Robert Dwayne Womack was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
67 Facts About Bobby Womack
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In 2009, Bobby Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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One night, eight-year-old Bobby Womack broke a guitar string, then tried to replace the string with a shoelace.
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Bobby Womack couldn't believe how good I had got and he'd been real selfish holding on to that guitar for himself.
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Bobby Womack became their mentor and helped them go on tour.
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Bobby Womack was a member of Cooke's band, touring and recording with him from 1961.
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Bobby Womack attempted to start his solo career in 1965, first recording for Him Records and later the Chess Records subsidiary, Checker Records.
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Bobby Womack faced backlash after his marriage to Cooke's widow Barbara Cooke.
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Bobby Womack would go to radio stations and disc jockeys would throw away his records.
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Circa 1965, Bobby Womack relocated to Memphis where he worked at Chips Moman's American Studios.
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Bobby Womack played guitar on recordings by Joe Tex and the Box Tops.
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Bobby Womack played guitar on several of Aretha Franklin's albums, including Lady Soul, but not on the hit song "Chain of Fools", as erroneously reported.
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In 1968, Bobby Womack signed with Minit Records and recorded his first solo album, Fly Me to the Moon, where he scored his first major hit with a cover of Barry McGuire' "California Dreamin'".
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In 1969, Bobby Womack forged a partnership with Gabor Szabo and with Szabo, penned the instrumental "Breezin'", later a hit for George Benson.
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Bobby Womack worked with rock musicians Sly and the Family Stone and Janis 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 album Pearl.
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Bobby Womack was one of the last people to see Joplin alive, having visited her hours before she died at the Landmark Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
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In 1973, Bobby 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.
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In 1974, Bobby Womack released his most successful single during this period with a remake of his first hit single, "Lookin' for a Love".
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Bobby Womack's career began stalling after Bobby Womack received the news of his brother Harry's death.
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Bobby Womack continued to record albums with United Artists through 1975 and 1976 but with less success than previous albums.
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In 1975, Bobby Womack collaborated with Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood, on Wood's second solo album, Now Look.
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In 1976, Bobby Womack organized a benefit at the Hollywood Palladium to raise funds for his friend, singer Jackie Wilson, who had suffered a heart attack.
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Bobby 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.
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Bobby Womack hired a new co-producer and Keyboardist, Patrick Moten who worked with Ike Turner and Natalie Cole, and released the album Roads of Life on Arista Records in 1979.
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Bobby Womack had a soulful song featuring on the Wilton Felder single " I'll Still Be Looking Up to You", which was originally recorded in 1979 as a bonus track for the same 1980 album although it was officially released in 1985.
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In 1986, Bobby Womack recorded soul song "Living in a Box" with new group Living in a Box.
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Bobby Womack's remaining brothers from the Valentinos, Curtis, Friendly and Cecil, featured as background singers.
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Judges sitting in the high court in London in 2003 ruled that Bobby Womack stole the song "Cry Myself to Sleep" which appeared on the album from Liverpool musician and songwriter Mark Thomas, who never received the outstanding royalty payments due to him.
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In 1989, Bobby Womack sang on Todd Rundgren's "For the Want of a Nail" on the album Nearly Human.
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In October 1992, Bobby Womack held four tribute concert for his friend Eddie Kendricks.
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Bobby Womack planned the concert before Kendricks, who suffered from lung cancer, died on October 5,1992.
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Bobby Womack headlined the concert; other performers included Chaka Khan, Mary Wilson, and Bill Withers.
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In 2010, Bobby Womack contributed lyrics and sang on "Stylo" alongside Mos Def, the first single from the third Gorillaz album Plastic Beach.
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Bobby Womack was told to sing whatever was on his mind during the recording of "Stylo".
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Bobby Womack provided vocals on the song "Cloud of Unknowing" in addition to the song "Bobby in Phoenix" on their December 2010 release The Fall.
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Contact Music reported that Bobby Womack was working on a blues album called Living in the House of Blues, featuring collaborations with Stevie Wonder, Snoop Dogg, and Rod Stewart.
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Bobby Womack sang a duet with Van Morrison titled "Some Peace of Mind" on Morrison's 2015 album Duets: Re-working the Catalogue.
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Bobby Womack collaborated with Rudimental on "New Day", a song taken from their second studio album, We the Generation.
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Bobby Womack had expressed an interest in working with the group, and they had exchanged ideas.
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Whilst his songs are famous, Bobby Womack is not one of the most famous soul singers.
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Jodeci's K-Ci Hailey, a notable admirer of Bobby Womack's work, covered "If You Think You're Lonely Now" in 1994.
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Bobby Womack's work has been used in several other popular films, including Meet the Parents, Ali and American Gangster.
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In 2009, Calvin Richardson was chosen to record a tribute album to Bobby Womack to coincide with Bobby Womack's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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In early 2012, Bobby Womack's career was the subject of the documentary show Unsung on TV One.
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Bobby Womack wore one of Cooke's suits to the courthouse and the media was present to record the event, but their application was rejected.
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Bobby Womack's brothers turned against him, as did his audiences and disc jockeys.
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Bobby Womack married his second wife Evelyn Evans when he was 29.
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On December 31,1975, Bobby Womack married his third wife, 19-year-old Regina Banks.
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Bobby Womack had six children, with two passing away before him.
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Bobby Womack's firstborn from his marriage to Barbara, Vincent Dwayne Bobby Womack, was born in 1966.
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Bobby Womack committed suicide at the age of 21 by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
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Bobby Womack had a son, Vincent Lance Cooke, who drowned in the family pool aged 18 months.
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Bobby Womack Truth got involved with gangs and was sent to a youth detention center at about 11 or 12 years old.
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Bobby Womack fathered two sons, Cory and Jordan, from his relationship with Jody Laba.
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In 1974, Bobby's brother Harry Womack was fatally stabbed in the neck with a steak knife, by his girlfriend Patricia Wilson, in a jealous rage.
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Bobby Womack had found another woman's clothes in a room he was occupying at Bobby's house.
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Bobby Womack opened up about his frequent drug use in his memoir, Midnight Mover.
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Bobby Womack said he began using cocaine sometime in the late 1960s.
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Bobby Womack had become close friends with Sly Stone, and was an enthusiastic participant in Stone's infamous drug binges.
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In 1974, Bobby Womack experienced "temporary blindness" after he suffered a concussion from a blow to his head when he flipped backwards over an amplifier during a recording session.
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Bobby Womack partially attributed his drug addiction to his infant son Truth's death in 1978, which he said changed him forever.
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In 1985, after completing 14 one-nighters, Bobby Womack was hospitalized after experiencing a blood circulation problem in his left leg.
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Bobby Womack announced afterwards that he was to undergo cancer surgery.
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On January 1,2013, Bobby Womack admitted that he struggled to remember his songs and other people's names, and later he was diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer's disease.
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Bobby Womack died at his home in Tarzana, California at the age of 70 on June 27,2014.
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Bobby Womack was cremated, and his ashes were inurned at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, in The Great Mausoleum, Memorial Terrace, Memorial Terrace Columbarium.
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In 2009, Bobby Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.