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 1970s.
Don 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. "Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins producing for RCA-Victor in Nashville in 1958. The song reached the Top 10 and also topped the country chart. Its B-side was "I Can't Stop Loving You" which became a standard song for unrequited love. [1] The song was the first of several crossovers featuring Gibson's blend of rockabilly and the Nashville sound. The most popular of the crossovers, it reached the pop top 10 in Billboard.
There have been numerous covers of this song.
Southern Culture on the Skids released a cover.Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was.