label owner and radio DJ Tom Donahue (credited under his birth name, Thomas Coman) and 20-year-old Sylvester Stewart, later known as Sly Stone, and was produced by Stewart. Freeman's final hit was "S-W-I-M", later in 1964. In 1964 Bobby Freeman played nightly at the Condor Club in San Francisco, where Carol Doda performed her topless go-go dancing shows. Mainly supporting himself as a singer in clubs by the late 1960s, Freeman continued to release singles on various small local labels through to the mid-1970s but met with little commercial success. Freeman performed at the Bay Area Music ("Bammy") Awards in later years. In 1970s, he was noticed among UK northern soul fans. Death Freeman died of natural causes on January 23, 2017, aged 76. Discography Albums 1958: Do You Wanna Dance (Jubilee) 1959: Get in the Swim (Josie) 1960: Lovable Style of Bobby Freeman (King) 1964: C'mon and Swim (Autumn) Chart singles Note: * Billboard did not publish an R&B chart during this period. Bibliography The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Pareles, Jon & Romanowski, Patricia, eds., Summit Books 1983 References American soul musicians African-American musicians 1940 births 2017 deaths Northern soul musicians People from Alameda County, California Singers from San Francisco Josie Records artists Loma Records artists King Records artists 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American people