1 hit, spending six weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in January and February 1966.

[1] Truck-driving songs had been a part of American country music since the late 1940s, and Sovine's label Starday Records had several artists who specialized in the subgenre.

The stress of her husband's frequent absences eventually takes its toll on the marriage, and one day, the trucker returns home to find both gone, without contact information or an explanation.

A departure from her usual comic recordings, Pearl tells the story from the perspective of the manager of the truck stop where the father-son reunion takes place.

The story depicts the woman's friendship with the elder trucker's one-time wife, who had located to the area with her young son when the marriage broke up.

Artists who have covered "Giddyup Go" include Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, Tex Williams, Ferlin Husky, and Australian country singer Nev Nicholls.