Sam Cooke’s Granddaughters, The Womack Sisters, Are Continuing the Family Legacy

[@a.m.thomas9366]

I am so thrilled to see anyone who's related to Sam Cooke cuz that man was so beautiful.

[@preciousone9377]

What a legacy! I hope the industry is kind to them and they are able to be true to themselves and have an awesome journey as music artist.

[@jujutrini8412]

I think it’s easier these days to kind of be independent - the internet and KZbin means they have more opportunity to own their own music, studio, etc. I understand what you are saying though, but I think they have angels looking out for them.

[@schurrlittle1339]

SAM COOK AND BOBBY WOMACK LEFT THEIR LEGACY WITH THESE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES, THE WOMACK SISTERS!!😊

[@DP-gx4dr]

Bobby Womack, that's my guy. 😍

[@tcalip2968]

I love love songs. 👍👏🌟🎉

[@bettyjenkins2162]

Bobby Womack was their uncle

[@gwendolynwilliams1117]

@@DP-gx4dr I must agree with you. that was my guy to. so was Sam Cooke rest in peace. I'm still loving you.

[@maudinerichardson3361]

@@DP-gx4dr Harry Hippie himself

[@CandyCoated96]

💗💓💗Sam Cooke was before my time. But everyone that knows me, knows, Sam Cooke is my absolute favorite male singer. Hem of His Garment and Change Gone Come are amongst my favorite songs. Beautiful girls and they have a beautiful authentic sound. 💗💓💗

[@sunkissdj5608]

Yes! Looooove both of those songs

[@tombryant2690]

Awesome

[@allthingshome6953]

Gorgeous young ladies. I'm so very happy for their success.

[@aDDmoreJuiceTV]

INDEED!

[@LissetteLissie]

Classy and beautiful and talented ladies in their own right.

[@patriciabaldwin8512]

Wow. What beautiful ladies. I'm glad they keep his music alive.

[@RainbowEarthAngel123]

A dream come true indeed! I only started listening to Sam Cooke because Michael Jackson mentioned his name and now this! Happy! 🤗

[@NeptuneLady1957]

Doesn't matter how you got there, only that you did!!!❤️

[@RAYGUNKNEESHURT]

I love their song on the sirusXM. I had no idea this was their grandfather wow they have talent all in their veins. Bobby and Sam were so talented.

[@noreneal7252]

Sam Cooke did love books, he said it enhanced his writing abilities!

[@healthesoul7566]

I have decided to surrender my life and soul to Lord Jesus Christ now

[@catherinebutler3003]

Praise the Lord! 🙏🏾❤️

[@annettefrazier4131]

🙌

[@yolandavaughn4835]

Amen I am with you

[@palms235]

Aaaamen🙏🏿

[@herberthunter5570]

Amen in Jesus Name 💜💕💜

[@Nanbebe7]

So happy to see children of legends continuing on with Gift.

[@Ecargo8200]

Those earrings are GIVING, Tamron!!!

[@hicksa1]

So classy! They are dressed so appropriate ❤️❤️

[@Korcasandromedaa]

Classy? Lol this is a family show how do you think their team gonna dress them.

[@Ibantar]

Prince was on to something with the name of one of his groups... The New Power Generation!!! THIS IS IT right here!!!!! Much success to these ladies!!!!

[@DearMsFabulous]

Wow! The legacy lives on through the Womack Sisters!

[@charlestaylor8785]

These young Ladies are great singers

[@rochellepeyton3384]

I just read about the sam cooke and bobby womack scandal it's so sad i KNOW this has nothing to do with them i wish them all the success

[@ryanamari2233]

Their family history is very interestingly intertwined …however these young ladies are more than that part of their legacy

[@marissawilson4644]

Honeyyyyy! Tell me about it!!

[@HeyCaudle]

​@@marissawilson4644 Here you go... Sam Cooke was Bobby Womack's mentor/friend. Bobby Womack married Sam Cooke's widow shortly after Sam passed away causing an uproar. Bobby cheated oh his wife (Sam Cooke's widow) with his step-daughter (Sam and his now wife's daughter Linda). This ruined the relationship between mother and daughter forever according to Bobby Womack's autobiography. If I recall correctly, she shot Bobby after she found out he was sleeping with her daughter/his step-daughter. The daughter was 17 years old when she found out about the affair with Bobby Womack. They divorced as a result (of course). The step-daughter left Bobby and started a relationship with his brother Cecil Womack. Cecil and Linda formed a group called Womack and Womack. The ladies in the video on Tamron are Sam Cooke's grand-daughters, Bobby Womack's nieces, and their parents are Cecil Womack (Bobby Womack's brother) and Linda Womack (Sam Cooke's daughter/Bobby Womack's step-daughter/mistress). If you're into reading, check out Bobby Womack's autobiography. It was a page turner. He had an interesting life...that's for sure.

