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((short description|American country music songwriter (1927–2002)))
((for|the sociologist|Perry Howard))

((Use mdy dates|date=August 2020))
((More citations needed|date=March 2018))
((Infobox musical artist
| name                  = Harlan Howard
| image                 =
| birth_name            = Harlan Perry Howard
| birth_date            = ((birth date|1927|9|8)) 
| birth_place           = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.
| death_date            = ((death date and age|2002|3|3|1927|9|8))
| death_place           = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
| genre                 = [[Country music|Country]]
| label                 = [[Capitol Records|Capitol]], [[RCA Records|RCA]], [[Monument Records|Monument]], Nugget
| occupation            = Songwriter
| years_active          = 1958–1997
| associated_acts       = [[Jan Howard]], [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]]
))

'''Harlan Perry Howard''' (September 8, 1927 – March 3, 2002) was an American songwriter, principally in [[country music]]. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote many popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists.<ref name=LAT>((cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/05/local/me-howard5|last=Boucher|first=Geoff|title=Harlan Howard, 74; Prolific Songwriter|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 5, 2002|access-date=March 9, 2019))</ref>

==Career==
Howard was born on September 8, 1927, in [[Detroit]], Michigan, and grew up on a farm in [[Michigan]]. As a child, he listened to the [[Grand Ole Opry]] radio show. In later years, Howard recalled the personal formative influence of country music:

<blockquote>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.<ref name=wadey>((cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harlan-howard-9137791.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220509/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/harlan-howard-9137791.html |archive-date=May 9, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|website=independent.co.uk|title=Obituary: Harlan Howard|first=Paul|last= Wadey|date=2002-03-05|publisher=[[The Independent]]|location=London))Retrieved 2019-03-09.</ref></blockquote>

Howard completed only nine years of formal education, though he was an avid reader.<ref name=website>[http://www.harlanhoward.com/bios/Harlan-Howard.htm ‘Harlan Howard’] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202160109/http://www.harlanhoward.com/bios/Harlan-Howard.htm |date=December 2, 2008 )), Harlan Howard web-site.</ref> When he was 12 years of age, he began writing songs, "an enthusiasm fueled by an appetite for books and an ear for a telling phrase."<ref name=wadey />

After serving as a paratrooper with the [[United States Army]], he went to Los Angeles, California, hoping to sell his music.<ref name=LAT/>

Howard 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 (musician)|Charlie Walker]], went to No. 2 on the country music charts in late 1958. A year later [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]] had a major country hit with "[[Heartaches By The Number]]". Simultaneously, a pop version of the song performed by [[Guy Mitchell]] went to No. 1 on the [[pop chart]]. Buoyed by these two major hits, Howard moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee]], in 1960. Bringing along a large portfolio of compositions, he signed a contract with [[Acuff-Rose Music]]. Howard's songs were so immediately successful that, in 1961 alone, he had fifteen of his compositions on the country music charts, earning him ten [[Broadcast Music, Inc.|BMI]] awards. Among his biggest hits was "[[I Fall to Pieces]]", co-written with [[Hank Cochran]] and recorded by [[Patsy Cline]]. Cline and [[Candi Staton]] recorded his "He Called Me Baby", which was later a No. 1 C&W hit for [[Charlie Rich]] as "[[She Called Me Baby]]".

Though not often thought of as a writer of rhythm and blues songs, Howard wrote Joe Simon's No. 1 R&B chart hit "[[The Chokin' Kind]]", a million-selling record in 1969.

Howard also wrote the classic [[Kingston Trio]] song "Everglades", and the song "[[Busted (Harlan Howard song)|Busted]]", originally a hit for both [[Ray Charles]] and [[Johnny Cash]] and later a hit for [[John Conlee]] who used the song to create awareness for [[Feed the Children]]. The song "The Wall" also became a hit for Johnny Cash on his studio album ''[[Orange Blossom Special (album)|Orange Blossom Special]]'', as well as his ''[[Live at Folsom Prison]]'' album.

Howard coined the oft-quoted phrase defining a great country song as Three Chords and the Truth.<ref name=rollingstone>((cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/country-scribe-harlan-howard-dies-20020305|website=rollingstone.com|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]|title=Obituary: Country Scribe Harlan Howard Dies|first=Andrew|last=Dansby|year= 2002))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://countrymusichalloffame.org/content/uploads/2019/05/WM-3-6-Harlan-Howard-Bio.pdf|website=countrymusichalloffame.org|title=Harlan Howard: Three Chords and the Truth|publisher=[[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum]]))</ref>

Howard was inducted into the [[Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 1973, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997, and the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] also in 1997.<ref name=SWHoF>((Cite web |url=https://www.songhall.org/profile/Harlan_Howard |title=Harlan Howard: Songwriters Hall of Fame |website=songhall.org |access-date=March 25, 2018))</ref> He died in Nashville in 2002, at the age of 74, and was buried in [[Nashville City Cemetery]].

