Bobby Womack Reaction Across 110th Street (WHEW! PIMPS! THOTS! JUNKIES!) | Empress Reacts

[@Delred1]

I love this song, takes me back to the clubs in Liverpool in my youth, lyrics n music fantastic

[@wakeupstopsleeping6300]

Your correct 110 st is Harlem NY in Manhattan. Uptown as we new yorkers like to called but this is soundtrack to the 70's black movie "Across 110th Street" Fred Williamson is star of the movie and he was fine then. This was the Blaxploitation era never care for that term. A must see by the way Bobby was always bring he brings the gut wrenching soul. He was a songwriter he was a backup guitarist for Sam Cooke. So yes he wrote the song grew up on Bobby my mom had all his stuff RIP he passed away in 2014.

[@EmpressReacts]

oh wow!!!

[@peterwalsh2470]

the movie Jackie Brown brought me here. such an awesome song, it's hard to comment genuinely without witnessing anything like the song describes, but you can picture it and it takes you back to the early 70s. I bet you are happy you found this song.

[@TheoZoffrok]

First time I remember hearing this song was in the opening title sequence of Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino's third film. Perfect song placement.

[@bobdubolina]

Great, great 70’s music! Bobby was a great singer/songwriter.

[@peterscoop2647]

Man, those are some HARD lyrics fr!!

[@EmpressReacts]

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[@Dougwarren69]

This was the opening to the movie Jackie Brown, what a classic. Love it, Great job girl. ✌️🔟

[@DanCrowleyNYC]

This song is so musically rich in regards to the orchestrations, instruments and vocals. Love it. (And yes, I never discovered it until I saw Jackie Brown years ago as well, what a fantastic soundtrack!)

[@ccth22]

Across 110th st heading to Sylvia’s in Harlem for breakfast. (Just playing) seriously this movie was great, NYC subculture on full display and this song epitomized it…

[@mikecaetano]

Sweet! The whole song is fire, but I dig how it goes over on that first chorus after all that build up. Bobby Womack started in music in the fifties as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos. The Rolling Stones put their first number one in the charts with a cover of his song "It's All Over Now" back in 1964. "Across 110th Street" was scored for a 1972 crime film starring Yaphet Kotto and Anthony Quinn. The film was shot on the streets of New York for authentic rawness. I've only seen it once and that was long ago. The poster is way cool. J.J. Johnson also conducted the orchestra for the soundtrack. The instrumental version of this song is hot too. In the film Yaphet Kotto and Anthony Quinn play two cops investigating a botched bank robbery. The filmographies of both actors are filled with great films. Anthony Quinn's list of parts reads like several chapters in a film history class -- La Strada, Lawrence of Arabia, Zorba the Greek, The Guns of Navarone, The Shoes of the Fisherman, Viva Zapata!, Lust for Life, Wild Is the Wind, Requiem for a Heavyweight -- Muhammad Ali pummels him in that film. Yaphet Kotto's list of parts include some greats as well, The Thomas Crown Affair, Live and Let Die, Alien, Brubaker, The Star Chamber, The Running Man, and Midnight Run.

[@generaines6369]

Good catch with the 90s vibe. K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci remade "If You Think You're Lonely Now" by Bobby Womack

[@jessieodawa]

Old skool classic...luv it.

[@williamhenderson1521]

Recorded in my hometown Muscle Shoals, Alabama!

[@TheoZoffrok]

Yes, there's a connection with Womack & Womack. Off the top of my head, I think Cecil Womack was Bobby's brother, and Linda was Cecil's wife.

[@Trojan7575]

I thought that @Womack&Womack were a married couple? Pretty sure that's why the band broke up.

[@mztweety1374]

Detroits 8 mile is our 110th street. You could literally see the suburban addicts get off the bus, and score in the hood. I remember somebody nodded out at the bus stop in front of Dunkin Donuts. Left Detroit in 2012 so my kids would live.

[@EmpressReacts]

glad u made it out

[@mztweety1374]

@@EmpressReacts same here quite a few cousins, uncles and my nephew did not ...

