The number one hit version of Almost Persuaded in the mid 1960s was by singer David Houston. The song was a blockbuster and I saw Houston perform it live in I want to say 1966 in a package show at the Medinah Temple in Chicago that was sponsored by radio station WJJD. I distinctly remember Houston and that this was his hit, not Wynette's. On this show also was Sonny James and the Southern Gentlemen, Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys, and a very young Waylon Jennings, whom I just had to meet afterwords and did.

Another great countrysong popular about the same time was "There Goes My Everything" by Jack Greene, former drummer with Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadors who still sings it occassionally on the Opry.

David Houston passed away not too many years ago.