On March 3, 2023, [[Willie Nelson]] released his 73rd studio album ''[[I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard]]''. Produced by Buddy Cannon, the album is a tribute to Harlan Howard.

==Discography==
*1961: ''Harlan Howard Sings Harlan Howard''
*1965: ''All Time Favorite Country Songwriter''
*1967: ''Mr. Songwriter''
*1967: ''Down to Earth''
*1971: ''To the Silent Majority with Love''
*1981: ''Singer and Songwriter''

==Song list==
Songs written or co-written by Harlan Howard.<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/20020305_bmi_legend_harlan_howard_dies|last=Oermann|first=Robert K.|title=BMI Legend Harlan Howard Dies|work=[[Broadcast Music, Inc.|BMI]]|date=March 4, 2002|access-date=March 9, 2019))</ref>
*"[[Above and Beyond (song)|Above and Beyond (the Call of Love)]]"
*"[[Blame It on Your Heart]]" <small>(co-written with [[Kostas Lazarides|Kostas]])</small>
*"[[The Blizzard (song)|The Blizzard]]"
*"[[Busted (Harlan Howard song)|Busted]]"
*"[[The Chokin' Kind|Chokin' Kind]]"
*"Call Me Mr. In-Between"
*"Don't Call Me From a Honky Tonk Bar"
*"[[Don't Tell Me What to Do|Don't Tell Me What To Do (I'll Love You Forever If I Want To)]]" <small>(co-written with [[Max D. Barnes]])</small>
*"Everglades"
*"Evil off My Mind"
*"[[Evil on Your Mind]]"
*"[[Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)]]" <small>(co-written with [[Buck Owens]])</small>
*"[[Foolin' Around (Buck Owens song)|Foolin' Round]]" <small>(co-written with Buck Owens)</small>
*"[[She Called Me Baby|He/She Called Me Baby]]"
*"[[She's Gone, Gone, Gone]]"
*"[[Heartaches by the Number]]"
*"[[Heartbreak U.S.A.]]"
*"Hurtin's All Over"
*"I Don't Believe I'll Fall in Love Today"
*"[[I Don't Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song)]]"
*"[[I Don't Remember Loving You]]" <small>(co-written with [[Bobby Braddock|Robert Braddock]])</small>
*"[[I Fall to Pieces]]"
*"[[I Wish I Could Fall in Love Today]]"
*"[[I Won't Forget You (Jim Reeves song)|I Won't Forget You]]"
*"It's All Over" <small>(co-written with [[Jan Howard]])</small>
*"[[I've Got a Tiger By the Tail]]" <small>(co-written with [[Buck Owens]])</small>
*"[[Key's in the Mailbox|The Key's in the Mailbox]]"
*"[[Life Turned Her That Way]]"
*"Mommy For a Day" <small>(co-written with [[Buck Owens]])</small>
*"[[No Charge]]"
*"Odds And Ends"
*"[[Pick Me Up on Your Way Down]]"
*"Sally Was a Good Old Girl"
*"Second Hand Rose" <small>(co-written with Grant Clarke and James Hanley)</small>
*"[[She's a Little Bit Country]]"
*"[[Somebody Should Leave]]" <small>(co-written with Chick Rains)</small>
*"[[Somewhere Tonight]]" <small>(co-written with [[Rodney Crowell]])</small>
*"[[Streets of Baltimore]]" <small>(co-written with [[Tompall Glaser]])</small>
*"[[These Lips Don't Know How to Say Goodbye]]"
*"Three Steps to the Phone (Millions Of Miles)"
*"Time Won't Tell" <small>(co-written with Beth Nielsen Chapman)</small>
*"[[Too Many Rivers]]"
*"Under The Influence Of Love" <small>(co-written with [[Buck Owens]])</small>
*"What A Merry Christmas This Could Be"
*"[[Why Not Me (The Judds song)|Why Not Me]]" <small>(co-written with [[Brent Maher]] and [[Sonny Throckmorton]])</small>
*"You Comb Her Hair" <small>(co-written with [[Hank Cochran]])</small>
*"You Took Him Off My Hands (Now Please Take Him Off My Mind)" <small>(co-written with [[Skeets McDonald]] and [[Wynn Stewart]])</small>
*"Your Heart Turned Left and I Went Right"
*"Yours Love"

==Personal life==
Howard was married numerous times, including to country singer [[Jan Howard]].<ref name=SWHoF/>

==See also==
*''[[Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan]]''
*''[[Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard]]''
*''[[I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard]]''

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*[https://www.songhall.org/profile/Harlan_Howard Songwriters Hall of Fame]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110217100903/http://countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/harlan-howard Howard at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum]

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