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"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded in December 1957 by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins [5] producing it for RCA Victor in Nashville. Released in 1958, the song topped the country chart for eight non-consecutive weeks. On what became the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. 7. It was Gibson's only Top 10 hit on the pop chart. [6]
Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 [1] – November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician.A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson wrote such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits ("Oh Lonesome Me") from 1957 into the mid-1970s.
"I Can't Stop Loving You" is a popular song written and composed by the country musician Don Gibson from his 1958 album Oh Lonesome Me, who first recorded it on December 3, 1957, for RCA Victor Records. It was released in 1958 as the B-side of "Oh Lonesome Me", becoming a double-sided country hit single.
Nobody's Lonesome for Me; O. Oh, Mama, Come Home (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Jacob Dylan for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams)
"Oh Lonesome Me" was also the highest charting, at No. 8. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the band in 1991. "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine" is a cover of a Bill Monroe song, "Skip a Rope" a cover of a Henson Cargill song, and "Oh Lonesome Me" a cover of a Don Gibson song.
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Oh Lonesome Me is a studio album by American country singer Don Gibson, released in 1958.It is an example of the beginning of the Nashville Sound.On November 17, 1958, it was rated No. 1 on Billboard magazine's "Favorite C&W Albums" based on the magazine's annual poll of country and western disc jockeys.
Some of the album's additional track were cover versions of songs recorded by other music artists. The second track, "The Morning After Baby Let Me Down", was made a hit by its writer Ray Griff. The sixth track, "Oh Lonesome Me", was first recorded by its writer as well, Don Gibson.