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Don Gibson: Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

4-CD box (LP-size) with 108-page hardcover book, 217 tracks. Playing time approx. 618 mns.

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  • Interpret: Don Gibson

  • Album titlle: Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode DI
  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127163646

  • weight in Kg 1.15
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Forget Me Don Gibson
02 Funny, Familar, Forgotten Feelings Don Gibson
03 Just To Hurt Me Don Gibson
04 Losing Your Love Don Gibson
05 The Chance I Had To Take Don Gibson
06 Run Along Blues Don Gibson
07 No Doubt About It Don Gibson
08 All My Love Don Gibson
09 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight Don Gibson
10 Where Is Your Heart Tonight Don Gibson
11 This Cold War With You Don Gibson
12 We Live In Two Different Worlds Don Gibson
13 It's A Sin Don Gibson
14 (I'll Let My Heart Break) For A Little While Don Gibson
15 Faded Love Don Gibson
16 Ashes Of Love Don Gibson
17 They'll Never Take Her Love From Me Don Gibson
18 What Locks The Door Don Gibson
19 Headin' Down The Wrong Highway Don Gibson
20 Good Morning, Dear Don Gibson
21 It's A Long, Long Way To Georgia Don Gibson
22 I Just Said Goodbye To My Dreams Don Gibson
23 Low And Lonely Don Gibson
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 You've Still Got A Place In My Heart Don Gibson
02 Everlovin' Never Changing Mind Don Gibson
03 Maiden's Prayer Don Gibson
04 A Thing Called Sadness Don Gibson
05 What Now My Love Don Gibson
06 Half A Man Don Gibson
07 Thoughts Don Gibson
08 I Walk Alone Don Gibson
09 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Don Gibson
10 Someday You'll Call My Name Don Gibson
11 She's Looking Good Don Gibson
12 Times Were Good Don Gibson
13 Don't Rob Another Man's Castle Don Gibson
14 Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You) Don Gibson
15 If My Heart Had Windows Don Gibson
16 Ever Changing Mind Don Gibson
17 You Can't Pick A Rose In December Don Gibson
18 Til I Can't Take It Anymore (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
19 Let's Wait A Little Longer (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
20 Lovin' Season (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
21 How's The World Treating You (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
22 Rings Of Gold (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
23 Sweet Memories (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
24 I Love You Because (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
25 When I Stop Dreaming (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Set Me Free (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
02 I'll Never Stand In Your Way (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
03 Final Examination (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
04 Sweet Dreams (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
05 Solitary Don Gibson
06 I Will Always Don Gibson
07 Montego Bay Don Gibson
08 Blue Darlin' Don Gibson
09 Good Deal, Lucille Don Gibson
10 Am I That Easy To Forget Don Gibson
11 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson
12 One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) Don Gibson
13 Bonaparte's Retreat Don Gibson
14 A Little Bitty Tear Don Gibson
15 Here Comes My Baby Back Again Don Gibson
16 Half As Much Don Gibson
17 I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson
18 Tennessee Waltz Don Gibson
19 Almost Persuaded Don Gibson
20 Four Walls Don Gibson
21 I Found Someone New Don Gibson
22 Snap Your Fingers Don Gibson
23 There's A Story (Goin' 'Round)(& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
24 Lock, Stock, And Teardrops (& DOTTIE WEST) Don Gibson
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Intro Country Style #151 Don Gibson
02 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson
03 I Can't Stop Loving You Don Gibson
04 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER) Don Gibson
05 Set The Wedding (DOTTIE SILLS) Don Gibson
06 Just A Closer Walk With Thee Don Gibson
07 Outro Don Gibson
08 Intro Country Style #157 Don Gibson
09 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson
10 Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go Don Gibson
11 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER) Don Gibson
12 Blue Blue Day Don Gibson
13 Just A Closer Walk With Thee Don Gibson
14 Outro Don Gibson
15 Intro Country Style #177 Don Gibson
16 Give Myself A Party Don Gibson
17 Look Who's Blue Don Gibson
18 Comedy (JUNE CARTER) Don Gibson
19 Sweet Temptation (JUNE CARTER) Don Gibson
20 Where No One Stands Alone Don Gibson
21 Outro Don Gibson
22 Intro Country Style #188 Don Gibson
23 Blue Blue Day Don Gibson
24 Heartbreak Avenue Don Gibson
25 That Lonesome Road (DOLORES DINNING) Don Gibson
26 Raggin' The Keys (DEL WOOD) Don Gibson
27 I'm Climbing Up The Mountain Don Gibson
28 Outro Don Gibson
29 Intro Country Style #232 Don Gibson
30 Blue Blue Day Don Gibson
31 Heartbreak Avenue Don Gibson
32 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER) Don Gibson
33 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson
34 Outro Don Gibson
35 Intro Country Style #251 Don Gibson
36 Oh Lonesome Me Don Gibson
37 If I Can Stay Away Don Gibson
38 Am I That Easy To Forget (SKEETER DAVIS) Don Gibson
39 Just One Time Don Gibson
40 Outro Don Gibson
Don Gibson  As a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Don Gibson has been a major... more
"Don Gibson"

