"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" | ||||
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| Single by Charlie Walker | ||||
| from the album Greatest Hits | ||||
| B-side | "Two Empty Arms" | |||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Recorded | 1958 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:25 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Harlan Howard | |||
| Charlie Walker singles chronology | ||||
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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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 342. ISBN 0823076326.
- ^ "Chart Toppers of 1958". The Billboard. December 15, 1958. p. 44.