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  1. Jan 24, 2024 · As a pre-teen touring with The Womack Brothers, Bobby Womack met Sam Cooke, becoming the mentee of the seasoned soul singer and entrepreneur. Cooke, impressed by the young artist’s talent...

  2. 539K views 5 months ago. ...more. For Bobby Womack, audacity was at an all-time high. He showed up to his friend Sam Cooke's funeral, driving his car, wearing one of his best suits, with...

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  4. Sep 22, 2021 · The marriage of Ms. Cooke and the soul-singer and guitarist Bobby Womack, a protégé of Sam Cookes, attracted wide publicity in 1965. Mr. Cooke had been murdered three months earlier.

  5. Sam Cooke's Band. Sam Cooke – vocals; Harper Cosby – bass guitar; Sticks Evans – percussion; June Gardner – drums; Clifton White – guitar; Bobby "Valentino" Womack – guitar; Joe Mele's Copacabana Band. Joe Mele – leader; Joseph Fogila – saxophone, flute; John Altman – saxophone, clarinet, flute; George Barrow – saxophone ...

  6. after the Valentinos’ version was released, Bobby became Sam Cookes lead guitarist in the studio and on the road, and his gospel-inflected fretwork can be heard on Sam Coo\e at the Copa, among other recordings. In 1964, the Valentinos achieved limited success with another Bobby Womack original, “It’s All Over Now.”

  7. Dec 11, 2016 · Two months after Sams death, Barbara had dumped the bartender and married Sams friend and back-up singer Bobby Womack. For Sams part, he was always a womanizer. As his friend Bumps Blackwell once said, “Sam would walk past a good girl to get to a whore.”

  8. The audio in this documentary is captured from Bobby Womack interviews. Bobby Womack speaks on his legendary hits, writing for the movie "Across 110 Street",...

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