"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.
The best-known version of the song was recorded that year by Pat Boone. Another recording by The Four Aces followed Pat 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 be said to be of the "Friendly" Persuasion. Aretha Franklin recorded the song for her album "Soft and Beautiful" (1969).
Famous quotes containing the words friendly and/or persuasion:
“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)