[@EmpressReacts]

@@mztweety1374 😔

[@JanainThomas]

Yes, he wrote this song. He and his brothers were signed to Sam Cooke's label and was a favorite of K-Ci from Jodeci/K-Ci & JoJo. The song was a reference to 110th Street in Harlem during a time when heroin among other things was ruining the black community in the 70s thanks to Frank Lucas (depicted in the movie American Gangster) and Nicky Barnes. You should react to "A Woman's Gotta Have It" and "If You Think You're Lonely Now".

[@kylechristian7232]

STRAIGHT FACTS AND KC COVERS HIS SONG FOR THE JASON'S LYRIC SOUNDTRACK IN 1994 IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN AS BOBBY WAS A HUGE INFLUENCE ON HIS VOCAL STYLE ATTACK AND APPROACH

[@kylechristian7232]

Sidenote He has an incredible accoustic Version of This song and he's also playing Guitar on The Iconic Sly and The Family Stone album There's A Riot Goin On

[@darnell49]

CLASSIC SOUNDTRACK SOUL‼️Yep he co wrote this and 💯the 90s soul dudes either had Bobby's or Stevie's singing style. Bobby painted a picture with his words. Bobby got me feeling him.

[@EmpressReacts]

I knew my ears weren't deceiving me

[@darnell49]

@@EmpressReacts You mos definitely have those golden ears

[@Tannhauser108]

such a classic record

[@lobo667-z1e]

Bobby' was a musical genius!!

[@kylechristian7232]

Yes he did Write the Song for The Film The sog l found placement in The Film American Gangster

[@mickeyhank]

I love this song as well Empress. Glad you liked it so much! I looked it up, he is the writer of it with along with a guy named JJ Johnson. I was wondering if he grew up in New York but it turns out he grew up in the ghetto in Cleveland. It was written in Wikipedia that his family was so poor they would fish pig snouts out of the local grocery’s garbage. I have to think he, no matter where it was, witnessed everything he wrote about here. This was the theme song of a movie of the same name in 1972 so it could be also that he was tailoring the lyrics to the story in the movie. Very interesting observation you made about how you feel some 90s and 2000s R&B singers were influenced by Bobby’s singing.

[@gsprings43]

you could watch kojak,,,it was on around the time of this song and dealt with the going ons of new york city back then,drugs pimps murder etc

[@peterscoop2647]

Im subscribin cause you give good vibes

[@EmpressReacts]

Thanks!

[@carlbaker7242]

This sure nuff an old school jam , but Bobby put the words down so HARD and TRUE.. It still matters. Check out the movie.

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

That's how I felt when I first heard it, Love it.

[@roadwarrior280]

One of the top ten songs of all time.Captures perfectly the vibe in NYC in the 1970'S.Best played in the car at night with the windows rolled up.Killer.The movie was a classic as well

[@shaunfoulk7049]

Oh yeah, the break neck soul of this song 🎶You are going to love it the most 😊Enjoy 💖🙏👍

[@cpalmer0703]

No he wrote the song they didn't call him the poet for nothing

[@jonathancowley1758]

Empress where you from. I love the swag

[@EmpressReacts]

Thanks! ATL 😍

[@cpalmer0703]

I agree dcyoungfly can play Bobby Womack

[@EmpressReacts]

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[@poppiethestable1090]

Go Kanye...

[@poppiethestable1090]

Bobby Womack is another prodachae of Mr..Soul...SAM COOKE...Bobby was Sam's guitar player ...Bobby had affair with Sam's wife..When he showed up with her at Sam's untimely funeral, driving Sam's car & wearing one of his suits...Sam's brother broke Bobby's jaw ...In honor of his baby brother...

[@mickeyhank]

@@poppiethestable1090 Wow, never knew that, crossing a few lines there, Bobby.. . certainly don't blame Sam's brother...

[@poppiethestable1090]

@@mickeyhank Hott pick Henry...I cut my teeth on Bobby Womack, Cutis Mayfield ,Willie Hutch etc...The most Street the better...That's where the Truth lies..Thus is where the Power is..

[@mickeyhank]

@@poppiethestable1090 Thanks Poppie. Cool, I could tell you have a deep knowledge of this period and "genre". I know the name Willie Hutch but not his music. And growing up I knew of Bobby but didn't hear this tune until maybe 2000, which is shocking considering its quality. Empress had to hear this, clearly....

[@poppiethestable1090]

@@mickeyhank Bend a ear to the demo cut...Worth the time...Imho