The Hesitations

 

Artist: The Hesitations

LP: The New Born Free

Song: "Let's Groove"

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I spent nearly two hours last night rubbing and peeling to get the giant promo sticker off the lower third of the front of this LP cover (it hid the 3 guys in white, yellow and green shirts up to their eyelids) and I got a big blister on my thumb in the process. (I'm willing to suffer for my art.) Unfortunately, someone put a series of scratches across the first side of the record, which pretty much ruins four of the tracks. You can hear the scratches when "Let's Groove" begins, but they mostly disappear after about a minute since the song is near the end of the side. Formed in Cleveland in the mid '60s, The Hesitations split up temporarily after the accidental shooting death of lead singer George "King" Scott in February of 1968. You can read a little about the group here, and visit the website of the newly formed Hesitations here if you'd like to book them for a special event. Notes and photos from the back of "The New Born Free" LP, released in 1968, are included here: