Bobby Womack discography
Studio albums28
Live albums3
Compilation albums9
Singles47

The discography of American recording artist Bobby Womack consists of 28 studio albums, 3 live albums, 9 compilation albums, and 47 singles.

Albums

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B

[1]
UK
[2]
Fly Me to the Moon
  • Released: January 1969
  • Label: Minit
174 34 —
My Prescription
  • Released: February 1970
  • Label: Minit
— 44 —
Communication 83 7 —
Understanding
  • Released: May 30, 1972
  • Label: United Artists
43 7 —
Facts of Life
  • Released: June 8, 1973
  • Label: United Artists
37 6 —
Lookin' for a Love Again
  • Released: January 11, 1974
  • Label: United Artists
85 5 —
I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To
  • Released: March 28, 1975
  • Label: United Artists
126 20 —
Safety Zone
  • Released: October 27, 1975
  • Label: United Artists
147 40 —
BW Goes C&W
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: United Artists
— — —
Home Is Where the Heart Is — — —
Pieces
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: Columbia
— — —
Roads of Life — 55 —
The Poet
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Beverly Glen
29 1 —
The Poet II
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Beverly Glen
60 5 31
So Many Rivers
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: MCA
66 5 28
Someday We'll All Be Free
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Beverly Glen
— 59 —
Womagic
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: MCA
— 68 —
The Last Soul Man
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: MCA
— — —
Save the Children
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: SOLAR
— — —
Resurrection
  • Released: August 16, 1994
  • Label: Continuum
— 91 87
Back to My Roots
  • Released: August 24, 1999
  • Label: Capitol
— — —
Traditions
  • Released: November 4, 1999
  • Label: Capitol
— — —
Christmas Album
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Indigo
— — —
The Bravest Man in the Universe
  • Released: June 12, 2012
  • Label: XL
181 21 49
The Best Is Yet to Come
  • Released: TBA
  • Label: XL
— — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Live albums

List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
US
[1]
US
R&B

[1]
Your Navy Presents Bobby Womack
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: United States Navy Recruitment
— —
The Womack "Live" 188 13
Soul Sensation Live — —
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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)[3]
  • 2004: Fly Me to the Moon/My Prescription on one CD ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Understanding/Communication ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Womack Live/The Safety Zone ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Lookin' For A Love Again/BW Goes CW ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 2004: Facts of Life/I Don't Know What the World Is Coming To ($tateside/EMI Records)[3]
  • 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
[1] [1] [2]
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)
— 57 100 Womagic
1987 "How Could You Break My Heart"
b/w "Give It Up"
UK-only release
— — 86 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
"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

[6]

Year Title Peak chart positions
US
Pop
US
R&B
AUS
[7]
AUT
[8]
BEL
[9]
GER
[10]
IRL
[11]
NLD
[12]
NZ
[13]
SWI
[14]
US
[15]
1962 "Lookin' for a Love"
(The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack)
728—————————
1964 "It's All Over Now"
(The Valentinos featuring Bobby Womack)
9421—————————
1985 "(No Matter How High I Get) I'll Still Be Looking Up to You"
(Wilton Felder featuring Bobby Womack and Altrinna Grayson)
1022—————————
2010 "Stylo"
(Gorillaz featuring Mos Def & Bobby Womack)
——48402563—56—56103
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bobby Womack - Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 10, 2013. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "BOBBY WOMACK - full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Stateside Records". Statesiderecords.com. Retrieved November 11, 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Gold & Platinum". RIAA. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ "British certifications – Bobby Womack". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved July 24, 2022. Type Bobby Womack in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
  6. ↑ Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 1078–1080. ISBN 1-84195-017-3.
  7. ↑ Peak chart positions for singles in Australia:
  8. ↑ "Discographie Gorillaz". austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Discografie Gorillaz". ultratop.be (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Gorillaz (Single)". charts.de (in German). GfK Entertainment. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Discography Gorillaz". irish-charts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Discografie Gorillaz". dutchcharts.nl (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Discography Gorillaz". charts.nz. Hung. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  14. ↑ "Gorillaz" (Select "Charts" tab). swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
  15. ↑ "Gorillaz – Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
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