The Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies have announced the release of The Heshoo Beshoo Group’s only album and shared its lead single “Wait And See”. Called Armitage Road, it was originally released in 1970 by the EMI subsidiary label Little Giant.

Formed in 1969 by Henry Sithole, The Heshoo Beshoo Group included Henry's brother Stanley Sithole, guitarist Cyril Magubane (responsible for writing much of the LP), bassist Ernest Mothle and drummer/percussionist Nelson Magwaza. In a nod to The Beatles' Abbey Road sleeve, the original LP cover shows the band members crossing the township street Armitage Road in Orlando, Johannesburg, the then address of 24 year old Magubane. Pictured on the sleeve in a chair, he was struck with polio in childhood.

Once disbanded, Henry Sithole, along with Bunny Luthuli, went on to form South Africa group The Drive. They both died in a car accident in Tzaneen on 5 May 1977. Magwaza also played in The Drive, while Mothle left the country and joined other South African exiles in the London based group Jabula.

Armitage Road was released in France by Columbia in 1971, and by His Master’s Voice with a colourised cover in 1974. This newly remastered reissue will be released on 30 October in Vinyl, CD and digital formats.