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Bobby Womack discography

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Bobby Womack discography
Studio albums28
Live albums3
Compilation albums9
Singles47

The discography of American recording artist Bobby Womack consists of 28 studio albums, 3 live albums, 9 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

Albums

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Studio albums

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List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B

[1]
UK
[2]
Fly Me to the Moon
  • Released: January 1969
  • Label: Minit
174 34
My Prescription
  • Released: February 1970
  • Label: Minit
44
Communication 83 7
Understanding
  • Released: May 30, 1972
  • Label: United Artists
43 7
Facts of Life
  • Released: June 8, 1973
  • Label: United Artists
37 6
Lookin' for a Love Again
  • Released: January 11, 1974
  • Label: United Artists
85 5
I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To
  • Released: March 28, 1975
  • Label: United Artists
126 20
Safety Zone
  • Released: October 27, 1975
  • Label: United Artists
147 40
BW Goes C&W
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: United Artists
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Pieces
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Columbia
Roads of Life 55
The Poet
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Beverly Glen
29 1
The Poet II
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Beverly Glen
60 5 31
So Many Rivers
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: MCA
66 5 28
Someday We'll All Be Free
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Beverly Glen
59
Womagic
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: MCA
68
The Last Soul Man
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: MCA
Save the Children
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: SOLAR
Resurrection
  • Released: August 16, 1994
  • Label: Continuum
91 87
Back to My Roots
  • Released: August 24, 1999
  • Label: Capitol
Traditions
  • Released: November 4, 1999
  • Label: Capitol
Christmas Album
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Indigo
The Bravest Man in the Universe
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Label: XL
181 21 49
The Best Is Yet to Come
  • Released: TBA
  • Label: XL
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

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List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B

[1]
Your Navy Presents Bobby Womack
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: United States Navy Recruitment
The Womack "Live" 188 13
Soul Sensation Live
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Compilation albums

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  • 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
  • 1993: Midnight Mover – The Bobby Womack Collection (EMI USA)
  • 1998: Red Hot + Rhapsody
  • 1999: Traditions (The Right Stuff/Capitol/EMI)
  • 2003: Lookin' For a Love: The Best of 1968–1976 (Stateside Records)[3]
  • 2004: Fly Me to the Moon/My Prescription on one CD ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Understanding/Communication ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Womack Live/The Safety Zone ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Lookin' For A Love Again/BW Goes CW ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Facts of Life/I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2013: Everything's Gonna Be Alright: The American Singles 1967-76 (Charly Records)
  • 2014: Icon (Capitol/UMe/Universal)

