{"id":3279,"date":"2012-11-13T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:39:21","slug":"the-hesitations-summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"The Hesitations – Summertime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download The Hesitations – Summertime<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope the day finds you well.<\/p>\n

Though I know that a lot of my fellow soul heads are strictly in a 45RPM bag, I find myself buying fair amount of long players when and where I find them.<\/p>\n

This has everything to do with my natural curiosity, never-ending hunger for new sounds, and the combination of the two that leads right here to the Funky16Corners Blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soul and funk LPs are often a fantastic source of undiscovered\/underappreciated treasure, as well as being a great, cheap way to pick up songs on vinyl that would break the bank if sought on 45.<\/p>\n

Few things make me happier than grabbing an LP and finding a great song that never made it onto a single, especially interesting cover versions.<\/p>\n

The Hesitations<\/strong> were an Ohio-based soul harmony group that hit the charts several times in the late 60s, often with big ballads like \u2018Born Free\u2019 and \u2018The Impossible Dream\u2019.<\/p>\n

They were also capable of some excellent, upbeat dance floor stuff like the Northern Soul favorite \u2018I\u2019m Not Built That Way\u2019.<\/p>\n

I pick up their records wherever I find them, and did so last year when I found the \u2018Where We\u2019re At!\u2019 album at one of the Asbury Lanes garage sales.<\/p>\n

The big discovery for me on that disc was the group\u2019s absolutely searing cover of the old Gershwin\/Heyward<\/strong> classic \u2018Summertime\u2019.<\/p>\n

Now, the natural inclination would be to be suspicious of anyone covering that particular song who wasn\u2019t named Billy Stewart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His version of the song was a Top 10 R&B and Pop hit in 1966 and is as close to definitive as an cover, of any song has come.<\/p>\n

So, when I see that the Hesitations did their own version, I wasn\u2019t expecting a whole lot.<\/p>\n

Silly me\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

As it turns out \u2013 which you\u2019ll hear as soon as you pull down the ones and zeros \u2013 the Hesitations version of the song is presented in a completely different (and smoking<\/em>) arrangement.<\/p>\n

Their \u2018Summertime\u2019 is an exciting, fast moving take on the song, complete with soul clapping and great harmonies (natch..).<\/p>\n

I dig the way lead singer George \u2018King\u2019 Scott<\/strong> lays into the \u2018TIME!\u2019 in \u2018Summertime\u2019, over and over again, pushing the outer edges of his range.<\/p>\n

It is a very groovy number indeed, and since the Hesitations LPs aren\u2019t too expensive, accessible.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll see you on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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