Poet II is a 1984 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne "Bobby" Womack is an American singer-songwriter and musician. An active recording artist since the early 1960s where he started his career as the lead singer of his family musical group The Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guitarist, Womack's career has spanned more than 40...

. The album featured the hit duets with fellow soul legend Patti LaBelle

Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...

 on the top three R&B charted ballad, "Love Has Finally Come at Last" and the more modest follow-up, "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye" and the top 75 UK dance hit, "Tell Me Why".

Track listing

1. "Love Has Finally Come at Last" (Bobby Womack) – 5:36
2. "It Takes a Lot of Strength to Say Goodbye" (Chris Brubeck
   Chris Brubeck
   Christopher Brubeck , better known as Chris Brubeck, is a U.S. musician and composer, both in jazz and classical music. As a musician, he mainly plays electric bass, bass trombone, and piano. The son of noted jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, he toured and recorded for ten years with The Dave...
   
   ) – 3:52
3. "Through the Eyes of a Child" (Bobby Womack, 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...
   
   ) – 5:21
4. "Surprise, Surprise" (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford) – 3:38
5. "Tryin' to Get over You" (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford) – 4:16
6. "Tell Me Why" (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford) – 6:16
7. "Who's Foolin' Who" (Bobby Womack, Jim Ford) – 4:02
8. "I Wish I Had Someone to Go Home To" (Bobby Womack, Cecil Womack
   Cecil Womack
   In 1983, under the name of Womack & Womack, Cecil and Linda released a successful album, Love Wars, and continued to make albums until 1993. Their song "Love Wars" was covered by The Beautiful South for the 1990 compilation Rubáiyát. Their most successful single was "Teardrops" in 1988.-Albums:*...
   
   ) – 3:47
9. "American Dream"(Bobby Womack, Jim Ford)

Personnel

• Bobby Womack - vocals, guitar
• Patti LaBelle
  Patti LaBelle
  Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...
  
   - vocals
• Courtney Sappington, David T. Walker
  David T. Walker
  David T. Walker is an American guitarist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued over twelve albums in his own name.-Career:...
  
  , George Benson
  George Benson
  George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
  
  , Robert Palmer - guitar
• David Shields - bass
• Michael Wycoff - keyboards
• Denzil "Broadway" Miller, Rusty Hamilton - synthesizer
• James E. Gadson
  James Gadson
  James Gadson is an American drummer and session musician. Beginning his career in the late 1960s, Gadson has since become one of the most-recorded drummers in the history of R&B music....
  
   - drums
• Fred Johnson - electronic drums
• Paulinho da Costa
  Paulinho Da Costa
  Paulinho da Costa is a Brazilian percussionist born in Rio de Janeiro, considered one of the most recorded musicians of modern times. Playing over two hundred percussion instruments, he has participated in thousands of recording sessions, Grammy Award-winning albums, hit songs, soundtracks, radio...
  
   - percusssion
• Fernando Harkless, Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
  , Harry Kim, Sidney Mulgrow, Thurmon Green, Wilton Felder
  Wilton Felder
  Wilton Lewis Felder is both a saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of The Crusaders, initially called the Jazz Crusaders. Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded the group while in high school in Houston...
  
   - horns
• Dorothy Ashby
  Dorothy Ashby
  Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane, Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone...
  
   - harp
• James Gadson, Kathy Bloxson, Regina Womack, The Valentinos, Luther Waters, Julia Waters, Oren Waters, Maxine Waters - background vocals
• Dave Bloomberg - string arrangements
• Otis Smith - executive producer

"American Dream" contains an excerpt of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream

I Have a Dream

"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination...

" speech of 1963.