
From the 1965 "All Time Favorite Country Songwriter" LP Harlan wrote this Johnny Cash classic ... Harlan Howard was a prolific country music songwriter. He wrote Patsy Cline's hit "I Fall to Pieces," Johnny Cash's "Busted" and hundreds of other popular classic country songs. visit his site at: www.harlanhoward.com short bio: Howard was born in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on a farm in Kentucky. As a child he listened to the Grand Ole Opry radio show. In later years Howard recalled the personal formative influence of country music: "I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of country music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me." Howard completed just nine years of formal education, though he was an avid reader.[2] When he was 12 years of age Harlan began writing songs, "an enthusiasm fueled by an appetite for books and an ear for a telling phrase. After serving as a paratrooper with the United States Army, he went to Los Angeles, California, hoping to sell his music. He did manual labor while writing songs and pushing his finished material. Eventually he sold some of his compositions and, after a few minor successes, his song, "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down", recorded by Charlie Walker, went to No. 2 on the country music charts in late 1958. A year later Ray Price had a major country hit with "Heartaches By The <b>...</b>
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