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Bobby Womack

1944 - 2014

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Robert Dwayne Womack (; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career spanned more than 60 years and multiple styles, including R&B, blues, doo-wop, gospel, funk, and soul. Womack was a prolific songwriter who wrote and originally recorded, (with his brothers, the Valentinos), the Rolling Stones' first UK number one hit ("It's All Over Now") and New Birth's "I Can Understand It". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bobby Womack has received more than 3,578,917 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Bobby Womack is the 1,249th most popular singer (down from 1,116th in 2019), the 6,366th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,055th in 2019) and the 313th most popular American Singer.

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  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SINGERS

Among singers, Bobby Womack ranks 1,249 out of 4,381. Before him are Tiziano Ferro, Taos Amrouche, Glykeria, Skeeter Davis, Rosario Flores, and Najwa Karam. After him are Sotiria Bellou, Alison Moyet, Dulce Pontes, Janet Baker, Jenny Berggren, and Lasse Mårtenson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Bobby Womack ranks 457. Before him are José Dolhem, Gilbert Adair, Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, Daniel Morelon, Helmut Dietl, and Sergei Solovyov. After him are Kansai Yamamoto, Storm Thorgerson, Sergio Markarián, Uwe Barschel, Ayşen Gruda, and Jane Lapotaire. Among people deceased in 2014, Bobby Womack ranks 290. Before him are Lorella De Luca, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Mohammed Fahim, Ara Shiraz, Tullio Regge, and Étienne Mourrut. After him are Joseph Sargent, Victor J. Stenger, Cornell Borchers, Gerald Guralnik, Alakbar Mammadov, and Elizabeth Jane Howard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bobby Womack ranks 6,366 out of 20,380. Before him are Lynn Conway (1938), Jane Greer (1924), Wendell Willkie (1892), Barbara La Marr (1896), Harold D. Babcock (1882), and Hunter Tylo (1962). After him are Patti Scialfa (1953), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), Lexington Steele (1969), George Murdock (1897), Jonathan Carroll (1949), and Melinda Dillon (1939).

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Among SINGERS In United States

Among singers born in United States, Bobby Womack ranks 313. Before him are Philip Bailey (1951), Bobby Helms (1933), Playboi Carti (1996), Lhasa de Sela (1972), Xzibit (1974), and Skeeter Davis (1931). After him are Charlie Dominici (1951), Jakob Dylan (1969), Leonard Warren (1911), Koko Taylor (1928), Brian Hyland (1943), and Dan Reynolds (1987).

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