Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town: DEBUT CD:
Twenty songs, an hour of music and a 20 page booklet of extensive liner notes and individual song comments by Jerry. Jerry feels this is the masterpiece of his 22 A Cappella albums. $20.00
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1969
When Gail and Frank Zappa heard the group over the phone he flew them to L.A and signed them to his label “Straight Records” This is their first album and it’s partly live and part studio recording. It’s raw, it’s innocent and the beginning of their next 40 plus years of singing around the world bringing so much joy to so many and gathering loving, loyal fans around the globe who to this day are finding Jerry and sending him loving notes recalling their first time.
The only group in the history of the music business to make a living singing with no label support, no Hollywood/NYC agent, no publicist, no attorney, no day jobs and more extraordinary and against all odds “made it” with NO BAND!
This album has been out of print for decades and it may be discontinued any day. It is surely a collector’s item.
That’s 27 year old Jerry in the white shirt, hand on hip. Toubo to his left. Top of stairs to bottom: Joe Russell, Jimmy Hayes and Jayotis Washington.
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1970
If you had to pick one desert island Persuasions album this would be the one. This was their debut album for Capitol. From Sam Cooke’s “Chain Gang” to Curtis Mayfield’s “Man Oh Man,” this is classic Persuasions material. Bass Jimmy Hayes’ turn on “The Sun” still makes my speakers rattle. It’s almost below the range of normal human hearing! The vitality, the joy, the soulful singing and yes Jerry Lawson’s tremendous phrasing—certainly one of the signature voices of the last fifty years—make this album nothing short of sensational.
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1971
Of all the instruments out there the first and still the finest by far is the human voice. This CD makes the point emphatically. This is five part harmony at it’s best. Stunningly tight and rich A Cappella. So much music today is sloppy and self-indulgent with technology covering up the shabbiness. This is pure music. The virtuoso level of performance is consistent throughout with no drum kit in sight. When the Persuasions take you through their tribute to The Temptations you’ll find yourself wondering if you actually heard what you think you heard. The energy, passion and sheer joy contained in these tracks is enough to blow the spots off a leopard.
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I’ve been a follower of you Mr. Lawson & the Persuasions since the early 70′s. You wouldn’t remember of course but I won 4 tickets to the Bottom Line in the Village I believe in ’73 & was the tall skinny white kid who ran to the stage when they asked “who in the audience wants to sing on stage with the Persuasions”? Your version of The Sun knocks the hell out of the Dell Vikings version. Caught you singing with Talk of the Town on Nick Jr. with three of my grandsons, they’ll get proper exposure to Accapella & Doo Wop. We Came to Play was photoed in the school yard on Park Place right? Your best album, got it on vinyl. Use to live on President & Nostrand many moons ago, God Bless,
Jesse Gordon
I am interested in obtaining or purchase your groups rendition of “God Bless the Child” produced for the TV Show Roc. How do I go about getting that track?
Sorry but it’s never been available to our knowledge. The TV show owns it. Meantime we do hope you’ll take a chance on the Talk of the Town CD if you haven’t already. There is nothing like it in the music world!
Sincerely,
Jerry & Julie Lawson