Bobby Womack discography
| Bobby Womack discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 28 |
| Live albums | 3 |
| Compilation albums | 9 |
| Singles | 47 |
The discography of recording artist Bobby Womack consists of 28 studio albums, 3 live albums, 9 compilation albums, and 47 singles.
Albums[]
Studio albums[]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B |
UK | ||||
| Fly Me to the Moon |
|
174 | 34 | — | ||
| My Prescription |
|
— | 44 | — | ||
| Communication |
|
83 | 7 | — | ||
| Understanding |
|
43 | 7 | — | ||
| Across 110th Street |
|
50 | 6 | — | ||
| Facts of Life |
|
37 | 6 | — | ||
| Lookin' for a Love Again |
|
85 | 5 | — | ||
| I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To |
|
126 | 20 | — | ||
| Safety Zone |
|
147 | 40 | — | ||
| BW Goes C&W |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Home Is Where the Heart Is |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Pieces |
|
205 | — | — | ||
| Roads of Life |
|
206 | 55 | — | ||
| The Poet |
|
29 | 1 | — | ||
| The Poet II |
|
60 | 5 | 31 | ||
| So Many Rivers |
|
66 | 5 | 28 | ||
| Someday We'll All Be Free |
|
207 | 59 | — | ||
| Womagic |
|
— | 68 | — | ||
| The Last Soul Man |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Save the Children |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Soul Seduction Supreme |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Resurrection |
|
— | 91 | — | ||
| Back to My Roots |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Traditions |
|
— | — | — | ||
| Christmas Album |
|
— | — | — | ||
| The Bravest Man in the Universe |
|
181 | 21 | 49 | ||
| The Best Is Yet to Come |
|
— | — | — | ||
Live albums[]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US R&B | ||||
| Your Navy Presents Bobby Womack |
|
- | - | ||
| The Womack "Live" |
|
188 | 13 | ||
| Soul Sensation Live |
|
— | — | ||
Compilation albums[]
- 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)[1]
- 2004: Fly Me to the Moon/My Prescription on one CD ($tateside/EMI Records)[1]
- 2004: Understanding/Communication ($tateside/EMI Records)[1]
- 2004: Womack Live/The Safety Zone ($tateside/EMI Records)[1]
- 2004: Lookin' For A Love Again/BW Goes CW ($tateside/EMI Records)[1]
- 2004: Facts of Life/I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To ($tateside/EMI Records)[1]
- 2013: Everything's Gonna Be Alright: The American Singles 1967-76 (Charly Records)
- 2014: Icon (Capitol/UMe/Universal)
Singles[]
As lead artist[]
| Year | Titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated |
Peak chart positions | Certification | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pop |
R&B |
|||||
| 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" |
94 | 13 | – | |||
| 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 | – | Womagic | ||
| 1987 | "How Could You Break My Heart" b/w "Give It Up" UK-only release |
– | – | – | 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 | |
As featured artist[]
| Year | Title | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Pop |
US R&B |
AUS [4] |
AUT [5] |
BEL [6] |
GER [7] |
IRL [8] |
NLD [9] |
NZ [10] |
SWI [11] |
US [12] | ||
| 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) |
— | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2010 | "Stylo" (Gorillaz featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack) |
— | — | 48 | 40 | 25 | 63 | — | 56 | — | 56 | 103 |
Other appearances (non-comprehensive)[]
| 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[]
- ^ a b c d e f "Stateside Records". Statesiderecords.com. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
- ^ a b "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
- ^ Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 1078–1080. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
- ^ Peak chart positions for singles in Australia:
- All except "On Melancholy Hill" and "Doncamatic": "Discography Gorillaz". australian-charts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- "On Melancholy Hill": "The ARIA Report: Issue 1067 (Week Commencing 9 August 2010)" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-08-10. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- "Doncamatic": "The ARIA Report: Issue 1083 (Week Commencing 29 November 2010)" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-20. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "Discographie Gorillaz". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Discografie Gorillaz". ultratop.be (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Gorillaz (Single)". charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "Discography Gorillaz". irish-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Discografie Gorillaz". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
- ^ "Discography Gorillaz". charts.nz. Hung. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Gorillaz" (select "Charts" tab). swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ "Gorillaz – Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
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