"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:
“This monument, so imposing and tasteful, fittingly typifies the grand and symmetrical character of him in whose honor it has been builded. His was “the arduous greatness of things done.” No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other but breaks in pieces.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)