Bobby Womack - Lookin' For A Love Again

I used to frequent a record shop in a basement in Camden High Street and got on with the bloke behind the counter and we'd spend a bit of time chatting about music. I picked this up and put it on the counter and he said, "Oh, I was going to buy that." He later turned up as one of Captain Birdseye's associates in the fish fingers advert that was running at the time.

This is my favourite period of Womack's work. This album's got a couple of his best tunes on it.

I'd completely forgotten that, a few years later, I used to work with a bloke who was married to a Black American woman. Bobby Womack was a family friend. The bloke from work visited her family and said to Bobby Womack that he worked with a bloke who is a massive fan. Bobby Womack said something like, "That's nice."

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Bobby Womack, J. J. Johnson - Original Motion Picture Score - Across 110th Street

I have no recollection of how I acquired this album. I've owned it for yonks though - mid 80s, I reckon.

It's one of those albums that has become more well known as the years have passed. It's had bootleg and official re-releases. I don't know why this album, in particular, has been singled out for attention - it's decent, but it's no better than a hundred thousand albums of its time.

I used to have the film Across 110th Street on video. It's alright.

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Bobby Womack - Someday We'll All Be Free

A recent post set me off trying to think of my top five soul albums. The top four is easy. And three out of the four are on Beverly Glen.

This isn’t going to be in anyone’s top five. It’s an album of tracks swept up from the cutting room floor after the recording of The Poet and The Poet II albums and released by Otis Smith without Womack’s consent.

Despite that, it’s not a bad album. It’s certainly better than some of the stuff he released in the next few years.

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Bobby Womack - The Poet II

It’s a good indication that a record is one of your foundation tunes, if you can remember being stopped in your tracks the first time you heard it.

I was working overtime on a Saturday morning in 1984. My boss used to go home and leave me to it and I’d change the radio station from Radio 2 (which was even worse on Saturdays than the rest of the week) on to Radio London to hear Robbie Vincent. I remember standing there, completely blown away by Surprise, Surprise.

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