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Release date: 1970
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$2 each
When Frank Zappa and his wife Gail heard The Persuasions singing over the phone they flew them to L.A and signed them to Frank’s label, Straight Records. This is their first album. It’s partly live and part studio recording. It’s raw & unpolished and the beginning of their next forty plus years of performing.
Release date: 1972
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Street Corner Symphony is an awesome a cappella release, a soaring assembly of songs that slide across the time-line, evoking the 1950s and the 1970s with equal ease, commercial R&B and the most devout gospel music, and even the commercial pop and singer/songwriter influences surrounding them.
Release date: 1988
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Live-to-digital recording session, 3:00 pm April 10th, 1988 in The Whispering Gallery of Grand Central Terminal, New York, NY
Grand Central Station, built in 1913, is the largest train station in the world. The whispering gallery is located on the Grand Central Terminal dining concourse. The acoustics of the low ceramic arches can cause a whisper to sound like a shout!
Release date: 1993
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The Persuasions beloved friend and baritone, Herbert “Toubo” Rhoad passed away while on tour. Toubo was very shy but there was one song he enjoyed singing lead on. It was Ray Charles’ “You Don’t Know Me” But they never recorded Toubo singing it, so here we have Jerry singing it for him and in memory of him. This album is very different for the group as there is musical accompaniment on several tracks.Additional personnel: Elliot Randall, Jock Bartley (guitars), Jim Pepper, “Blue” Lou Marini (saxophone), Jimmy “Creeper” Smith (piano, keyboards), Steve Conn (keyboards, harmonica), Bill Rich (bass), Rufus Steddy (drums, percussion), Ed Greene, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie (drums).
Release date: 1997
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Release date: 1999
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After more than three decades of spreading the gospel of A Cappella, The Persuasions recorded their first album for children. Though it’s aimed primarily at the little ones, say one- to five-year-olds, it’s hard not to enjoy it no matter your age. There are a host of treats, including “Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” “A Cappella Fellas” and the title track. The story that Jerry Lawson spins to frame “On Top of Spaghetti” is not to be missed.
Release date: 2000
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In a work of absurdist inspiration worthy of its subject, a cappella heroes the Persuasions offer up a surprisingly soulful collection of. . .that’s right, Frank Zappa covers. The vocal quintet—expanded to a sextet for this outing—pays homage to Zappa, who inked them to their first album deal in 1969.
Release date: 2010
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After leaving the Persuasions in 2003, Lawson announced that he was absolutely through with A Cappella forever. Jazz combos and big bands beckoned. But on his way to Russia to record a solo album with the Moscow Philharmonic, fate revealed other plans.
Along came Talk of the Town, an A Cappella group that had been studying and performing Lawson’s arrangements for years and wishing they had a lead singer like Jerry Lawson. Suddenly the serendipity of life brought them all together. Jerry said this is the masterpiece of his Acappella career having created the harmonies he long dreamed of but could never realize.
Release date: 2015
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$2 each
Jerry Lawson, lead singer and founding member of The Persuasions, makes his solo debut at 71 years old. With help from Grammy-nominated producer Eric Brace, Jerry makes the thirteen songs on Just a Mortal Man his own, with elegance, heart, and soul. The album features songs from a diverse group of writers including Paul Simon, Robert Hunter, Ayo, Phil Lee, Peter Cooper, and Brace. And Jerry pays tribute to two of his heroes, recording tunes originally done by The Temptations’ David Ruffin and Bobby “Blue” Bland. The recordings feature a core band of Nashville’s finest: Joe Pisapia on electric guitar and bass, Jen Gunderman on keyboards, and Duane Blevins on drums.
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