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(I'd Like to Be In) Charlie's Shoes

"Charlie's Shoes"
Single by Billy Walker
B-side "Wild Colonial Boy"
Released February 1962
Format 7"
Recorded November 20, 1961
Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length 2:14
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Roy Baham
Producer(s) Don Law
Billy Walker singles chronology
"Funny How Time Slips Away"
(1961)
"Charlie's Shoes"
(1962)
"Willie the Weeper"
(1962)
"Funny How Time Slips Away"
(1961)
"Charlie's Shoes"
(1962)
"Willie the Weeper"
(1962)

"Charlie's Shoes", also known as "(I'd Like to Be In) Charlie's Shoes", is a song written by Roy Baham released as a single in 1962 by Billy Walker. It was the only number-one country hit of Walker's career, spending two non-consecutive weeks at the top spot and 23 weeks on the chart.

Guy Mitchell also released a version in 1962. It failed to make Me the Billboard Hot 100 stopping well outside the chart at # 110. The song has also been cut by other artists such as Eddy Arnold's version in 1962 and a cover by Faron Young.



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