Don Gibson

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Works

3

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Film & TV

Shelby, North Carolina, USA

Don Gibson 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Gibson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

• Opry Video Classics: Hall of Fame — Self (archive footage)2007
• Opry Video Classics: Duets — Self (archive footage)2007
• Opry Video Classics : Legends — Self (archive footage)2007
• Musikladen — Self1972
• From Nashville With Music1969
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961
• The Dick Clark Show — Self1958
• The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: Flashback to 1973 — Self

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1928-04-03

Active to

2003-11-17

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

134,604

Total plays

909,421

Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American country musician. Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina into a poor working-class family, he dropped out of school in the second grade. Gibson's first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948. Among his greatest hits were "Oh Lonesome Me" (later recorded by both Ray Charles and Neil Young) and "Blue Blue Day" (both No. 1 hits in 1958); "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" (1959); "Sea o

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Gibson

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Shelby

Place of death

Nashville

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

country music

Instrument

voice

Image

Don Gibson.png

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