For the Don Gibson album, see Oh Lonesome Me (album).
"Oh Lonesome Me"
Single by Don Gibson
from the album Oh Lonesome Me
B-side
"I Can't Stop Loving You"
Written
June 7, 1957 (1957-06-07)[1][2]
Published
February 17, 1958 Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc.[3]
Released
December 1957 (1957-12)
Recorded
December 3, 1957 (1957-12-03)[4]
Studio
RCA Studio B, Nashville, TN
Genre
Country
Length
2:26
Label
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)
Don Gibson
Producer(s)
Chet Atkins
Don Gibson singles chronology
"Sweet Dreams" (1956)
"Oh Lonesome Me" (1957)
"Blue Blue Day" (1958)
"Oh Lonesome Me"
Single by The Kentucky Headhunters
from the album Pickin' on Nashville
B-side
"My Daddy Was a Milkman"
Released
May 1990
Genre
Country rock, rockabilly, rock and roll, southern rock
Length
3:12
Label
Mercury
Songwriter(s)
Don Gibson
Producer(s)
The Kentucky Headhunters
The Kentucky Headhunters singles chronology
"Dumas Walker" (1990)
"Oh Lonesome Me" (1990)
"Rock 'n' Roll Angel" (1990)
"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded in December 1957 by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins[5] producing it for RCA Victor in Nashville. Released in 1958, the song topped the country chart for eight non-consecutive weeks. On what became the Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at No. 7. It was Gibson's only Top 10 hit on the pop chart.[6] Its B-side was "I Can't Stop Loving You", which peaked at No. 7 on the C&W Jockey charts and became a standard song about unrequited love.[7]
The vocal backings on both songs were provided by the Jordanaires.
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^"Card .0786". vcc.copyright.gov. Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
^"78/45 Singles - Don Gibson Discography". patsyclinediscography.com. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
^Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 10 - Tennessee Firebird: American country music before and after Elvis. [Part 2]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.
^Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
^Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll ((2nd Ed.) ed.). New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN 978-0-306-80683-4.
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