2012-07-14 13:24:51 GMT
Looking for an R&B version of this song I knew in the 70s. This was the only version I'd known for along time.Done by a black artist or group. Oh Lonesome Me. Does anyone know the artist? Thanks
Topic: Oh Lonesome Me
2012-07-20 22:04:25 GMT
Is it a recent version. Where have you heard it?
2012-07-22 08:04:22 GMT
The version may be from the 70s or even 60s. I heard it on a Time Life infomercial more than 8 years ago. Thanks for your response.
2012-08-11 16:39:41 GMT
"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. 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.
Cover Versions:-
1961: Johnny Cash (went to #13).
1962: Craig Douglas released a cover version in Great Britain on Decca Records under the production of Bunny Lewis. Douglas' version entered the British singles charts on October 20, 1962, stayed there for twelve weeks and the best position was as # 11.
1966: Trío los Panchos.
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).
1970: We Five on their album Catch the Wind.
1975: Loggins and Messina (went to #92), which was the duo's only entry on the country music charts.
1990: The Kentucky Headhunters (went to #8), which was the band's highest-peaking single.
2009: M. Ward and Lucinda Williams performed it for his album Hold Time.
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood recorded a version of the song.