The Free Movement

The six-member ensemble known as Free Movement scored a breakthrough in 1971 when Decca Records released their single “I’ve Found Someone of My Own,” which climbed to number five on the pop chart and number twenty on the R&B chart. Their vocal style echoed that of the 5th Dimension. Godoy Colbert, previously of the Pilgrim Travelers and the Pharaohs, Josephine Brown of the Five Bells of Joy, Cheryl Conley, Jennifer Gates, and siblings Adrian and Claude Jefferson first assembled in Los Angeles, where they cut a series of demos. Decca then issued the aforementioned single, which reached those Billboard positions during the spring of 1971.

At that point the act had already moved to Columbia Records. The label issued their debut album, also titled I’ve Found Someone of My Own, in January 1972. The follow-up single, “The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)” backed with “Comin’ Home,” peaked at number forty-nine R&B and number fifty pop in the early months of that year. A subsequent release found the group interpreting Stephen Stills’ “Love the One You’re With.” No further entries appeared on the charts after this second Columbia single.