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The Womack-Womack & Womack

Ok, let me put you up on this awesome record by Womack & Womack.

As of now this record was sampled only 6 times for commercial purposes, however, i can see that changing in near future.

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Wiki on Womack & Womack


Womack & Womack

Cecil & Linda Womack

Background information

Also known as

The House of Zekkariyas

Genres

Years active

1983–2004

Labels


Past members

Womack & Womack was the singing and songwriting partnership of married American musicians Linda Womack and Cecil Womack. The duo were successful as songwriters for other artists and had several international hits as a singing duo in the 1980s and 1990s. Later recordings with other members of their family (three of whom are now (as of 2023) performing together as The Womack Sisters) were credited to The House of Zekkariyas.






Cecil Womack was born in 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, and performed with his older brothers Bobby (1944–2014), Harry (1945–1974), Friendly, and Curtis (born Howard Curtis Womack on 22 October 1942, died 21 May 2017 in a Bluefield, West Virginiahospital of respiratory heart failure),[1] as a gospel group. After meeting Sam Cooke, they changed their name to the Valentinos and in 1961 began to sing and record "the devil's music" for secular audiences, to the horror of their religious father.[2] The Valentinos had a hit record with "Lookin' for a Love," selling two million copies, later becoming a no. 39 U.S. hit for the J. Geils Band in 1971.[2] They toured with James Brown and scored another crossover hit with "It's All Over Now", a song which subsequently reached no. 1 in the UK when covered by The Rolling Stones in 1964.[3]But the fall-out from Cooke's death – he was shot by a motel manager in Los Angeles in December 1964 – and Bobby Womack's subsequent marriage to Cooke's widow months later halted their progress.[4]

In the 1960s, Cecil Womack worked primarily as a songwriter and producer. He first met Linda, who is Sam Cooke's daughter, born in 1953, when he was thirteen and she was eight.[5] Although Linda and Cecil were close, particularly after her father's death in 1964, he married singer Mary Wells in 1967 and wrote material for her, including the hit "The Doctor", released on Jubilee Records. They had three children, and he managed her career until their break-up in 1977.[5] Linda Cooke also worked as a songwriter, co-writing Bobby Womack's "Woman's Gotta Have It."[6] Bobby Womack was her stepfather, having married Sam Cooke's widow, Barbara. Cecil Womack and Mary Wells divorced in 1977, and he and Linda married shortly afterwards,[7] and had four more children together (three of whom have gone on to form "The Womack Sisters" vocal trio as of 2022).


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