# Songwriter Don Gibson dead at 75

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**Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songwriter-don-gibson-dead-at-75/213886/1 "2003-11-18T13:04:27Z")

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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. ☹