I've Never Been to Me [SEP] record label
began playing the "I've Never Been to Me" track off the "Charlene" album (with the original recitative), and response from local listeners was such as to motivate Shannon, a former Motown employee, to alert Motown president Jay Lasker to the track's hit potential. Lasker located Charlene who, discouraged by the poor performance of her 1977 Motown releases and by the label's decision not to release a second album she had recorded, had left the music industry and met and married an Englishman, subsequently accompanying
decided to release the singer from its label. 
Success of "I've Never Been to Me".
Charlene recorded "I've Never Been to Me" in 1976, and the single reached #97 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart in 1977. When released again in 1982, the single (1611 MF) spent 23 weeks in the Hot 100, peaked at #3 and stayed there for three weeks. It also reached #7 on the AC and #60 on the Hot Country