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The Valentinos
The Valentinos
American musical group; family R&B group from Cleveland, Ohio
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Womack & Womack
Womack & Womack
American musical duo
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Sam Cooke
Sam Cooke
American recording artist; singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
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René Hall
René Hall
American musician, performer, and music arranger
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Calvin Richardson
Calvin Richardson
American singer
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Mary Wells
Mary Wells
American pop/soul singer
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Billy Preston
Billy Preston
American musician whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel (1946-2006)
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Leon Ware
Leon Ware
American recording artist, songwriter and composer
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Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald
American recording artist; singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer
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Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett
American singer and songwriter
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Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson
American singer
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Little Willie John
Little Willie John
American recording artist; R&B singer
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New Birth
New Birth
American musical group
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Al Green
Al Green
American singer
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Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls
American record producer
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Jimmy Hughes
Jimmy Hughes
American former rhythm and blues singer
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Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler
American soul singer and songwriter
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The Box Tops
The Box Tops
American rock band
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David Ruffin
David Ruffin
American singer
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Solomon Burke
Solomon Burke
American singer
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Wilton Felder
Wilton Felder
American musician
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Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips
American R&B singer
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Phillip Mitchell
Phillip Mitchell
singer and songwriter
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Sam & Dave
Sam & Dave
American soul and R&B duo
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Otis Redding
Otis Redding
American singer, songwriter and record producer
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The Brothers Johnson
The Brothers Johnson
Funk Band
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Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson
American guitarist, born 1954
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Bob Relf
Bob Relf
American R&B musician
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Jay Berliner
Jay Berliner
American musician
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Curtis Mayfield
Curtis Mayfield
American singer, songwriter, and record producer
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Bobby Whitlock
Bobby Whitlock
American musician
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
American singer, songwriter, and pianist
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Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
guitarist
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Larry Reinhardt
Larry Reinhardt
American guitarist
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The Righteous Brothers
The Righteous Brothers
American singing duo
Bobby Womack
American singer-songwriter and musician

Bobby Womack

Member of, past and present

Robert Dwayne Womack (/ˈwoʊmæk/; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. 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, soul, rock and roll, doo-wop, and gospel.

Womack was a prolific songwriter who wrote and originally recorded, (with his brothers, the Valentinos), the Rolling Stones' first UK number one hit, "It's All Over Now" and New Birth's "I Can Understand It". As a singer, he is most notable for the hits "Lookin' for a Love", "That's the Way I Feel About Cha", "Woman's Gotta Have It", "Harry Hippie", "Across 110th Street", and his 1980s hits "If You Think You're Lonely Now" and "I Wish He Didn't Trust Me So Much".

In 2009, Bobby Womack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.