Please Help Me, I 'm Falling - Wikipedia Please Help Me, I 'm Falling This article is about the song. For the album, see Please Help Me, I 'm Falling ( album ). `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' Single by Hank Locklin from the album Please Help Me, I 'm Falling B - side `` My Old Home Town '' Released February 1960 Genre Country Length 2 : 21 Label RCA Victor Songwriter ( s ) Don Robertson Hal Blair Producer ( s ) Chet Atkins Hank Locklin singles chronology `` Blues in Advance '' ( 1959 ) `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' ( 1960 ) `` One Step Ahead of My Past '' ( 1961 ) `` Blues in Advance '' ( 1959 ) `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' ( 1960 ) `` One Step Ahead of My Past '' ( 1961 ) `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' is a 1960 song written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair and first recorded by Hank Locklin. The single was Locklin 's most successful recording and was his second number one on the country charts. `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' spent fourteen weeks at the top spot and spent nine months on the country chart and crossed over to the Hot 100 peaking at number eight. Contents 1 Chart performance 2 Answer record 3 Cover versions 4 References Chart performance Chart ( 1960 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) US Billboard Hot 100 8 U.K. Singles Chart 9 Norway VG Lista Answer record Later in 1960, Skeeter Davis had a hit with an answer record entitled, `` ( I Ca n't Help You ) I 'm Falling Too '' which peaked at number two for three weeks on the Hot C&W Sides charts and number thirty - nine on the Hot 100. Cover versions On August 1, 1967, Charley Pride covered the song. His version was not released as a single, and remained unreleased until it was included on his 1997 album The Essential Charley Pride. In 1973, John Fogerty covered the song on his first solo album, Blue Ridge Rangers. In 1978, Janie Fricke released a cover version of the song as `` Please Help Me ( I 'm Fallin ' in Love with You ) '' and took it to number 12 on the country charts. Unlike Locklin 's piano - based, bright mid-tempo version, Fricke 's version is a ballad in the country pop vein. In 1989, Kirsty MacColl covered the song as b - side to her single `` Days ''. In 1993, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette recorded their version of `` Please Help Me ( I 'm Fallin ' in Love with You ) '' for their album, Honky Tonk Angels, although Loretta herself recording a duet with Conway Twitty from the 1987 Heartland Music album. In 1996, Puff Johnson recorded a version of `` Please Help Me ( I 'm Fallin ' in Love with You ) '' for her album, Miracle. Gladys Knight covered the song on her 2001 album `` At Last ''. In 2007, David Ball covered the song in his album, Heartaches by the Number. In 2008, Patty Loveless covered the song in her album, Sleepless Nights. References ^ Jump up to : Gilliland, John ( 1969 ). `` Show 10 - Tennessee Firebird : American country music before and after Elvis. ( Part 2 ) '' ( audio ). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 303. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 376. Jump up ^ `` Hank Locklin -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot Country Songs for Hank Locklin. Jump up ^ `` Hank Locklin -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot 100 for Hank Locklin. Jump up ^ Guinness World Records British Hit Singles 15th Edition. London, UK : Guinness World Records Limited. 2002. p. 301. ISBN 0 - 85112 - 187 - X. Jump up ^ `` norwegiancharts.com - Hank Locklin - Please Help Me, I 'm Falling ''. norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 19 February 2012. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 100. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits : Eighth Edition. Record Research. p. 164. Jump up ^ `` Original versions of Please Help Me I 'm Falling by Charley Pride ''. SecondHandSongs. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 26. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2008 ). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 151. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 177 - 2. Preceded by `` He 'll Have to Go '' by Jim Reeves Billboard Hot C&W Sides number - one single May 16 - August 15, 1960 Succeeded by `` Alabam '' by Cowboy Copas Preceded by `` The Battle of New Orleans '' by Johnny Horton Billboard Hot C&W Sides number - one single of the year 1960 Succeeded by `` I Fall to Pieces '' by Patsy Cline Janie Fricke Studio albums It Ai n't Easy Black and White Notable singles `` Come a Little Bit Closer '' ( with Johnny Duncan ) `` Please Help Me I 'm Falling ( In Love with You ) '' `` I 'll Love Away Your Troubles for Awhile '' `` Down to My Last Broken Heart '' `` Pride '' `` I 'll Need Someone to Hold Me ( When I Cry ) '' `` Do Me with Love '' `` Do n't Worry ' bout Me Baby '' `` It Ai n't Easy Bein ' Easy '' `` You Do n't Know Love '' `` He 's a Heartache ( Looking for a Place to Happen ) '' `` Tell Me a Lie '' `` Let 's Stop Talkin ' About It '' `` If the Fall Do n't Get You '' `` Your Heart 's Not in It '' `` The First Word in Memory Is Me '' `` She 's Single Again '' `` Somebody Else 's Fire '' `` Easy to Please '' `` Always Have, Always Will '' `` When a Woman Cries '' Guest singles `` On My Knees '' ( with Charlie Rich ) `` A Place to Fall Apart '' ( with Merle Haggard ) Related articles Discography Columbia Records Larry Gatlin Tommy Hunter Skeeter Davis Solo albums I 'll Sing You a Song and Harmonize Too ( 1959 ) Here 's the Answer ( 1961 ) Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World ( 1963 ) Singles `` ( I Ca n't Help You ) I 'm Falling Too '' `` The End of the World '' `` For Loving You '' `` Fuel to the Flame '' `` Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now '' `` The Hands You 're Holding Now '' `` He Says the Same Things to Me '' `` Homebreaker '' `` I Ca n't Believe That It 's All Over '' `` I Ca n't Stay Mad at You '' `` I 'm a Lover ( Not a Fighter ) '' `` I 'm Saving My Love '' `` Last Date '' `` Lost to a Geisha Girl '' `` My Last Date ( with You ) '' `` One Tin Soldier '' `` Optimistic '' `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' `` Set Him Free '' `` Sun Glasses '' `` There 's a Fool Born Every Minute '' `` What Does It Take ( To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied ) '' `` Where I Ought to Be '' Related Discography The Davis Sisters `` I Forgot More Than You 'll Ever Know '' Homer and Jethro Henry D. `` Homer '' Haynes Kenneth C. `` Jethro '' Burns Studio albums Homer and Jethro Go West ( 1963 ) with Nashville String Band The Nashville String Band ( 1969 ) Down Home ( 1970 ) Strung Up ( 1971 ) Identified ! ( 1971 ) The Bandit ( 1972 ) World 's Greatest Melodies ( 1972 ) Singles `` Baby, It 's Cold Outside '' `` Hernando 's Hideaway '' `` Please Help Me, I 'm Falling '' This 1960s country song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Question: who wrote please help me i'm falling
Answer: Don Robertson