About Harlan
His Songs
He wrote more than four thousand of them. These are the ones the world kept singing back.
Start here
Six songs to start with
Every one of them started the same way. A man at a desk, an empty piece of paper and an interesting title.
01
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
02
Heartaches by the Number
03
I Fall to Pieces
04
Busted
05
Why Not Me
06
Blame It on Your Heart
The fifties and sixties
29 recordings
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Charlie Walker
Heartaches by the Number
Ray Price
Above and Beyond
Buck Owens
I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today
Warren Smith
Everglades
The Kingston Trio
Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)
Buck Owens
I Fall to Pieces
Patsy Cline
The Blizzard
Jim Reeves
Foolin' Around
Buck Owens
Odds and Ends (Bits and Pieces)
Warren Smith
The Key's in the Mailbox
Freddie Hart
Mary Ann Regrets
Burl Ives
Sally Was a Good Old Girl
Bobby Darin
You Took Her off My Hands
Ray Price
Busted
Ray Charles
You Comb Her Hair
George Jones
Another Bridge to Burn
Little Jimmy Dickens
Your Heart Turned Left
George Jones
He Called Me Baby
Patsy Cline
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
Buck Owens
Too Many Rivers
Brenda Lee
She's Gone Gone Gone
Lefty Frizzell
Evil on Your Mind
Jan Howard
The Streets of Baltimore
Bobby Bare
The Hurtin's All Over
Connie Smith
Life Turned Her That Way
Mel Tillis
The Chokin' Kind
Waylon Jennings
I Wish I Felt This Way at Home
Dolly Parton
The Chokin' Kind
Joe Simon
The seventies and eighties
17 recordings
She's a Little Bit Country
Dean Martin
He Called Me Baby
Candi Staton
Yours Love
Willie Nelson
The Deepening Snow
Connie Smith
No Charge
Melba Montgomery
She Called Me Baby
Charlie Rich
Busted
John Conlee
I Don't Remember Loving You
John Conlee
I Don't Know a Thing About Love
Conway Twitty
Why Not Me
The Judds
Somebody Should Leave
Reba McEntire
Too Many Rivers
The Forester Sisters
Somewhere Tonight
Highway 101
Life Turned Her That Way
Ricky Van Shelton
Never Mind
Nanci Griffith
Above and Beyond
Rodney Crowell
I'm Down to My Last Cigarette
k.d. lang
The nineties and after
20 recordings
She's Gone Gone Gone
Glen Campbell
These Lips Don't Know How to Say Goodbye
Doug Stone
Don't Tell Me What to Do
Pam Tillis
All I Can Be
Collin Raye
Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)
The Mavericks
Blame It on Your Heart
Patty Loveless
Baby It's You
Hank Flamingo
Family Reunion
Wade Hayes
I Don't Believe That's How You Feel
Tracy Byrd
I've Got a Funny Feeling
George Strait
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail
Sara Evans
How Long
Connie Smith
Time Won't Tell
Sara Evans
Come Back (When It Ain't Raining)
Trisha Yearwood
Let's See How Far You Get
BR549
Scary Old World
Radney Foster
I Fall to Pieces
Natalie Cole
The Chokin' Kind
Joss Stone
Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
Martina McBride
He Called Me Baby
Lee Ann Womack