DON GIBSON COUNTRY CLASSIC 78 SWEET DREAMS / THE ROAD OF LIFE ALONE UK MGM 909 E
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Aug 19, 2024
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Nov 19, 2023
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COUNTRY CLASSIC FROM THE DON GIBSON ON A UK MGM 78
SWEET DREAMS
b/w THE ROAD OF LIFE ALONE
Born Donald Eugene Gibson in Shelby, North Carolina, Gibson got his start with a local band called the Sons of the Soil on Shelby station WOHS. In 1949, he made his first recording with them: a Mercury side called “Automatic Mama.” By 1952 he had gotten a job at Knoxville’s WNOX and was recording for Columbia. His recordings for this label were not commercially successful, but he was discovering he had a knack for songwriting. By 1955, Gibson had written his first masterpiece, “Sweet Dreams,” later to be a hit for Gibson, Faron Young, and Patsy Cline. It won him a songwriter’s contract with Acuff-Rose Publications and a recording deal with MGM. Then, in 1957, while living in a trailer park north of Knoxville, he wrote his other two career songs on the same day: “Oh Lonesome Me” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” (The latter would eventually be recorded more than 700 times by singers in many music genres and sell more than 30 million records worldwide.)DISC DETAILS
UK MGM 9095 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
CONDITION :- Excellent
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