This is an odd combination of lightly swinging R&B instrumentation and a mainstream middlebrow-style vocal that sounded like Andy Williams or somebody like that. I didn't particularly like it but it is unusual.
The Hesitations were from Cleveland. They charted earlier in 1968 with their version of "Born Free", which reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100 but didn't chart in Toronto (I almost liked it before vocal histronics captured it and took it away). Their version of "The Impossible Dream" reached #42 on the Hot 100 and scraped into the lower regions of the CHUM chart in Toronto.
They followed this up with a version of "Climb Every Mountain", which was more of the same. Their record company finished off 1968 by releasing a cover of "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", which contains a fascinating amount of over-emoting.
Almost all of these singles were released after one of the group's singers, George "King" Scott, was accidentally shot and killed, which caused the group to disband in February 1968. A new version of the band was put together in 2006 and is apparently still performing.
Created November 6, 2026.