Year/Genre/City: 1973, R&B, Brooklyn, New York
Matrix #: MCA-326
Condition: VG+, sounds great, looks good, light marks

Cultural Facts:

Street Roots: The Persuasions built their whole identity around “no instruments, no gimmicks”—a true street-corner vocal group concept carried into the LP era, when most acts were getting louder and more produced.

Industry Myth: Their origin story is tied to getting noticed by major tastemakers in the early ’70s—one of those rare cases where a pure live-style vocal group got pulled into the rock/soul industry without changing what they were.

Repertoire Flex: They became famous for taking songs outside traditional doo-wop—rock, folk, and soul—and making them work a cappella, which helped keep old vocal-group technique relevant to newer audiences.

1/20/2026 CC