I'm 32 and i grew up on Bobby, Al, Stevie, Teddy and others but they are my absolute favorites. Sometimes i feel I was born in the wrong decade. Music was real, people were more genuine, and not afraid to be free in who they were and create something new. I get lost in my own world listening to the music of the great soul legends.
Rest In Peace to one of my favorite soul singers of all the time. Highly underrated and for shame, because this man here is a true talent... and Im only 34- my parents exposed me to real music at an early age and he will be forever missed!
When we lost this Brother I feel that we lost "The Last Soul Man". Many younger people have NO IDEA what he was alluding to during his classic monologue/" rap" at the start of this classic. Rest in Peace, Soul Brother, for I know you're up in Heaven with your good friend Sam Cooke...
The Godfather of Feelings and expression! Oooooooooooooooooh yeah ! Makes you want to love everything and everyone ,even the ones you never thought you would, Lol .. Soul Power is incredible!!
going to changes.just lost my husband of 40 years to the big C = cancer.............tk u bobby for bringing back great!!!! memories....if u see my MAN up there, pls say hello to him and tell him I am trying to hold on!
Bobby Womack was truly one of the greatest soul singers that ever graced the music industry! He will be forever remembered and deeply missed! Thanks for great music that soothes the soul!
I'm so glad I found this Bobby Womack cover of "Close to You!" This is an absolutely beautiful & deeply soulful rendition. It stands as its own classic! R.I.P Poet!
@@beats4life971 It is a cover. Bobby Womack was not the original lyricist nor the original singer. I believe this Womack version of the song was done in the mid-1970s, well after The Carpenters made it famous in 1970. Karen Carpenter's crystal clear voice powered this song to the top of the charts. The song was released multiple times by different singers in the 1960s-even before the Carpenters. To me Bobby Womack's interpretation of the song is an instant classic in its own rights. His phrasing; the places he chose to emphasize or soften; he expression of raw deep-love emotions is to me the essence of why he was called "The Poet."
He sung is ass off! This is my favorite song by Mr.Bobby Womack...Crazy vocals!! One of the greatest of all time. A real soul man Thank you for sharing your gift to the world ❤️🖤💚🙏🏾✊🏾
I dedicated this to my daughter.She and I were separated in her high school year she went to live with her father.I was devastated I would play this song and cry cry my eyes out we both made it through and were in a good place today...
Man, the first licks of that guitar in this gem almost brings tears to my eyes. It is so real, soulful, and powerful. I grew up in the Deep South years ago listening to my parents and older relatives playing this genuinely fantastic music. They'd sit around and talk about current world affairs. Their conversations were so DEEP as well as the music. Man, Bobby's music was perfect since he's always been "real, not commercial". Thank God I have those experiences!!!
Break it down, Bobby. 2019.This is grown folk music, sho nuff. The Poet of music. Sweet, loving and truthful. You know some folk cannot handle the truth, well don't listen to this singer of rhythm and blues sung so poetically. RIP. Missing you.
Thank you Sam Cooke for discovering Bobby Womack so that I and many others who appreciate TALENT, and not the manufactured CRAP we are forced to listen to now know what the true meaning of GIFTED means. RIP Mr Womack and Sam Cooke.
He RAPED SAM DAUGHTER, I caution you not to mention SAM COOKE Obviously you don't know the FACTS.. GOOGLE how BOBBY BETRAYED his own SON ,VINCIENT by fuckin his GIRL, THE BOY COMMITTED SUICIDE .. BOBBY WOMACK was not a GREAT MAN
After many years, not getting married to the love of my life and after many adventures not getting married at all, this is definitely the song of my life. All the best for all of you people, many blessings for everyone.
I grow up 2 Mr.Mack I wz bron n da 80s 81 n since then I have been hook on him life is Womack all you have to do is just listen to all of is songs and at da end of da day you will know what life is about luv respect n good engery he is 1 of da best if not da best soul singer songwriter that da world have ever had you is truly missed brother Womack I just want to think you 4 all da songs you have made that hlep me get 2 where iam n life my you RIP n ✌my brother
MY GOODNESS BOBBY WOMACK🙏🏆🌟🌎 THIS LEGENDARY LEGEND THIS MAN HAS CHANGED THE WORLD OF GOSPEL,SOUL, SOUL BLUES , JAZZ, FUNK, R&B ROCK MUSIC IN ALL ASPECTS A TRUE MARVELOUS SPECIAL DIAMOND GOLD A PRECIOUS WONDERFUL BEAUTIFUL MAGICAL HUMAN BEING UAOO MAMA MIA BOBBY IS THE MUSIC HIM SELF 100% ONLY ONE BOBY WOMACK JESUS CHRIST🙏🌟 THANK U SIR FOR THAT U GAVE US AND ALWAYS WILL MANNY BLESSINGS🙏
Never knew who sung this song......when I met my husband, we would dance and my husband would sing this song to me and today I found it!!!!!!!! Love it!!!!!
I feel so privileged to have grown up listening hearing Bobby Womack fresh and new on LP or 8-track. What a memory. And here's a shout out to all my generation, we're all closer in our memories of the times that were. Peace.
THANKS!!!!!!! GOD 4 SENDING TO US THESE GREAT SOULSINGERS, GIFTED TO KEEP US LIFTED...BUT NO BODY SOUL HOLDS MORE GOLD, DEEP SOUL THAN YOURS!!!!! EVERY LIVING THING ON YO PLANNED PLANET, HAS A SUPERNATURAL ABILITY JUST LIKE U!!!! SOME MORE THAN OTHERS......2 A VERY GOOD, GRACIOUS GOD!!!!!! BEEEEEEE ALLLLLLL GLORY!!!!!!!
So much soul, so much joy, and so much comfort he shared during his career! This man is truly appreciated and loved. A true King for us in the Blues world! Rest my brother!
i remember the first time i heard this song i was leaving memphis tennessee to go to miami in 1978 me and my 6 sons and i met a woman listening to this song while we was flying to miami. after awhile with her i got close to her, we got married in 1979 and had 4 kids. i met bobby womack in west palm beach and he sang this same song at our wedding. i love that song and i have a reason to say so
sang bobby..... love this soul filled music☺️☺️☺️☺️, been listening to bobby since i was about 12, yess sang baby..... when on ouuuuuut haha lol.... 41 still loven it yesss😘😘😘😘
These are the true great artist. He and so many other greats like Al Green, Sam Cooke, BB King, magicians of music. Some they call artist today, sad reflection on what a society of simplist. RIP.
every since I was a young girl I've been one of his biggest fan I don't think it's a song I don't know and I'm a 80s baby but womack is all me... r.i.p my bobby
they can not make this no more sad ashame That is what is today's R&B classic soul definitely needs to come back but hey we got it here so go no further
Ol' Bobby REALLY did this song some J-U-S-T-I-C-E. And that's the clean truth, Ruth!!!! RIP Mr. Womack. Music was never the same since you left us. PEACE!!!!
sho you right. He got the kinda voice that whether he sing or talk, it's all good. I've seen him a few times in concert and he the man. He's one of my all time greats. Bobby, Frankie Beverly....can't be touched
He carried me through the war “NAM” and Germany in the early seventies. He is THE POET! Such a part of my youth and now carrying home! Thank You My Brother !
He is one of the best, they don't come like him anymore. My children know all about music because they grew up listening to real music like Bobby Womack and excetera Marvin Gaye and all the old school maze and I could just keep on naming if you don't know music like Bobby made you don't know music
