Oh Lonesome Me
| "Oh Lonesome Me" | ||||
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| Single by Don Gibson | ||||
| from the album Oh Lonesome Me | ||||
| B-side | "I Can't Stop Loving You" | |||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:26 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Writer(s) | Don Gibson | |||
| Producer | Chet Atkins | |||
| Don Gibson singles chronology | ||||
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"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins producing for RCA Victor in Nashville in 1958. The song topped the country chart for eight non consecutive weeks in addition to reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] It's B-side was "I Can't Stop Loving You", which peaked at #7 on the C&W Jockey charts and became a standard song about unrequited love.[2]
[edit] Cover versions
- 1961: Johnny Cash (went to #13)[3]
- 1962: Craig Douglas released a cover version in Great Britain on Decca Records under the production of Bunny Lewis.[4] Douglas' version entered the British singles charts on October 20, 1962, stayed there for twelve weeks and the best position was as # 11.[5]
- 1970: Neil Young covered the song on his album After the Gold Rush, turning Gibson's lighthearted lament into a retro dirge (Stephen Stills is the back-up voice at the end of the third verse)
- 1970: Stonewall Jackson (went to #63)[6]
- 1970: We Five on their album Catch the Wind[7]
- 1975: Loggins and Messina (went to #92), which was the duo's only entry on the country music charts[8]
- 1990: The Kentucky Headhunters (went to #8), which was the band's highest-peaking single[9]
Several other artists have covered the song for their albums as a "filler" or "album cut". A group of child singers who record under the name The Countdown Kids covered the song for a children's country music CD, which sounds very similar to Gibson's original recording.
Former The Brady Bunch child star Maureen McCormick performed the song in the Barbara Mandrell TV biopic Get To The Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story.
[edit] References
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 157. ISBN 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 0-306-80683-5.
- ^ Whitburn, p. 84
- ^ Chart Stats - Images - Singles - 3279.jpg
- ^ Chart Stats - Craig Douglas - Og Lonesome Me
- ^ Whitburn, p. 203
- ^ We Five, Catch the Wind Retrieved March 2, 2012.
- ^ Whitburn, p. 243
- ^ Whitburn, p. 223
| Preceded by "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" by Johnny Cash |
C&W Best Sellers in Stores number one single April 14, 1958 - May 26, 1958 June 16, 1958 |
Succeeded by "All I Have to Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers "Guess Things Happen That Way" by Johnny Cash |
| Preceded by "Gone" by Ferlin Husky |
Billboard C&W Best Sellers in Stores number-one single of the year 1958 |
Succeeded by "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton |
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- Loggins and Messina songs
- The Kentucky Headhunters songs
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