"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down"
Single by Charlie Walker
Released1958
GenreCountry
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Harlan Howard

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

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

  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. 1 2 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.
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