"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins producing for RCA-Victor in Nashville in 1958. Donald Eugene Gibson ( April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American Songwriter Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins ( June 20, 1924 &ndash June 30, 2001) was an influential Guitarist and Record producer RCA Records (originally The Victor Talking Machine Company, then RCA Victor is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The song reached the Top 10 and also topped the country chart. The Top Forty or Top 40 is a music industry shorthand for the currently most-popular songs in a particular genre. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Its B-side was "I Can't Stop Loving You" which became a standard song for unrequited love. " I Can't Stop Loving You " is a Popular song written and composed by country singer songwriter and musician Don Gibson, who first recorded it on December [1]
Cover versions
There have been numerous covers of this song.
The 1970 album After the Gold Rush by Neil Young contains a much slower and more melancholy version of this song, compared with the original. After the Gold Rush is the third album by Neil Young, and one of four high-profile albums released by each partner of Crosby Stills Nash & Young Neil Percival Young OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto Ontario) is a Canadian Singer-songwriter, Musician
In 1989, the Kentucky Headhunters recorded a cover version of "Oh Lonesome Me" on their album Pickin' on Nashville. The Kentucky Headhunters are an American Country rock group whose early albums were embraced by both country and rock fans Pickin' on Nashville is the debut album of American Country rock band The Kentucky Headhunters. This cover was released as a single in 1990, reaching a peak of #8 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States
Roger Miller does a cover on Classic Country 1950-1959.
Footnotes
- ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed. ), New York, N. Y. : Da Capo Press, p. 108–109. ISBN 0-306-80683-5.
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