Singles

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As lead artist

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Year Titles (A-side, B-side)
Both sides from same album except where indicated
Peak chart positions Certification Title
[1] [1] [2]
1965 "Nothing You Can Do"
b/w "Get It While You Can"
Non-album tracks
"I Found a True Love"
b/w "A Lonesome Man"
1966 "What Is This"
b/w "I Wonder"
1967 "Find Me Somebody"
b/w "How Does It Feel"
"Baby, I Can't Stand It"
b/w "Trust Me"
"Broadway Walk"
b/w "Somebody Special" (from Fly Me to the Moon)
1968 "What Is This"
b/w "What You Gonna Do (When Your Love Is Gone)" (Non-album track)
33 Fly Me to the Moon
"Fly Me to the Moon"
b/w "Take Me"
52 16
"California Dreamin'"
b/w "Baby, You Oughta Think It Over"
43 20
1969 "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
?b/w "Love, the Time Is Now" (from Fly Me to the Moon)
48 My Prescription
"It's Gonna Rain"
b/w "Thank You"
43
"How I Miss You Baby"
b/w "Tried and Convicted"
93 14
1970 "More Than I Can Stand"
b/w "Arkansas State Prison"
90 23
"I'm Gonna Forget About You"
b/w "Don't Look Back"
30
"Everybody's Talkin'"
b/w "Something"
The Womack "Live"
1971 "Breezin'"
b/w "Azure Blue"
Both sides with Gábor Szabó
43 High Contrast
(Gábor Szabó's album)
"The Preacher"—Part 2 / "More Than I Can Stand"
b/w Part 1
30 The Womack "Live"
"Communication"
b/w "Fire and Rain"
40 Communication
1972 "That's the Way I Feel About Cha"
b/w "Come L'Amore"
27 2
"Woman's Gotta Have It"
b/w "(If You Don't Want My Love) Give It Back" (from Communication)
60 1 Understanding
"Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)" / 51 16
1973 "Harry Hippie" 31 8
"Across 110th Street"
b/w "Hang On in There"
56 19 Across 110th Street
"Nobody Wants You When You're Down and Out" 29 2 Facts of Life
"I'm Through Trying to Prove My Love to You" 80
1974 "Lookin' for a Love" (solo re-recording)
b/w "Let It Hang Out"
10 1 Lookin' for a Love Again
"You're Welcome, Stop On By"
b/w "I Don't Want to Be Hurt by Ya Love Again"
59 5
"I Don't Know"
b/w "Yes Jesus Loves Me"
I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To
1975 "Check It Out"
b/w "Interlude #2"
91 6
"It's All Over Now"
b/w "Git It"
68
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way"
b/w "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
13 Safety Zone
1976 "Daylight"
b/w "Trust Me"
5
1977 "Home Is Where the Heart Is"
b/w "We've Only Just Begun"
43 Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Standing in the Safety Zone"
b/w "A Change Is Gonna Come"
1978 "Wind It Up"
b/w "Stop Before We Start"
Pieces
"Trust Your Heart"
b/w "When Love Begins Friendship Ends"
47
1979 "How Could You Break My Heart"
b/w "I Honestly Love You"
40 Roads of Life
1981 "Secrets" / 55 The Poet
1982 "If You Think You're Lonely Now" 3
"Where Do We Go from Here"
b/w "Just My Imagination"
26
1984 "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye" (with Patti LaBelle)
b/w "Who's Foolin' Who"
76 The Poet II
"Love Has Finally Come at Last" (with Patti LaBelle)
b/w "American Dream"
88 3
"Tell Me Why"
b/w "Through the Eyes of a Child" (with Patti LaBelle)
54 60
1985 "Someday We'll All Be Free"
b/w "I Wish I Had Someone to Go Home To"
74 Someday We'll All Be Free
"I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much"
b/w "Got to Be with You Tonight"
2 64 So Many Rivers
"Let Me Kiss It Where It Hurts"
b/w "Check It Out"
50
"I'm So Proud" (with Cecil Womack)
b/w "Searching for My Love"
Someday We'll All Be Free
1986 "Gypsy Woman"
b/w "Whatever Happened to the Times?"
So Many Rivers
"(I Wanna) Make Love to You"
b/w "Whatever Happened to the Times?" (from So Many Rivers)
57 100 Womagic
1987 "How Could You Break My Heart"
b/w "Give It Up"
UK-only release
86 Roads of Life
"So the Story Goes"
b/w "The Liam McCoy"
Both sides with Living in a Box
81 34 Non-album tracks
"Living in a Box"
b/w "I Can't Stay Mad" (from Womagic)
70 The Last Soul Man
1988 "Outside Myself"
b/w "A Woman Likes to Hear That"
1989 "Priorities"
b/w Instrumental version of B-side
Save the Children
"Save the Children"
b/w Instrumental version of A-side
83
1991 "I Wish I'd Never Met You" (with Mica Paris)
Featured on "If I Love U 2 Nite" CD single by Mica Paris
Non-album tracks
1993 "I'm Back for More" (with Lulu)
CD single with four different mixes
27
1995 "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" (with Jeanie Tracy)
CD single with seven different mixes
73
2004 "California Dreamin'" (re-release)
2. "Lookin' for a Love"
3. "Holding On to My Baby's Love" (Non-album track)
CD single
59 The Preacher
2012 "Please Forgive My Heart"
CD single with two different mixes
The Bravest Man in the Universe
"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

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Year Title Peak chart positions
US
Pop
US
R&B
AUS
[7]
AUT
[8]
BEL
[9]
GER
[10]
IRL
[11]
NLD
[12]
NZ
[13]
SWI
[14]
US
[15]
1962 "Lookin' for a Love"
(The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack)
72 8
1964 "It's All Over Now"
(The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack)
94 21
1985 "(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up to You"
(Wilton Felder featuring Bobby Womack and Altrinna Grayson)
102 2
2010 "Stylo"
(Gorillaz featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack)
48 40 25 63 56 56 103
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Other appearances (non-comprehensive)

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Year Song Other artists Album
2001 "Get a Life" Rae & Christian Sleepwalking
"Wake Up Everybody"
2010 "Cloud of Unknowing" Gorillaz & Sinfonia ViVA Plastic Beach
2011 "Bobby in Phoenix" Gorillaz The Fall
2015 "New Day Coming" Rudimental We the Generation

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Bobby Womack - Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 10, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "BOBBY WOMACK - full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Stateside Records". Statesiderecords.com. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  5. ^ "British certifications – Bobby Womack". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved July 24, 2022. Type Bobby Womack in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  6. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 1078–1080. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
  7. ^ Peak chart positions for singles in Australia:
  8. ^ "Discographie Gorillaz". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  9. ^ "Discografie Gorillaz". ultratop.be (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  10. ^ "Gorillaz (Single)". charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  11. ^ "Discography Gorillaz". irish-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  12. ^ "Discografie Gorillaz". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  13. ^ "Discography Gorillaz". charts.nz. Hung. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  14. ^ "Gorillaz" (Select "Charts" tab). swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  15. ^ "Gorillaz – Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2013.