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The Valentinos (also known as The Womack Brothers) was an American family R&B group from Cleveland, Ohio, best known for launching the careers of brothers Bobby Womack and Cecil Womack. Bobby went on to find greater fame as a solo artist while Cecil became successful as a member of the husband and wife duo of Womack & Womack with Linda Cooke .
In 1971, rock band the J. Geils Band covered the song as one of its first releases and the song became a top-40 hit for them, peaking at number 39. Record World called it a "hard driving rocker" and a "high energy package." [9] Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian named "Flamethrower" as the band's 3rd best song. [10]
Robert Dwayne Womack (/ ˈ w oʊ m æ k /; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.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, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul.
By CHRIS TALBOTT Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's publicist Sonya ...
"It's All Over Now" is a song written by Bobby Womack and his sister-in-law Shirley Womack. [1] It was first released by The Valentinos, featuring Bobby Womack, in 1964. The Rolling Stones heard it on its release and quickly recorded a cover version, which became their first number one hit in the United Kingdom, in July 1964.
Cecil Womack was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, and performed with his older brothers Bobby (1944–2014), Harry (1945–1974), Friendly, and Curtis (born Howard Curtis Womack on 22 October 1942, died 21 May 2017 in a Bluefield, West Virginia hospital of respiratory heart failure), [1] as a gospel group.
Bobby Womack was JaRae's uncle. He married Cooke's widow months after Cooke's demise, which was controversial at the time. Her grandparents are Cecil and Linda Womack, Sam Cooke's daughter, of ...
1975: Greatest Hits (United Artists) – US No. 142, R&B No. 30 1975: I Can Understand It (United Artists) – same tracks as on Greatest Hits 1986: Check it Out (Stateside) – UK SSL 6013