[@shonda79able]

I agree. It's a whole movie.

[@shonda79able]

@@marissawilson4644 you gotta Google it.

[@marissawilson4644]

@@shonda79able someone filled me in

[@cynthiasolomon6383]

I was just listing to my Bobby Womack CD today, beautiful young Ladies.Peace

[@bryanlott2]

Sam Cooke is and will always be my idol

[@heartstrings7814]

As a Huge Sam Cooke fan since the early 70's and spending years researching his murder and talking to several people in the industry from that era in addition to Sam's nephew Eric from Chicago; I have never understood or even fully accepted how Sam Cooke''s own daughter ( the mother of these young ladies) could marry a Womack after what Bobby Womack did to Sam Cooke. For those who don't know, Bobby Womack was a young man of about 21 when he became a Sam Cooke protege and Sam took him under his wing and taught Bobby a lot about the industry and helped to get Bobby Womack started. Bobby Womack ended up sleeping with Sam's wife Barbara. Sam himself was a ladies man during his marriage. It was said after Sam's brutal death which was a set up, Barbra allowed Bobby Womack to wear Sam Clothes and he showed up at Sam's funeral in Sam Cooke's clothes. I believe Barbra had married Bobby Womack by then. She was several years older than Bobby. Because of her coldness, rumors swirled that she had something to do with Sam's murder. At one point, Sam Cooke's brothers went to hotel where Bobby Womack was staying and Beat his ass for the disrespect Bobby showed to his friend Sam. Fans were livid at Barbra and hated her so bad she went into hiding. Barbara is of course the grandmother of these young ladies. With this kind of awful history, how could Sam's daughter marry a Womack?? I don't understand?? Sam's daughter and her husband had a couple of songs of r&b charts in either 70's or early 80's. They were called " Womack and Womack". It has always broken my heart that his daughter married into Bobby Womack's family. I know there's a lot the public doesn't know but I spent years researching, because I wanted to do a play about Sam's life, so I had gathered a lot of information. But no one could help me make sense of his daughter marrying a Womack. Til this day, no one ever talks about Barbra Cooke. She received lots of death threats from Sam Cooke fans.

[@deenad3562]

Sam Cookes wife Barbara wasn't his first wife. She was one of his many affairs, and although he married her, he continued to have several kids in and out of his marriage, to the point they were Both having affairs. In fact, he was killed by a hotel manager after allegedly threatening to rape her, or a guest. After his death, Barbara did marry Bobby Womack, who was 10 years younger than her, and a year later found Bobby in bed with her and Sam's daughter, Linda, and tried to shoot him. And yes thats Linda, these girls' mother. Yes, These girls, whose father is Bobbys brother, Cecil. So Linda doesn't come from the best stock when it comes to loyalty and values (speaking of Sam AND Barbara), and then she started off young making despicable choices, and apparently continued the risky behavior marrying Cecil, who also had some nerve in continuing a bad legacy for His family name. One can only hope that these two ladies will break the cycle. But if you want a modern-day version of this unfolding, see Scottie Pippin's wife and Michael Jordan's son. Very sad and crazy, with all their options in this world....

[@janjordan-bonner9050]

Excellent research! I am a fan of Sam’s and Bobby’s music,and like you, I could never understand how or why Sam’s widow could become Bobby’s wife either.

[@clementjohnson2666]

@aazed71 You can say that again 🙄 !!!

[@toshasmith6696]

I’m glad you explained b/c I knew the history but not exactly but I was like🤔is it their grand momma that was with both Sam and Bobby 😮 and a oooopppp chile😂

[@heartstrings7814]

@@janjordan-bonner9050 Thank you for your acknowledgement of my years long research on Sam Cooke. And as far as him wife is concern, I guess that saying that goes ," Hurt people, hurt people" just may apply to her decision to marry Bobby. In other words, I personally believe its possible she wanted to hurt Sam Cooke. However, during my research, I learned Many of Sam's family members believed Barbra took part in setting up Sam that night to be killed because as the information goes, she knew he was with another woman again. Its alleged Bobby knew of this plot which is why the Cooke brother beat his ass at the hotel. .

