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Bobby Womack - Greatest Hits

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This compilation of Bobby Womack's songs is merely nice, but it is NOT a complete single disc collection that this legend deserves!!! Songs like 'Across 110th St', 'If You Think You're Lonely Now', 'Love Has Finally Come At Last' (w/Patti LaBelle), and MORE are not on this CD!!! I would recomend this 'Greatest Hits' collection (for less than 5 bucks!), BUT you must also invest in Bobby's 'The Best Of The Poet Trilogy' CD!! Bobby Womack's fans simply deserve a deluxe 2 CD retrospective (and not that messy 'Anthology' that Capitol put out!)!! In closing, this CD is a nice 'start' for novice fans who just want to have some of Womack's music, but if you want a CD with the Essentials, you'd do a better job making it yourself (or wait a while)!!

Here's the tracklisting for MY personal Bobby Womack
'Ultimate Collection' (1969 - 1989) CD
1. How I Miss You Baby
2. Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)
3. That's The Way I Feel about Cha
4. Woman's Gotta Have It
5. Across 110th St.
6. Harry Hippie
7. If You Can't Give Her Love, Give Her Up
8. I'm Through Tryin' To Prove My Love To You
9. Nobody Wants You When You're Down & Out
10. You're Welcome, Stop On By
11. Lookin' For A Love
12. Check It Out
13. Daylight
14. If You Think You're Lonely Now
15. Love Has Finally Come At Last (ft.Patti Labelle)
16. Through The Eyes Of A Child (ft.Patti Labelle)
17. It Takes A Lot Of Strength To Say
Goodbye (ft.Patti Labelle)
18. I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much
19. (No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be
Lookin' Up To You (ft.Altrina Grayson)
20. Ain't Nothin' Like The Lovin' We Got
(featuring Shirley Brown)

There you have it! Fans can make this at home since the
record company refuses to release a collection like this!

Enjoy, S.D.
(from 'Chaka's World')

Despite its title (and just like "The Best Of"), this collection curiously excludes many of Bobby's biggest hits. You'll still need to buy about four different CDs to get Womack's finest. Essential tunes missing from this collection include: 'Fact of Life/He'll Be There When the Sun Goes Down', 'If You Think You're Lonely Now', and the AWESOMELY soulful 'Where Do We Go From Here'.

Bobby Womack is simply incredible at times. His soul voice can only be compared to his mentor, Sam Cooke. Seeing Womack's career can only give us a glimpse into what Cooke could have been. Womack is just as an incredible songwriter as he is singer and this CD shows it. As said before Bobby Womack's music is a beautiful thing for soul fans.

This collection however, is just simply not as good as it could have been. To be perfectly honest, I really dislike every track on here that came from 80 and beyond (Check It Out, Ain't Nothin' Like The Lovin' We Got , I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much, Save The Children). Womack sounds completely different, in voice, style, and music. He sounds less soulful and more R&B (which for him is taking away so much) and the production just sounds almost pop. "Sweet Caroline" is really unnecessary, we've all herd the Neil Diamond version so much it's hard for anybody else to really do it.

The real reason it's so disappointing that these tracks are on there is because there's SO much they could have put on here. If I had to make a greatest hits album of his, the excellent tracks would be fighting for room on one disc. How could they possibly have left off "Across 110th Street" not to mention "If You Think You're Lonely Now", "If you Don't Want My Love", "Where Do We Go From Here", even "Quicksand". I don't even claim to be a huge Womack fan, yet I know there's better stuff. So, to see Capitol really waist a lot of space on here and not include other classics is just frustrating.

That aside, there are some amazing tracks on here. "I'm Through Trying To Prove My Love To You" is classic and "The Preacher/More Than I Can Stand" is an epic live track. All In all, there are 13 of the 19 tracks that I really enjoy and to be honest it's more than worth getting this collection to start you off on Bobby Womack. Although I'm not sure I would recommend another "Greatest Hits" collection of Womack instead of this one, I would encourage people new to Womack's music to start hear and realize there's more & at times even better stuff out there.

Bobby Womack just played to a huge crowd at JazzFest in New Orleans, and what a show it was! He's truly one of the greatest living R&B performers -- and he's outlived most of them, so he's still out there...give yourself a treat and see him if you ever get the chance. While Womack has some huge hits of his own, I'd forgotten that he also wrote hits for a lot of other people, too. Bobby Womack has now made my favorite R&B performers of all time list with Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, the Four Tops and the Isleys. If you didn't already know it, his greatest hits will prove he belongs there.

Although Bobby Womack *is* revered in soul circles, its always my great disappointment that he's not the household name/icon he deserves to be. Maybe because he's always lacked the cute/slickness as some of his more celebrated contemporaries, and to my knowledge is more of a singer/songwriter than "in your face" entertainer. - - Like Curtis, another master singer/songwriter he even had his GREAT soundtrack (ACROSS 110th St.) which was co-orchestrated by the J.J. Johnson.

All in all Bobby Womack is almost impossible to describe if you haven't heard him. A south paw (from what I'm told), his voice can be sweet and gospelly one moment, and the next he can be shouting like Wilson Picket/JB... His tunes can infuse almost any influence from country to disco to Jazz and pop and often have some interesting changes that go beyond what you'd expect (not as far out as Stevie Wonder, but pretty deep in their own right !)... First and foremost, however, Womack always stays true to his Classic soul roots which began via his apprenticeship with Sam Cooke... and his tunes are often even greater successes when covered by other groups (ever hear a tune called Breezin' and Walk on By.)

This CD is great for another reason... on many anthologies you get one or two BIG HITS and a few discoveries and in between a lot of... errrrr space. On this CD one track after another is vibrant, energetic and a hit in its own right... (DAYLIGHT being one of my favorites... its one of those tunes that you can really SEE the lyrics and feel the vibe.)

All and all, if Bobby Womack's picture ain't up on the mantle between JC and Marvin Gaye, you simply don't know where it's at !

I have been a fan of Bobby Womack since the age of 9. I absolutely love the man. He's real, he's soulful, such a great spirit on stage. I love he whole C.D. from the 1st song to the last. Bobby You are Right ON! His Music has real instruments, he has a real voice he's the real Mckoy! Excellent on stage. I recently saw him in Boston at The Berklee Performance Center. He was awsome. He looks great, sounds great. If you are a fan of real Voice sounds I would recommend this man any CD he has available is excellent.

This CD really takes me back. I am 47, My Mom always listened to Bobby, Al Greene and so on. As an adult , I can definitely identify with this type of music.

Angela
Augusta, Georgia

A GREATEST HITS CD THAT I LIKE, A FAN OF BOBBY WOMACK,I HOPE SOMEDAY THE LABEL PUT OUT A BOX SET THAT COVERS,EVEN MORE MATERIAL AND COLLABORATIONS THAT THIS GENT HAS DONE OVER THE YEARS....

This is Must Have Soul.Alot Of Great Songs.Bobby WOmack Is ASoul SInger in The Truest Sense. As A Writer, Arranger, Producer, Instrumentalist&Vocalist Bobby Womack's music is timeless.He is a Genius.