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Country singer Charlie Walker remains best remembered for the 1958 honky tonk classic "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down," a song also responsible for launching the career of its composer, then-unknown Harlan Howard. Born in Copeville, TX, on November 2, 1926, Walker began performing in his teens upon the encouragement of his father, a cotton farmer. In 1943, he signed on as a singer and guitarist with Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers, but enlisted in the U.S. Army the following year, serving in Tokyo as a disc jockey for the American Forces Radio Network. Following World War II Walker settled in San Antonio, where he was hired as an on-air personality with local radio outlet KMAC -- famed as "ol' polk salad, cotton-picking, boll-pulling, corn-shucking, snuff-dipping Charlie Walker," he remained with the station for a decade, and grew so popular and influential that in 1981 he was inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame. Despite his renown as a broadcaster, Walker continued performing, ...