[@LenoreBaxter]

Beautiful Lady’s with beautiful souls❤

[@aprilm4423]

I really 💕 love the outrageous outfits. Perfectly eye-catching!🤩🤩🤩

[@evonza4858]

Ps ladies stay focused and on point like your musical legacy family 🥰❤️🖤💚 l love you all

[@theresafitzpatrick1157]

Truly a awesome talented family & The Womack Sisters i luv their music

[@patpat8195]

There mother she was a beauty so pretty she looked like a model her hair was beautiful her face and there father and mother loved each other so mush nice family pretty girls

[@des.4381]

I remember Sam Cooke was something else. I remember the story about him and Bobby Womack and the same woman. I also remember Womack and Womack singing duo and their history. And how Sam Cooke lost his life by this woman.

[@prbmami]

I have to check out their music. One of my favorite songs is “Baby I’m Scared of You” by Womack and Womack, their parents.

[@bedrockhomecentral]

When this popped up on my youtube, I hesitated opening it, because I was expecting something ratchet, but I was very impressed with Ms. Hall's hosting and the charming two sisters; because it appeared that they understood their roots... Thanks beautiful Black women!!!

[@theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543]

I am a fan. I hope they do a tour and come to the Bay Area. Please come to Oakland or SF. They will sell out easily!!! We love yall!!

[@evonza4858]

I love Sam Cooke and everybody else 🥰❤️🖤💚🙏🏽❤️🖤💚

[@hadeev]

These sisters are stunningly beautiful, but that pink jacket and necklace are dope as hell! Fiyah…Tsssssssss!

[@venetraroberson2539]

Praise God Thank God

[@tp34221]

That family tree is…interesting to say the least.

[@cflo1023]

ONE THING: the pic you showed at 1:12 is Edwin Starr not Bobby Womack!! Other than that this is great to see! Great history.

[@moniquemiller5536]

I caught that

[@macyprimm7201]

😉👏👏👏

[@QueenSugar72]

I just said to myself, "That is not Bobby"

[@SandTHelp]

I noticed it myself, and I just made a comment about it up top.

[@Gravyballs2011]

Bobby Womack had a big forehead.

[@kingdoc3262]

Nice to know there connection and Continue the legacy

[@PandoraFlakes]

Crazy intertwined story. It's good to see the Children came out okay.

[@NeptuneLady1957]

These girls were not even born when the craziness was happening; and their mother clearly left it behind (she was a child herself).

[@PandoraFlakes]

@@NeptuneLady1957 Crazy intertwined story. It's to see the Children came out okay.

[@PandoraFlakes]

@@NeptuneLady1957 Are gonna comment on other similar comments not just mine.

[@nguzoloveinlofi3832]

That picture was NOT Bobby Womack...

[@Dee-lw8nv]

Otis Redding- Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

[@tonisumblin2719]

NO. it is not. You’re right.

[@dndanga]

True

[@hermandavis8131]

Who is it

[@Dee-lw8nv]

@@hermandavis8131 Otis Redding

[@Mytherapistsaid001]

That picture is not Bobby Womack!

[@nikkisaracini1948]

Beautiful young ladies

[@MADWEASELCOMEDY]

Somebody get me a pen and a piece of paper... I GOT TO TRACE THIS FAMILY TREE HERE! Cause I'm confused

[@mistyblue3206]

Interesting story behind all this. 🍿🍿🍿 VERY interesting.

[@glennmcallister2509]

I remember I was at a the Womack and Womack concert at the Shepherds Bush. Empire,London. The girls also appeared on stage with their parents. Around 15 years ago. I am a big Sam Cooke fan

[@ceebee4750]

Beautiful in and out.

[@thegworlsarefighting]

Can we talk about how and why the Cooke family doesn’t own his catalog? Their grandmother sold it for 50k back in the day. How sad.

[@Shomari_Supreme]

Wow💔

[@annamcneill8658]

I enjoyed hearing these ladies speak! So well spoken

[@patricksuttle8209]

Could this show's producers not find a authentic photo of Bobby Womack?

[@jjsky3003]

I didn’t like that at all

[@margaretkirkland8965]

DOUBLE BLESSING NOT FORTUNATE🙏🏽🔥🔥🔥🎤

[@littlefinger5199]

OMG I LOVE THE WOMACK SISTERS!

[@ByteMwen]

HERE for this!!!!!! I love their sound.

[@a.k.williams9775]

Beautiful and talented 😍

[@inspirebymikaeli3502]

I hope that they are able to get a Sam Cooke Broadway show up with the actor from Hamilton who played him in 1 Night in Miami. They have a a good clean look and I will try to find their music on social media.

[@Msbarbiedoll62]

They Are so Gorgeous ❤❤👑👑

[@katrinawall7758]

Sam Cooke was a beautiful man.

