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Donald Eugene "Don" Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician. A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson penned such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits from 1957 into the early 1970s.
Don Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina, into a poor working-class family, and he dropped out of school in the second grade.
His first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948.
In 1957, he journeyed to Nashville to record "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You" for RCA. The afternoon session resulted in a double-sided hit on both the country and pop charts.
"Oh Lonesome Me" set the pattern for a long series of other RCA hits. "Blue Blue Day", recorded prior to "Oh, Lonesome Me" was a number 1 hit in 1958. Later singles included "Look Who's Blue" (1958), "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" (1959), "Sea of Heartbreak" (1961); "Lonesome No. 1", "I Can Mend Your Broken Heart" (1962), and "Woman (Sensuous Woman)", a number one country hit in 1972.
Actors: George Jones (actor), Tammy Wynette (actress), Merle Haggard (actor), Leo G. Carroll (actor), Charley Pride (actor), Marilyn Maxwell (actress), Bill Anderson (actor), D.J. Fontana (actor), Marty Robbins (actor), Buck Owens (actor), The Jordanaires (actor), Gordon Stoker (actor), Jose Gonzales-Gonzales (actor), Robert Patrick (writer), Robert Patrick (producer),
Plot: In this FICTIONAL film, filled with FICTIONAL people doing FICTIONAL things, Mabel ('Marilyn Maxwell' (qv)) and Arnold ('Leo G. Carroll' (qv)), a couple of sophisticated swells from New York City, are on one of their annual 'See American First' tours. They are traveling bu auto and get stranded on a road in a rural part of Tennessee. Marty Robbins ('Marty Robbins' (qv)) and his musicians and crew, en route to Nashville, stop their bus, help them get on their way and give them tickets to the Grand Ole Opry, which Mabel thinks is a grand old opera. Arnold becomes fascinated by the country music and accepts an offer from Marty to take a trip with him and his musicians. Along the way, Arnold becomes the manager of Jose Gonzales-Gonzales ('Jose Gonzales-Gonzales' (qv)), who has decided he is a show producer. The group then engages in the production of a country-western music show.
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Even tho you took the twinkle out of my eyes
I will always be in love with you my darling even tho I sit and wonder if I'm wise
Since the day that you first told me that you love me
I have been head over heels in love with you
Now you say our little romance has to end dear
Now I walk the floor and wonder what I'll do
[ guitar ]
There was a time when in my heart I didn't doubt you
Now I'm never sure of what you say or do
For everytime time I try to I put my arms around you
Something tells me that you're not the same ole you