Don Gibson 

As a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Don Gibson has been a major force in country and pop music for over three decades now. His song catalogue includes some 150 or so 'working songs' - songs, that are continually recorded and performed by everybody from Ricky Skaggs to Ray Charles. His discography numbers over 500 items, and includes sidemen as diverse as jazz guitarist Johnny Smith, piano stylist Floyd Cramer, bluegrass banjoist Hubert Davis, and Brazilian guitarists Los Indios Tabajaras. His single releases first appeared on the hit charts in 1957, and continued to roost there through the 1970s. But the golden age of Don Gibson's career was the time from 1957 to 1966, a decade which saw a vertiable explosion of creativity. Every month, it seemed, saw innovative new songs and strong, exciting recordings, double-sided chart hits and crossover pop hits, efforts that literally changed the very landscape of country music. This is the era celebrated on the present collection, the Compact Disc retrospective of the Gibson sound. When Don Gibson signed on with RCA Victor in 1957, he was already a veteran of ten years in the music business.

Born Donald Eugene Gibson in 1932 in Shelby, North Carolina, Don Gibson started playing music with some pool-hall buddies when he was sixteen. Soon he was working with a radio band called 'The Sons Of The Soil,' and in 1949 made his first records with them on the old Mercury label. By 1950 he had formed his own band - the King Cotton Kinfolks - and was playing out of Shelby on a radio network of 25 southeastern stations. More recordings helped him land a job on Knoxville's powerful station WNOX, where he gradually worked his way up to a featured role on 'The Tennessee Barn Dance' and the 'Mid-Day Merry Go-Round'. By the mid-fifties, Don Gibson's music was centered around his singing - warm, smooth Red Foley like baritone - and his sophisticated rhythm guitar playing. [He was, and is, a devotee of jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt.] The summer of 1955 he decided to add songwriting to his resume.

He had tried an occasional song before - in fact, Hank Snow had recorded an early effort - and now he found himself working on one called Sweet Dreams. It was a simple song, but with a haunting melody, and he began featuring it at a local Knoxville club called Esslinger's; it was there that Nashville publisher Wesley Rose heard Don Gibson sing the song, signed him to a songwriting contract with Accuff-Rose, and a record contract with MGM. Rose also got Sweet Dreams to Faron Young, who had a big hit with it in the summer of 1956. Don Gibson's MGM sides, on the other hand, were having little success, and this encourraged him to try to write more songs. It was a good move. One afternoon in June of 1957, while he was living in a trailer back up in the woods of Knoxville, feeling down and out, he tried his hand at doing a lost love ballad. He sang into the tape recorder the words, I Can't Stop Loving You, and said to himself, "That would make a good title." He soon finished that song, then started on another one which he would end up calling Old Lonesome Me.

When he sent the tape to Acuff-Rose to be transcribed and copyrighted, a staff copyist misunderstood the title, and wrote it as Oh Lonesome Me. "It was the kind of a day I could use a few more of." recalls Don Gibson; he had just composed two of the most popular songs in country music history. The songs came at a turning point in his recording career as well. After signing with RCA Victor in January of 1957, he and producer Chet Atkins had tried one session in the traditional country style of Don Gibson's earlier records: fiddle, steel guitar, Hank Williams-sounding songs. Atkins came to Don Gibson and said, "Don, they're not selling. Let's try one more thing. Let's put voices behind it and get rid of the fiddle and steel guitar." A June session had yielded Blue Blue Day done in this new style, and when Chet heard Oh Lonesome Me, he decided to try this as well with the more modern backing. Backed only by rhythm guitar, bass, Floyd Cramer's piano, and Knoxville drummer Troy Hatcher's jazz-like drumming, Don Gibson cut his classic of Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You on the same afternoon of a chilly December day in 1957. It was released at once, hit the charts in February, and remained a double-sided hit for over 30 weeks. It established Don Gibson's ability as a songwriter and as a recording star, and its clean, spare sound helped establish the so-called 'Nashville Sound' as a new style in country music.

