Country Music Legend of the Week, David Houston [VIDEOS]

David Houston (December 9, 1935 – November 30, 1993) was an American country music singer. His peak in popularity came between the mid-1960s through the early 1970s.

Houston was born in Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, and lived briefly as a boy in a house at the intersection of Marshall and Goodwill streets in Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

Houston was one of the earliest artists with National Recording Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1965, he rose to national stardom with the single ""Livin' in a House Full of Love" going to number two on Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart.

In 1966, Houston recorded his breakthrough secular smash, "Almost Persuaded." This song, is the tale of a married man managing to resist a temptress he meets in a tavern. Houston's recording of it quickly rocketed to number one that August, eventually spending nine weeks atop Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. Ever since "Almost Persuaded" became a country standard, no song has equaled or bettered Houston's feat.

Houston was awarded 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country & Western Recording and Best Country & Western Performance, Male in 1967 for "Almost Persuaded".

"Almost Persuaded" began a string of top five Houston singles through 1973, including six more number ones: "With One Exception" and "You Mean the World to Me" (1967); "Have a Little Faith" and "Already It's Heaven" (1968); "Baby, Baby (I Know You're a Lady)" (1970); and 1967's "My Elusive Dreams" duet with Tammy Wynette. In later years, Houston dueted with Barbara Mandrell on several of her early hits, most notably 1970's "After Closing Time" and 1974's "I Love You, I Love You".

Houston's last Top 10 country hit came in 1974 with "Can't You Feel It".

Houston died of a brain aneurysm in Bossier City some two weeks before his 58th birthday. He had been residing in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. He is interred in the Rose-Neath Funeral Home Cemetery in Bossier City. Houston is survived by his only child, David Houston, Jr., who currently resides in Shreveport.