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" | |||
| Written | June 7, 1957 | |||
| Published | February 17, 1958 Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. | |||
| Released | December 1957 | |||
| Recorded | December 3, 1957 | |||
| Studio | RCA Victor (Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 2:26 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Don Gibson | |||
| Producer(s) | Chet Atkins | |||
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| "Oh Lonesome Me" | ||||
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| 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 | |||
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"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded in December 1957 by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins 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. 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. The vocal backings on both songs were provided by the Jordanaires.