Don Gibson
Don Gibson was a country singer-songwriter nicknamed “the Sad Poet” for his songs of loneliness and lost love. One of country music's most enduring tunesmiths, he wrote standards recorded by hundreds of artists across genres while sustaining his own long career as a hitmaking performer.
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- Born April 3, 1928, in Shelby, North Carolina; died November 17, 2003, in Nashville.
- Reportedly wrote “Oh Lonesome Me” and “I Can't Stop Loving You” on the same day in 1957.
- “Oh Lonesome Me” (1958) topped the country chart for eight weeks and crossed over to pop.
- “I Can't Stop Loving You” became a standard cut by hundreds of artists, including Ray Charles's 1962 hit version.
- Wrote “Sweet Dreams,” later a signature hit for Patsy Cline.
- Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973.
- Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
