| Pick Me Up on Your Way Down | |
| Cover: | Pick Me Up on Your Way Down (45).png |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Charlie Walker |
| Album: | Greatest Hits |
| B-Side: | Two Empty Arms |
| Released: | 1958 |
| Recorded: | 1958 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:25 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Prev Title: | Take My Hand |
| Prev Year: | 1957 |
| Next Title: | I'll Catch You When You Fall |
| Next Year: | 1959 |
"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 Billboards weekly country and western chart.[2] It spent 22 weeks on the charts and was also ranked No. 44 on Billboards 1958 year-end country and western chart.[2] [3]