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FREE MOVEMENT

“I’VE FOUND SOMEONE OF MY OWN”

(Frank K. Robinson)

Decca 32818

No. 5   November 13, 1971

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History doesn’t reveal just how they came together, nor just how and why they fell apart so rapidly.  All we

know is that they were six kids from all across the country who met in Los Angeles in 1970.  Only Josephine

Brown and Godoy Colbert had any musical background.  Godoy, the oldest, had sung professionally in the

Afro Blues Quintet, the Pilgrim Travelers, and the Pharaohs; Josephine had received training from her

gospel­ singing father and had been a member of the Five Bells of Joy. The others in Free Movement were

Cheryl Conley, Jennifer Gates, and the Jefferson brothers, Adrian and Claude.

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After rehearsing for a few months, Free Movement made a demo and shopped it around town. Decca

Records liked what they heard and quickly issued ”I’ve Found Someone of My Own” as a single. Six months

later, when the pop/soul single charted, the group had already changed their allegiance, having signed with

Columbia Records.  An album–named after the hit­ was quickly issued.  Kal Rudman, columnist with Record

World magazine, in his assessment of the Fifth Dimen­sion-like group could barely control his excitement:

“There is no question in my mind that this album will become one of the top sellers of the year and that this

group will undoubtedly win all the polls as the ‘hot new group discovery’ of the years 1971-72.”   The LP

barely broke into the Billboard’s Top 200 Albums (#167).  Two more singles were released.  “The Harder I

Try (The Bluer I Get)” (#50, 1972) did so-so, and then–silence; the long hibernation in obscurity.