Reception

Released January 11, 1974 the album reached #85 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

U.S. Pop Charts, and #5 on the Billboard R&B Charts. It included the hit single "Lookin' For A Love" which charted No. 1 on the Billboard R&B Singles chart , and #10 The Billboard U.S. Pop Chart.

Track Listing and Chart Position

All tracks composed by Bobby Womack; except where indicated

1. "Lookin' for a Love" (James Alexander
   James Alexander (musician)
   James Alexander is an American soul and R&B musician. He is a longtime member of the band The Bar-Kays, for which he plays bass guitar. He also is the father of noted hip-hop and R&B producer Phalon "Jazze Pha" Alexander, whom he named after his best friend and late Bar-Kays bandmate Phalon Jones...
   
   , Zelda Samuels) - 2:37
2. "I Don't Wanna Be Hurt by Ya Love Again" 3:26
3. "Doing It My Way" 5:36
4. "Let It Hang Out" 2:22
5. "Point of No Return" (Jim Ford
   Jim Ford
   Jim Ford was an American singer-songwriter originally from Johnson County, Kentucky. After living in New Orleans, Ford moved to Los Angeles, and finally settled in Fort Bragg, CA. His music is a mixture of soul, country and folk. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Aretha...
   
   ) - 2:44
6. "You're Welcome, Stop on By" (Womack, Truman Thomas) - 3:40
7. "You're Messing Up a Good Thing" (Clayton Ivey, F. Johnson, Terry Woodford) - 2:34
8. "Don't Let Me Down" (Thomas) - 2:04
9. "Copper Kettle" (A. F. Beddoe) 3:17
10. "There's One Thing That Beats Failing" (Womack, Thomas) - 2:42

Personnel

• Bobby Womack - guitar, vocals
• Pete Carr, Rhino Rheinardt, Tippy Armstrong - guitar
• Jimmy Johnson
  Jimmy Johnson (musician)
  Jimmy Johnson is an American a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a period in the 1960s and 1970s, and later was the a founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at...
  
   - rhythm guitar
• David Hood
  David Hood
  David Hood , is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame....
  
   - bass
• Barry Beckett
  Barry Beckett
  Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...
  
  , Clayton Ivey, Truman Thomas - keyboards
• Roger Hawkins
  Roger Hawkins
  Roger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
  
   - drums

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Billboard Pop Albums Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	85
Billboard Top Soul Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...	5

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	US R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
1974	"Lookin' for A Love"	10	1
	"You're Welcome, Stop On By"	59	5

Samples & Covers

• Rufus featuring Chaka Khan covered "You're Welcome, Stop On By" on their album Rufusized
  Rufusized
  -Personnel:*Chaka Khan – lead vocals, background vocals*Tony Maiden – lead guitar, background vocals*Kevin Murphy – organ, clavinette, background vocals, acoustic piano, arp synthesizer*Bobby Watson – bass, background vocals...
  
  in 1974.

External links

• Bobby Womack-Lookin' For A Love Again at Discogs