Robert Dwayne Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, jazz, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel.
Womack was a prolific songwriter who wrote and originally recorded, (with his brothers, the Valentinos), the Rolling Stones' first UK number one hit ("It's All Over Now") and New Birth's "I Can Understand It". 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 hits "If You Think You're Lonely Now" and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much".
In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Links to Peel[]
Peel played some of Bobby Womack's material on his programmes. On his 30th April 1979, he played his track, 'The Roads Of Life', which after the song admitted that it was boring and didn't know why he played it. He also played Womack's cover of Living In A Box's, self titled song in 1987, which failed to reach the UK top 40 singles chart, only peaking at number 70.
Shows Played[]
- 07 April 1975: Somebody Special
- 12 June 1975: (If You Want My Love) Put Something Down On It (LP - I Don't Know What The World Is Coming To) United Artists
- 1976
- 09 March 1976: Everything's Gonna Be Alright (LP - Safety Zone) United Artists
- 1979
- 30 April 1979: The Roads Of Life (LP – Roads Of Life) Arista (JP: 'Actually, that's a bit boring. I'm not sure why I played that. It's funny, you get that sort of thing happening, you know. You listen to these records at home and you think, "Hey, that sounds pretty tough and up to date. I think those kids out there are gonna just love it." And you play it on the radio and think, what did I play that for?...Make up your own mind.')
- 1985
- J Peel 80s Mixtape 1: I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much
- 1987
- 02 November 1987: Living In A Box