[@lyndamartinez2257]

he certainly was an extremely brilliant man whose impact and influence on music itself. worldwide will endure on into perpetuity

[@rochellepeyton3384]

Based on all this information the Womack brothers sound like every one wanted to be with them at all cost it didn't matter wow loyalty meant nothing to them its REALLY 😥

[@SandTHelp]

I'm not sure if Tamron Hall and her team were aware, but the gentleman in the picture when she announced Bobby Womack's name was not him. This needs to be corrected out of respect for 'his' legacy.

[@ruff1draft]

This is excellent wish them the greatest success

[@bellydancer3146]

She ain't sick...you can tell they all got in a fight that morning lol.

[@tiffanyc8307]

Love me some of Bobby Womack

[@stuartperry1047]

Me too, but that photo wasn't him.

[@lovesyah4618]

@@stuartperry1047 I kept looking at that photo 🤔 Harry Hippie is my favorite song ❤️

[@TanyaP822]

Beautiful but gotta say it..Womack was Sam's friend n these girls families have come along why with healing I suppose Soul Mess ..but Beautiful out come.The stories at Holidays n when some gets in their feelings could be interesting 🤔👏

[@mariastewart8810]

Let me get the family dynamics correct here - Sam Cook's granddaughters but Bobby Womack is their uncle - how so? As I understand it Sam's widow married Bobby 3 months after Sam's untimely death but I'm at a loss..............

[@pearlsrevealed]

Sam Cooke’s daughter Linda married Bobby Womack’s brother Cecil. It is not clear if Barbara Cooke is the mother of Linda because Sam kept having out of wedlock babies on her. If Linda is Barbara’s daughter then a mother and daughter married 2 brothers.

[@mariastewart8810]

@@pearlsrevealed So pretty boy Sam could not keep it in his pants😄. Also didn't Barbara shoot Bobby as well?😏

[@lesliebryan9401]

I was confused wit that too...but hey if that's what they call him it is what it is.

[@cookiegilcrest1000]

SOUNDS SKETCHY, SOMEONE'S LYING!

[@monicad351]

5 Womack brothers. Their mom slept with Bobby W at a young age. So he was a pedo for real. Their grandmom was married to Bobby. The daughter was so mad. She Left home and years later married Sam Womack.

[@truebetold65]

Hey that wasn't Bobby Womack. @ 1:12

[@aflentertainment]

A Change is GONNA come... damn!!!

[@lovesyah4618]

Beautiful ❤️💯🙏🏽

[@AprilCampbell]

They are related to me. I learned this by teasing my family history. I’m related to both Sam Cook(e) and Barbara Campbell. My mother and Barbara are 2brother’s children who were raised/enslaved on the Hands & Eddy plantation in Philadelphia. My grandfather now deceased was actually Indian. I know, I know all Black folk think that ancestor was Navaho but they were really half white/European. It my grandfather was actually Cherokee Choctaw of the the Choctaw plantation in Philadelphia. Then we are, too related to Sam. I don’t think Barbara know that she’s related to my mother.

[@toshasmith6696]

😂

[@shontew360]

I just went down the rabbit hole on the history. I feel bad for how the daughter and her husband at the time slept with each. That was crazy!

[@juicelee6522]

The title of this video just takes you back into how messy Bobby Womack ass was smh 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

[@djcoolcliff]

Wow that was the wrong picture of Bobby Womack!!!!!

[@krystaleve10]

Exactly!!! I was just about to say that!!!!!!

[@tcalip2968]

Thanks for sharing

[@ji4834]

Gorgeous 👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽

[@zinarhone7642]

They are very classy and absolutely beautiful.

[@blanchardjohnson9829]

At 1:12 that's not bobby womack! COME ON! LOL!

[@reekhavoc2932]

Lmaooooo

[@florencejones1752]

They look just like all of em especially the mom!

[@KRoc24]

1:11 was definitely NOT the incomparable BOBBY WOMACK

[@victorshavers6604]

He was considered tha king of soul wasn't he?

[@kincamell2]

Much Gratitude

[@adedaramy5808]

Great show, BUT... that is 100% not Bobby Womack in the photo that pops up when his name is mentioned. It is Edwin Starr captured singing in that photo

[@victorshavers6604]

Their attractive but tha wigs although probably fuller don't look natural but Tamrons is very nice n preserved..

[@helens3677]

What the hell type of english is that

[@CrystalM1917]

Tamrons hair is hers.

[@victorshavers6604]

@@CrystalM1917 I know

[@victorshavers6604]

@@helens3677 should I reply to yur bs that bs ass q? Yu figure it out.

