Labdad
11-18-2003, 07:04 AM
From today's Nashville Tennessean:
"Country Music Hall of Famer Don Gibson, a hit artist and songwriter who penned classics Sweet Dreams, I Can't Stop Loving You and Oh Lonesome Me, died yesterday of natural causes at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He was 75."
Full text of obit here. (http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/news/archives/03/11/42655622.shtml?Element_ID=42655622)
The obit makes mention of something I had always heard: Gibson supposedly wrote Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You in the same afternoon!!. If true, what a fine day's work. If not, well, it's still a great story and one I will continue to tell.
Rest in peace, Sad Poet. :(
"Country Music Hall of Famer Don Gibson, a hit artist and songwriter who penned classics Sweet Dreams, I Can't Stop Loving You and Oh Lonesome Me, died yesterday of natural causes at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He was 75."
Full text of obit here. (http://www.tennessean.com/entertainment/news/archives/03/11/42655622.shtml?Element_ID=42655622)
The obit makes mention of something I had always heard: Gibson supposedly wrote Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You in the same afternoon!!. If true, what a fine day's work. If not, well, it's still a great story and one I will continue to tell.
Rest in peace, Sad Poet. :(