This album contains the original versions of these first Gibson hits as well as some of the many that followed it: Look Who's Blue and Give Myself A Party, another two-sided back-to-back hit from 1958; Sweet Dreams, Don Gibson's second recording of this classic, which became a hit in 1960; Sea Of Heartbreak, his third biggest hit, from 1961; Lonesome Number One, a number two hit from 1961; I Can Mend Your Broken Heart, which spent four months as a hit in 1962; and A Legend In My Time, heard in Don Gibson's original 1960 version. A Legend In My Time never charted for Don Gibson, but he continued to think it was one of the best songs he had ever written; his confidence was validated years later when Ronnie Milsap found it and made it into one of his biggest hits. There also some Gibson rarities here. Sittin' Here Cryin' was the B side of a single from Don Gibson's first 'pure country' February 1957 session. Sweet Sweet Girl, an attempted follow-up to Blue Blue Day, was a gem that was first issued on an obscure 45rpm EP album, while If You Don't Know It was never issued as a single at all, but was used as filler on Don's first RCA LP in 1958. I Sat Back And Let It Happen, a 1961 side, was never issued by RCA, and has appeared only on BFX 15089 - Rockin' Rollin' Don Gibson.

And rarest of all, four sides heard here have never been issued in any form whatsoever before, and appear here for the first time. These are I'm Crying Inside [1965], If You Knew Me [1964], If You Don't Know The Sorrow [1964] and Think Of Me [1964]. They are prime Gibson, and they serve to remind us of how rich and varied the Gibson legacy is.

Charles Wolfe, October 1987

 

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Tracklist
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Forget Me
02 Funny, Familar, Forgotten Feelings
03 Just To Hurt Me
04 Losing Your Love
05 The Chance I Had To Take
06 Run Along Blues
07 No Doubt About It
08 All My Love
09 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
10 Where Is Your Heart Tonight
11 This Cold War With You
12 We Live In Two Different Worlds
13 It's A Sin
14 (I'll Let My Heart Break) For A Little While
15 Faded Love
16 Ashes Of Love
17 They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
18 What Locks The Door
19 Headin' Down The Wrong Highway
20 Good Morning, Dear
21 It's A Long, Long Way To Georgia
22 I Just Said Goodbye To My Dreams
23 Low And Lonely
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 You've Still Got A Place In My Heart
02 Everlovin' Never Changing Mind
03 Maiden's Prayer
04 A Thing Called Sadness
05 What Now My Love
06 Half A Man
07 Thoughts
08 I Walk Alone
09 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
10 Someday You'll Call My Name
11 She's Looking Good
12 Times Were Good
13 Don't Rob Another Man's Castle
14 Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
15 If My Heart Had Windows
16 Ever Changing Mind
17 You Can't Pick A Rose In December
18 Til I Can't Take It Anymore (& DOTTIE WEST)
19 Let's Wait A Little Longer (& DOTTIE WEST)
20 Lovin' Season (& DOTTIE WEST)
21 How's The World Treating You (& DOTTIE WEST)
22 Rings Of Gold (& DOTTIE WEST)
23 Sweet Memories (& DOTTIE WEST)
24 I Love You Because (& DOTTIE WEST)
25 When I Stop Dreaming (& DOTTIE WEST)
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Set Me Free (& DOTTIE WEST)
02 I'll Never Stand In Your Way (& DOTTIE WEST)
03 Final Examination (& DOTTIE WEST)
04 Sweet Dreams (& DOTTIE WEST)
05 Solitary
06 I Will Always
07 Montego Bay
08 Blue Darlin'
09 Good Deal, Lucille
10 Am I That Easy To Forget
11 Oh Lonesome Me
12 One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
13 Bonaparte's Retreat
14 A Little Bitty Tear
15 Here Comes My Baby Back Again
16 Half As Much
17 I Can't Stop Loving You
18 Tennessee Waltz
19 Almost Persuaded
20 Four Walls
21 I Found Someone New
22 Snap Your Fingers
23 There's A Story (Goin' 'Round)(& DOTTIE WEST)
24 Lock, Stock, And Teardrops (& DOTTIE WEST)
Gibson, Don - Singer-Songwriter 1966-69 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 Intro Country Style #151
02 Oh Lonesome Me
03 I Can't Stop Loving You
04 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER)
05 Set The Wedding (DOTTIE SILLS)
06 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
07 Outro
08 Intro Country Style #157
09 Oh Lonesome Me
10 Take Me As I Am Or Let Me Go
11 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER)
12 Blue Blue Day
13 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
14 Outro
15 Intro Country Style #177
16 Give Myself A Party
17 Look Who's Blue
18 Comedy (JUNE CARTER)
19 Sweet Temptation (JUNE CARTER)
20 Where No One Stands Alone
21 Outro
22 Intro Country Style #188
23 Blue Blue Day
24 Heartbreak Avenue
25 That Lonesome Road (DOLORES DINNING)
26 Raggin' The Keys (DEL WOOD)
27 I'm Climbing Up The Mountain
28 Outro
29 Intro Country Style #232
30 Blue Blue Day
31 Heartbreak Avenue
32 Flip Flop And Bop (FLOYD CRAMER)
33 Oh Lonesome Me
34 Outro
35 Intro Country Style #251
36 Oh Lonesome Me
37 If I Can Stay Away
38 Am I That Easy To Forget (SKEETER DAVIS)
39 Just One Time
40 Outro