“Almost Persuaded” is a song written by Epic Records producer Billy Sherrill and his business partner Glenn Sutton, first recorded by American country singer David Houston In 1966.
The song spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart starting in August 1966 and has since gone on to become a country standard. The song was also a crossover pop hit for Houston as well, reaching number twenty-four on the Billboard Top 40 pop chart.
For 46 years and two months, no No. 1 country song matched the chart-topping longevity of “Almost Persuaded,” until Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” reached its ninth week atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs in December of 2012.
Houston’s original version of the song won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording of 1966,
The song’s composers, Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton are regarded as the defining influences of the Countrypolitan sound, a smooth amalgamation of pop and country music that was popular during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s.
Sherrill co-wrote many other hit songs including “Stand By Your Man” and “The Most Beautiful Girl”.
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