[@usereEyez8890]

I'm glad you spoke on that,cause that wig is horrible 😫

[@barryminor6245]

The title threw me for a loop "Sam Cooke's granddaughters" named Womack?

[@daweilee1986]

I'm confused, they are called the Womack sisters but their grandpa is Sam Cooke, why???

[@kioflife]

Sam Cooke's daughter is Linda Cooke-Womack, their mother.

[@daweilee1986]

@@kioflife Oh yeah, Bobby Womack took Sam's wife then slept with her and Sam's daughter. Later, Linda married Bobby's brother Cecil, so she had two Womack brothers. And these are their kids.

[@brandym.williams7314]

Love the dress

[@KRoc24]

Kucha is her father's child ❤

[@terriadeasfer3624]

That was an interesting intro....although it didnt mention...Bobby slept with they moma Linda while married to their grandma Barbara 😂😂😂😂😂... lawwwdddd

[@MsDisneylandlover]

Loved the jackets I want one for the bday March 31st

[@MrDbroo]

How are they related to both Sam Cooke and Bobby Womack? Someone please enlighten me?

[@lizabetx483]

Sam Cooke's daughter Linda married a brother of Bobby Womack.

[@1fallzeta]

Linda Cooke married Bobby's brother Cecil Womack hence Sam Cooke is their grandfather and Bobby Womack is their Uncle. Amazing family tree

[@tandt7694]

@@lizabetx483 so she married her step-father's brother, correct?

[@MrDbroo]

@@1fallzeta wow! Thanks never knew!!

[@lizabetx483]

@@tandt7694 Yes.

[@noreneal7252]

That was not Bobby Womack’s picture! How do you get that wrong on a Nationally acclaimed black owned network smh!!!

[@eshannon922]

I knew some of Sam Cook’s family personally. I’ve never heard them speak of grandchildren. I’m sure his brother and other family members are still alive. I would be interested to hear their comments. I’m sure Tamara has done her due diligence it just seems a bit strange for me to hear about these young ladies.

[@Shabbydenise]

You're right! I just read that Bobby Womack WORKED with Sam Cook. Sam Cook helped Bobby Womack and his brothers open for other musicians like Ray Charles.

[@lorraineslife]

Apparently Cecil & Linda(sams Daughter) had 7 children together.. Less than three months after Cooke's death, his widow, Barbara, married his friend Bobby Womack.. Barbara and Womack divorced after she discovered Womack was having an affair with Cooke's 17-year-old daughter linda.. Linda married Womack's brother, Cecil and they became the duo Womack & Womack... Cooke also fathered at least three other children out of wedlock. There definitely should be other grandkids of the great late sam cooke the we don't know about

[@CrystalM1917]

@@lorraineslife that's a lot to follow 😅

[@mariastewart8810]

I'm glad I'm not the only one puzzled by this family mixup!

[@naturelove831]

It's really not far fetched, if you really know Sam Cooks history, is was actually a womanizer. When touring he made sure not to visit the same clubs twice to avoid women he may have gotten pregnant so there are probably a lot of kids out there.

[@atlsongbyrd6084]

This is so messy. For Bobby to marry Sams wife was disrespectful

[@heavenawilson7271]

He had passed away..They had been separated for some time before that..Maybe they just fell in love and decided to Wed.

[@shonda79able]

The whole family history is weird. Bobby marrying his widow is really tame compared to the the rest of it.

[@shonda79able]

Also Sam wasn't an angel either.

[@badunina]

Their parents are niece and uncle.

[@karissarobinson1892]

😲

[@MEDIA.AFRICA]

Wow

[@coreycooksey1668]

That wasn't a picture of both Bobby Womack

[@higher_pwr8178]

They should be the W&C Sisters.

[@KC-mj2so]

So, they are Bobby Womack nieces as well

[@jalisabradford6201]

Yess!!! Cecil and Bobby Womack are brothers.

[@BinkyWomack]

Nice y'all

[@deidrabenson361]

❤️❤️❤️

[@rondillard1121]

That was not Bobby Womack in the picture. :(

[@sidvicious647]

Chi town's FINEST ❗❗

[@malotonga4957]

their mother married into the man who disrespected their grandfather by showing up with the widow n wearing sams favorite suit to his funeral yes singers are players but that shame is nothing compared to that n bobby did that after all sam cooke did for him n his brothers will forever taint their names in my book RIP to the father of soul SAM COOKE

[@hildacox8656]

Same Cooke was grandfather?

[@cjrddic3548]

The. Womack sisters is their father Cecil Womack and their. mother. Linda Cooke ?

[@Chanel8-i1n7n]

yes

[@cliffbarber262]

I don think that last pic was Bobby Womack. Check your records