"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
Released	1958
Genre	Country
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Harlan Howard

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

• Billboard year-end top 50 country & western singles of 1958

References