The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)

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"The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)"
Single by The Free Movement
from the album
I've Found Someone of My Own
B-side "Comin' Home"
Released November 18, 1971
Genre R&B
Length3:23
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Frank F. Robinson
Producer(s) Toxey French, Michael Omartian
The Free Movement singles chronology
"I've Found Someone of My Own"
(1971)
"The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)"
(1971)
"Love the One You're With"
(1972)

"I've Found Someone of My Own"
(1971)
"The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)"
(1971)
"Love the One You're With"
(1972)

"The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)" is a song written by Frank F. Robinson and performed by The Free Movement. It reached #6 on the US adult contemporary chart, #49 on the US R&B chart, and #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. [1] The song was featured on their 1972 album, I've Found Someone of My Own . [2]

The Free Movement was an American R&B vocal group formed in 1970 in Los Angeles.

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The song was produced by Toxey French and Michael Omartian and arranged by Jimmie Haskell, Omartian, and Bill Straw. [3]

Michael Omartian is an American singer-songwriter, keyboardist, and music producer. He has been a participant in numerous albums, during a career that has spanned more than four decades. As a producer, he has had No. 1 records in three consecutive decades. He is a multiple Grammy Award winner, including for Keyboardist of the Year and Producer of the Year. He spent five years on the A&R staff of ABC/Dunhill Records, as a producer, artist and arranger. He was subsequently hired by Warner Bros. Records as a producer and A&R staff member. Omartian moved from Los Angeles to Nashville in 1993, where he served on the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy and has helped to shape the curriculum for the first Master’s Degree program in the field of Music Business at Belmont University.

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