Extraordinary musician, producer, songwriter, guitarist for Sam Cooke and lead singer of The Valentinos, Bobby Womack included "If You Think You're Lonely Now" on the 1981 LP "The Poet". As a 1982 single the song peaked at number three on the Soul chart, just one of the highlights from a six decade music career.

The soundtrack to the 1994 Jada Pinkett film "Jason's Lyric" helped K-Ci (Cedric) Hailey's version of "If You Think You're Lonely Now" reach number eleven R&B and number seventeen on the Top One Hundred. K-Ci and his brother JoJo (Joel) were members of the R&B group Jodeci.