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Bobby Womack knew
Lookin’ For A
Love
intimately by the time he sat
atop the R&B hit parade with it in
March of ’74. He’d already waxed
the gospel-rooted theme twice
before and scaled the charts with
it a dozen years prior when he was
with his brothers in The Valentinos.
The first time Bobby waxed the
song for SAR Records, it was a
straight gospel piece entitled
Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
. The
Womack Brothers, as the quintet
was then known, came from their
Cleveland homebase and met
their new producer Sam Cooke
at Universal Recording in Chicago in June of ’61. Sam knew the group had R&B
potential, so his SAR partner J.W. Alexander and office manager Zelda Samuels
2. Bobby Womack
Lookin’ For A Love
(J.W. Alexander-Zelda Samuels)
United Artists UA-XW375-W
