SAT-UR-Day June 28th...and we have lost another Legendary MUSIC person...Just got in from my 2 mile brisk walk and wondered why I was seeing MUSIC friends putting up POSTS of BOBBY WOMACK songs...Checked the NEWS & now I know...Robert Dwayne Bobby Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) left this LIFE yesterday...BOBBY was an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s, when he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cookes backing guitarist, Womacks career spanned more than 50 years and spanned a repertoire in the styles of R&B, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, gospel, and country...Womack wrote and originally recorded The Rolling Stones first UK No. 1 hit, Its All Over Now and New Births I Can Understand It among other songs. As a singer he is most notable for the hits Lookin For a Love, Thats The Way I Feel About Cha, Womans Gotta Have It, Harry Hippie, Across 110th Street and his 1980s hit If You Think Youre Lonely Now...In 2009, Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...My overall favorite song of BOBBY WOMACK was HARRY HIPPIE (FOLLOW this LINK to the song HARRY HIPPIE:youtube/watch?v=aMdfpqFhVng)...For more about BOBBY, follow the LINK below to NEWS from the pages of ROLLING STONE... rollingstone/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 21:29:30 +0000
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