“Daylight,” by Bobby Womack, enters the R&B chart, will it will peak at #5. It is his sixth Top 20 R&B hit in two years.
“How Could You Break My Heart” becomes Bobby Womack’s 17th (and last) Top Forty R&B hit in the Seventies.
Robert Dwayne “Bobby” Womack is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Rolling Stones’ cover of Bobby Womack’s “It’s All Over Now” enters the charts, where it will peak at #26. A month later, Womack’s own version with the Valentinos only reaches #94.
The Valentinos, a group consisting of Bobby Womack and his four brothers, have a #6 R&B hit with the Womack-penned “Looking for a Love.”
Bobby Womack’s self-penned solo single, “How I Miss You Baby,” enters the R&B chart. It will peak at #14 and point the way for bigger things to come in the Seventies.
Bobby Womack’s “That’s the Way I Feel About Cha” enters the R&B chart. It will become the soul singer’s first big crossover hit, peaking at #2 R&B and #27 pop.
Bobby Womack’s first #1 R&B hit, “Woman’s Gotta Have It,” makes its chart debut.
“Harry Hippie,” by Bobby Womack, enters the charts. It will peak at #8 R&B and #31 pop, earning the singer his first gold record.
Bobby Womack’s soundtrack for the urban-reality film Across 110th Street enters the album chart. The hard-hitting title track will become a Top 20 R&B hit.
Facts of Life, by Bobby Womack, is released. It will become his highest-charting (#37) album of the Seventies and yield the #2 R&B hit “Nobody Wants You When You’re Down and Out.”
“Looking for a Love,” by Bobby Womack – a re-recording of a song he wrote and recorded with the Valentinos in the Sixties – enters the charts. It will top Billboard’s R&B chart for three weeks and make the Top Ten on the pop chart.
Bobby Womack releases I Don’t Know What the World Is Coming To, which contains the R&B hit “Check It Out” (#6) and a remake of “It’s All Over Now” with Bill Withers.
“I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much,” by Bobby Womack, enters the R&B chart, where it will peak at #2. It is his second #2 hit this year – and the last time he’ll make the Top Forty.
Bobby Womack christens a new decade with the strongest and highest-charting album of his career, The Poet. A sequel, The Poet II, follows in 1984. Between them, they’ll sell nearly 3 million copies.
“Love Has Finally Come at Last,” a duet between Bobby Womack and Patti Label, debuts on the R&B chart, where it will reach #3.
Bobby Womack releases Save the Children, whose title track will become a minor R&B hit. It is his last album for five years.
Rebounding from a period of depression and exhaustion, Bobby Womack releases Resurrection, a return to form that finds him joined by many esteemed rock and soul colleagues
Bobby Womack receives the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation
Bobby Womack is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 24th annual dinner. Ron Wood is his presenter.
