Oh Lonesome Me

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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 reached the Top 10 and also topped the country chart. Its B-side was "I Can't Stop Loving You" which became a standard song for unrequited love.[1]

[edit] Cover versions

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There have been numerous covers of this song.

The 1970 album After the Gold Rush by Neil Young contains a much slower and more melancholy version of this song, compared with the original.

In 1989, the Kentucky Headhunters recorded a cover version of "Oh Lonesome Me" on their album Pickin' on Nashville. This cover was released as a single in 1990, reaching a peak of #8 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.

Roger Miller does a cover on Classic Country 1950-1959.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 108–109. ISBN 0-306-80683-5. 


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