*Meet the Womack Sisters… the offspring of Linda Cooke-Womack (Sam Cooke’s daughter) and Cecil Womack (Bobby Womack’s brother). Late last year, Cooke’s teenage sweetheart Barbara Campbell ...

Their story started out as if lifted from one of his love songs.Sam Cooke was 18 and Barbara Campbell was only 13 when they met on the South Side of Chicago. Fifteen years later, Mr. Cooke, by ...

They are also the granddaughters of both Sam Cooke, and his — and Bobby Womack’s — ex-wife, Barbara Cooke. And their Mother’s ex-boyfriend is their uncle, Bobby Womack,” ILOSM writes.

Womack and Barbara Cooke got closer and she eventually asked him to marry her, something Womack wrote about in his 2006 memoir, “Bobby Womack: My Story.” “If you promise to give me five ...

Shortly after Cooke’s death, Womack offered counsel and comfort to Cooke’s widow Barbara. But three months after Cooke’s death and just as Womack turned 21 years old, he went a step further ...

Barbara Cooke had two children that were not Bobby’s when they married, but The Womack’s first child, Vincent Dwayne Womack was born in 1966. Their marriage dissolved due to scandal and in 1971 ...

Two generations before ‘Love and Hip-Hop,’ Bobby Womack’s life could have been a reality television show. The now legendary story of Womack’s marriage to his mentor Sam Cooke’s widow ...

Womack was also Cooke's backing guitarist. In March 1965, just three months after Sam Cooke's death, Womack found himself in a scandal after marrying Cooke's widow, Barbara Campbell. In the late ...

Womack was Cooke's protégé, 13 years his junior. In early 1964, Cooke first played him a song he'd just recorded at RCA called "A Change Is Gonna Come." "It sounds like death," Womack told him.

Bobby Womack picks up the phone, and speaks what’s on his mind in a voice made of gravel. “I know a lot of people who are not here anymore,” the R&B; great says, “and I wonder why I’m ...

Shortly after Cooke was shot and killed in Los Angeles in 1964, Womack married his widow, Barbara, considered a scandal by some in the music business. (They divorced in 1970.) ...