His most prominent achievement was writing the 1966 U.S. Top 10 hit "Along Comes Mary" for the Association. Claudia Ford, wife of Association producer Curt Boettcher, claimed that Almer wrote "Along Comes Mary" as a slow song. Boettcher helped Almer arrange the tune, sang the vocal on the demo and accelerated the tempo. That version, as provided to the Association, became the group's breakthrough single from their debut album, which Boettcher produced. The two also co-wrote "Message of Our Love", another song on the same album. After the success of "Along Comes Mary", Almer was featured alongside Frank Zappa, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, and Brian Wilson on "", a 1967 CBS News documentary presented by Leonard Bernstein. Almer's sole commercial release under his own name was "Degeneration Gap", a single released by Warner Bros. in 1969.