Consumer Guide Album

The Persuasions: Street Corner Symphony [Capitol, 1972]
If you believe acappella is inherently superior to "commercial" rock and roll, you'll prefer the Persuasions' covers to the Sam Cooke and Impressions and Temptations originals. But if you think it's an eccentric alternative, you'll note that Jerry Lawson's style is a punchier, less delicate variation on the sweet gutturals of David Ruffin, who himself barely gets by--with skillful help from Norman Whitfield--on a grade-B ballad like "I Could Never Love Another." B