8.2 /10 1 Votes
88% Rotten Tomatoes Composer(s) Dimitri Tiomkin Initial release 25 November 1956 Story by Jessamyn West | 7.5/10 IMDb Published 1956 Lyricist(s) Paul Francis Webster Director William Wyler Music director Dimitri Tiomkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Screenplay Jessamyn West, Michael Wilson Cast Gary Cooper, Anthony Perkins, Dorothy McGuire, Phyllis Love, Richard Eyer Similar Quakers movies, Gary Cooper movies, American Civil War movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pat boone friendly persuasion thee i love 1956
"Friendly Persuasion" is a popular song with music by Dimitri Tiomkin and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster. It was published in 1956 and appeared in the 1956 film of the same name.
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- Pat boone friendly persuasion thee i love 1956
- The four aces friendly persuasion thee i love 1956
- References
The best-known version of the song was recorded that year by Pat Boone and it reached the No. 5 position in the USA charts and No. 3 in the UK. Another recording by The Four Aces followed Boone's in 1956 and reached number 45 peak position on Billboard's pop music chart.
The title is an obvious play on words, since the film centers on a Quaker family, a religion known as the "Society Of Friends". Thus, they are said to be of the "Friendly" persuasion.
Bing Crosby recorded the song for his album Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love (1968 version).
Aretha Franklin recorded the song for her album Soft and Beautiful (1969).
The song was recently (2013) used in the BBC television production "Call the Midwife".