He first got involved in film when, in 1986, he helped to finance director Spike Lee's debut feature She's Gotta Have It.
Something's Gotta Give | Something's Gotta Give (film) | We Gotta Get out of This Place | Woman's Gotta Have It (song) | Woman's Gotta Have It | Something's Gotta Give (movie) | Something's Gotta Give (LeAnn Rimes song) | She's Gotta Have It | Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)#Young Divas version | Man You Gotta Get Up | Loving You's a Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It | Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It | I Gotta Be Me | Gotta Dance | Gotta Catch 'Em All | Gotta Be Somebody | Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues | Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime | A Man's Gotta Eat |
Womack, in partnership with Cecil, gained renown as a songwriter of soul songs in the late seventies and eighties, with "Woman's Gotta Have It", co-written with her brother-in-law Bobby Womack and Darryl Carter; "Love T.K.O.", recorded by Teddy Pendergrass; "Love Bankrupt", released by Patti LaBelle; and the ballad "New Day" by soul singer and jazz guitarist, George Benson.