You Pick Me Up and Put Me Down

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“You Pick Me Up and Put Me Down”
Single by Dottie West from the album Special Delivery
Released	October 1979
Format	Album
Genre	Countrypolitan
Length	2:44
Label	United Artists
Dottie West singles chronology
"All I Ever Need Is You" 1979 "You Pick Me Up and Put Me Down" 1979 "A Lesson in Leaving" 1980

"You Pick Me Up and Put Me Down"' is the name of a popular Country music song, made popular by Dottie West in late 1979.

This single is a very important single in Dottie West's career. It showed that West completely changed the type of material she recorded. West, who had been a popular Country music singer since 1963, had always recorded Nashville Sound or harder Country than this. However, around this time, West decided to completely change the type of material she was recording. This new material she was recording was lighter, softer Country Pop or Countrypolitan material. This was the more popular type of style Country singers were singing, and without doubt West wanted to remain on top of her game.

The single was released in October 1979, and within a matter of months, the song reached the Top 15 on the Country charts, peaking at #12 on Billboard, but reached the Top 10 on Cashbox, at #10. This brought West back as a solo artist, considering her chart success almost vanished in 1976, until Kenny Rogers revitalized her career for a string of hit duets between 1978 and 1979. The hit song marked the future Countrypolitan hits to come for West, including the biggest hit of her career "A Lesson in Leaving". The song was released on her 1980 hit album Special Delivery, which included two other hits by West.

"You Pick Me Up and Put Me Down" has been featured on West's most popular compilation albums including her Greatest Hits album, released in 1992, after her death in a car accident a year before.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	10
U.S. Adult Contemporary Tracks Chart	50