Don Gibson Oh Lonesome Me, 1957 STEREO hit

To order this mix on CD along with other great stereo country go to www.ericrecords.com. Tell them RadioBob sent you. Don Gibson scored big in both pop and country in 1957 with this two sided smash. The flip was, "I Can't Stop Loving You." He was born Donald Eugene Gibson on April 3, 1928 in Shelby, North Carolina. His high school years were filled with music, and by the age of 16 he was leading a group that had a show on WHOS in Shelby, NC. His first recordings were made for the Mercury label in 1949; the following year he made his first sides for RCA on October 17, 1950 at the studio of station WSOC in Charlotte. In 1953 Don joined the "Barn Dance." On KNOX. On September 12, 1955 Don recorded the original version of "Sweet Dreams," for MGM records. He wrote the song, but his version was not a hit. By this time there were many blue days, and Gibson had begun reflecting on them, to say the least. .One afternoon he sat in his home in the woods north of Knoxville, waiting for the new record to come out. And in one swoop—one blaze of musical inspiration—wrote "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You." Chet Atkins, then RCA music director, re-signed Don Gibson, and on June 26, 1957 "Blue, Blue Day " in Nashville. One afternoon Gibson sat in his home in the woods north of Knoxville, waiting for the new record to come out, and in one swoop—one blaze of musical inspiration—wrote "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You." Chet Atkins recalls that, "Don used a heavy bass drum beat on 'Oh Lonesome Me,' an effect I had never used before. We placed a microphone in front of the bass drum and turned it up. I played the lead guitar, using a chorus that Don had hummed to me a few moments earlier." On December 3, 1957. Ole Lonesome Me was recorded. Chet told Don that "I Can't Stop Loving You" was “not much of a song, but we can put it on the B-side, How wrong he was…and then came Ray Charles.

Added 7 Jun 2026