Don Gibson dies

[Socialist Christian]

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Don Gibson, who wrote and recorded country songs including I Can't Stop Loving You and Sweet Dreams, has died.

Gibson passed away yesterday at Baptist Hospital, Nashville, at the age of 75.

Gibson sang in a rich baritone and usually wrote about solitude and sadness involving love, earning him the nickname "the sad poet".

Gibson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

Born on April 3, 1928, Gibson was a poor boy from Shelby, North Carolina, who dropped out of school in second grade. But he became a songwriting genius who sold millions of records.

Between 1958 and the mid-1960s, Gibson's records and his compositions, including Sweet Dreams and Oh Lonesome Me, were hits for himself and many other performers.

I Can't Stop Loving You was recorded by more than 700 artists, but Ray Charles had the big pop version in 1962.

Gibson and others helped create the "Nashville Sound" in the 1960s.

[Ferretherder]

1. Even though I was an 'Art Rock' snob in the seventies,...

...a 'New Age' and 'Alternative Music' devotee in the eighties, and eclectic, narrow-minded, 'stuck-in-the-past'er' from then till now, one of my all-time favorite songs, to this day, is 'I Can't Stop Loving You', sung by the inimitable Ray Charles....God I love that song. Sad....I never did know who wrote it....till now.

RIP, Don Gibson. You were one helluva songwriter.

[NeonLX]

2. RIP, Don Gibson...

"Sea of Heartbreak" is one of the finest songs of any genre or any time...

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. for a second I thought that read Debbie Gibson

I was like, "oh no, my first love!"

:)