"Reconsider Me" is a country/soul ballad written by Margaret Lewis and Mira Smith. The best known version is by American country music artist Narvel Felts

Narvel Felts

Narvel Felts is an American country music singer. Known for his soaring tenor and high falsetto, Felts enjoyed his greatest success during the 1970s, most famously 1975's "Reconsider Me."-Career:...

. Released in 1975, it was the first single from his album Narvel Felts. The song peaked at number 2 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart. It also reached number 1 on the RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

Country Tracks chart in Canada.

Johnny Adams

Johnny Adams

Laten John Adams , known as Johnny Adams, was an American blues, jazz and gospel singer, known as "The Tan Canary" for the multi-octave range of his singing voice, his swooping vocal mannerisms and falsetto...

's 1969 version was his biggest hit, peaking at #8 on the American R&B charts and #28 on the pop charts. In the same year Ray Pillow

Ray Pillow

Ray Pillow is an American country music singer who has also worked as a music publisher and A&R representative. In his career, he has charted eighteen times on the Billboard country singles charts, with his highest-peaking song being the #9 "I'll Take the Dog," a duet with Jean Shepard...

's country version hit #38 on the country charts.

Reconsider Me was the title track of a 1971 album by John Wesley Ryles

John Wesley Ryles

John Wesley Ryles is an American country music artist. He made his debut in 1968 with the single "Kay", a Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts, and the title track to his debut album for Columbia Records.Ryles later recorded one album, Reconsider Me, for the Plantation label,...

, and as a single it hit #39 on the country charts.

In 2009 Louisiana bluesman Bryan Lee

Bryan Lee

Bryan Lee is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also known by the nickname braille blues daddy and has been a fixture on Bourbon Street scene since the 1980s....

covered the song on his album My Lady Don't Love My Lady.

Johnny Adams

Chart (1969)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles	8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	28

Ray Pillow

Chart (1969)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	38

John Wesley Ryles I

Chart (1971)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	39

Narvel Felts

Chart (1975)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	67
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1