' For A Love / Holdin' Onto My Baby's Love	07.06.2004	EMI	59
61.	Home Is Where The Heart Is / So Many Sides Of You	05.11.2007	Beverly Glen
62.	Stylo & Mos Def & Gorillaz	26.01.2010	Virgin
63.	Home Is Where The Heart Is / Something For My Head	25.10.2011	Tick/Go Ahead
64.	How Could You Break My Heart? / Give It Up	14.12.2011	Tick/Go Ahead
65.	Love Is Gonna Lift You Up	23.08.2012	XL

2009 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
2012 Q Awards - Best Album ("Bravest Man In The Universe")

http://www.bobbywomack.com

appeared on the LP:

Los Lobos: The Ride (4.5.04, Hollywood)
Ron Wood: I Feel Like Playing (27.9.10)
Bootsy Collins: Tha Funk Capitol Of The World (26.4.11, Mascot)
Van Morrison: Duets: Re-Working The Catalogue (24.3.15, RCA)

Press References:

Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1974	25	22.06.1974	42	Albums	album review
1975	8	22.02.1975	46
1975	10	08.03.1975	40	Albums	album review
1975	19	10.05.1975	41		interview
1975	52	27.12.1975	10		interview
1976	8	21.02.1976	44	Soul Food	album review
1976	11	13.03.1976	21	Caught In The Act	gig review
1976	36	04.09.1976	22	Soul Albums	album review
1979	2	13.01.1979	20	Singles	single review
1979	20	26.05.1979	28	Albums	album review
1982	18	01.05.1982	20	Albums	album review
1982	29	17.07.1982	15	Singles Bar	single review
1984	17	28.04.1984	29	Albums	album review
1984	33	29.09.1984	19	It's Alive	gig review
1984	34	06.10.1984	40		interview
1995	16	22.04.1995	32		single review
New Musical Express
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1972	0	02.09.1972	14	From The Soul
1975	0	22.02.1975	24	Platters	album review
1975	0	08.03.1975	36
1975	0	26.07.1975	16	Platters	album review