Pick Me Up on Your Way Down

"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" is a song written by Harlan Howard, sung by Charlie Walker, and released on the Columbia label.

"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down"
Single by Charlie Walker
from the album Greatest Hits
B-side"Two Empty Arms"
Released1958
Recorded1958
GenreCountry
Length2:25
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Harlan Howard
Charlie Walker singles chronology
"Take My Hand"
(1957)
"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down"
(1958)
"I'll Catch You When You Fall"
(1959)

Harlan Howard, while living in a frame house in Gardena, California, played the song for another songwriter, Lance Guynes. Guynes offered to send the song to Nashville, and shortly thereafter, Howard received a call from Ray Price saying he loved the song. There was a fight between Price, Ernest Tubb, and Charlie Walker over who would get to record the song. They ultimately agreed to give it to Walker, "because he needed a hit."[1]

In October 1958, the song peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's weekly country and western chart.[2] It spent 22 weeks on the charts and was also ranked No. 44 on Billboard's 1958 year-end country and western chart.[2][3]

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References

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  1. ^ Nicholas Dawidoff (2011). In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 32. ISBN 978-0307807083.
  2. ^ a b Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 342. ISBN 0823076326.
  3. ^ "Chart Toppers of 1958". The Billboard. December 15, 1958. p. 44.