Don Gibson Discography

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  A Legend in My Time
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  That Gibson Boy
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  Sweet Dreams
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  Some Favorites Of Mine
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  Oh Lonesome Me
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  No One Stands Alone
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  My God Is Real/I Walk Alone
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  Look Who`s Blue
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  I Wrote A Song
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  Hurtin` Inside/I Love You So Much It Hurts
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  Greatest Hits
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  Girls Guitars And Gibson
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  Don Gibson Unsorted
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  David Allan Coe Presents Don Gibson
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  Anthology
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  Am I That Easy to Forget/Lovin` Lies
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  The Singer The Songwriter 1949 1960

Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can`t Stop Loving You" and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970`s.

Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina, into a poor working-class family, and he dropped out of school in the second grade.

His first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948.

In 1957, he journeyed to Nashville to record "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can`t Stop Loving You" for RCA. The afternoon session resulted in a double-sided hit on both the country and pop charts.

"Oh Lonesome Me" set the pattern for a long series of other RCA hits. "Blue Blue Day" was a number 1 hit in 1958. Later singles included "Look Who`s Blue" (1958), "Don`t Tell Me Your Troubles" (1959), "Sea of Heartbreak" (1961); "Lonesome No. 1," "I Can Mend Your Broken Heart" (1962), and "Woman (Sensuous Woman)", a Number one country hit in 1972.

Gibson recorded a series of successful duets with Dottie West in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the most successful of which were the Number two country hit "Rings of Gold" (1969) and the top 10 hit "There`s a Story Goin` Round" (1970). West and Gibson released and album together in 1969, titled Dottie and Don. He also recorded several duets with Sue Thompson among these being the Top 40 hits, "I Think They Call It Love" (1972), "Good Old Fashioned Country Love" (1974) and "Oh, How Love Changes" (1975)

A talented songwriter, Gibson was nicknamed "The Sad Poet," because he frequently wrote songs that told of loneliness and lost love. His song "I Can`t Stop Loving You", has been recorded by over 700 artists, most notably by Ray Charles in 1962. He also wrote and recorded "Sweet Dreams," a song that would become a major 1963 crossover hit for Patsy Cline. Roy Orbison was a great fan of Gibson`s songwriting, and in 1967, he recorded an album of his songs simply titled Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson. Additionally, Gibson`s wide appeal is shown in Neil Young`s recorded version of "Oh Lonesome Me" on his 1970 album After the Gold Rush, which is one of the very few songs Young has recorded that was not penned by himself.

Gibson was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973, and in 2001, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

On his passing in 2003, he was buried in the Sunset Cemetery in his hometown of Shelby, North Carolina.