Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 7\/6\/20\/–A new lyric video for \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d a Bobby Womack track that debuted on his 1984 album\u00a0The Poet II,\u00a0<\/em>has been released by ABKCO Records just in advance of the July 4 holiday.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cAmerican Dream\u201d is part of ABKCO\u2019s ongoing series of new premium music video content.<\/p>\n The song\u2019s introduction includes a passage from Martin Luther King\u2019s speech titled \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d that he delivered on June 6, 1961 at Pennsylvania\u2019s Lincoln University, the nation\u2019s first degree granting HBCU.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That speech is acknowledged as the precursor of Dr. King\u2019s \u201cI Have A Dream\u201d speech that he would deliver at the March on Washington two years later. When the song was composed by Womack and collaborator Jim Ford, it occurred to Womack that part of Dr. King\u2019s speech would make a fitting intro.\u00a0\u00a0At that time, he reached out to MLK\u2019s widow, Coretta Scott King, who agreed to license it.<\/p>\n The new lyric video is layered with numerous evocative black and white photographs of Womack made by noted LA-based, South African-born, lensman Norman Seeff.\u00a0 Seeff had an ongoing professional and social relationship with Womack for whom he shot the covers of three studio albums:\u00a0Communication, Understanding<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Poet<\/em>. Seef remembered Womack in an interview for\u00a0M: Music & Musicians<\/em>, noting, \u201cHe loved performing — I didn\u2019t have to push him at all. He would just launch right into a song. He had an energy that, for me, was a benchmark for being in the moment.\u201d\u00a0 He recalled that Womack was an ideal subject, \u201cEvery frame has its own character. He was willing to be vulnerable and fully engaged and not hold anything back. Bobby gave full-on commitment to everything,\u201d Seeff commented. \u201cHe was obsessively creative, in a good way.\u201d The two were fast friends out of the studio with Seeff fondly recalling a time in the early \u201870s when Womack surprised him on the eve of their respective birthdays, Seeff\u2019s on March 5, Womack\u2019s the day previous, March 4.\u00a0 \u201cHe dragged me from my office studio to a cube truck waiting outside. It turned out to be Sly Stone\u2019s recording van. We spent a couple of days at Sly\u2019s house, celebrating that we all had birthdays around the same time.\u201d Sly\u2019s birthday is March 15 and all three of them share the same Pisces astrological sign.<\/p>\n Watch the Official Lyric Video for \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d here\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/nTW6BMTuMeM<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d is the closing track on\u00a0The Poet II<\/em>, one of the trilogy of albums released in the \u201880s, along with\u00a0The Poet<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Someday We\u2019ll All Be Free<\/em>\u00a0on the Beverly Glen label.\u00a0\u00a0The Poet II\u00a0<\/em>was produced by Andrew Oldham and James Gadsen, along with Womack.\u00a0 ABKCO Records, with whom Womack had an association dating back to the mid-1960s, acquired the albums and re-released them in 2009. ABKCO also serves as music publisher for a catalog of Womack\u2019s most notable compositions including \u201cAcross 100th<\/sup>\u00a0Street,\u201d \u201cWoman\u2019s Gotta Have It,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s The Way I Feel About \u2018Cha,\u201d \u201cBreezin\u2019,\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s All Over Now\u201d and \u201cAmerican Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n Bobby Womack\u2019s career spanned six decades and saw him perform, record and write songs in a diverse array of genres including gospel, rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, R&B, soul, pop, jazz, blues and even country until his passing in 2014.\u00a0 In 2009 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n 287 S.Robertson Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<\/p>\n www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSpiritsman<\/a><\/p>\n www.spiritsman.com<\/a><\/p>\n mrspiritsman@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectskintoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectskintoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfecttraveltoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfecttraveltoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectgolftoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectgolftoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectmusictoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmusictoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectnewztoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n![\"tn-10\"](\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/12.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nJULY 4 RELEASE FOR OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO OF BOBBY WOMACK\u2019S \u201cAMERICAN DREAM\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Bobby Womack\u2019s career spanned six decades In 2009 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n