Don Gibson · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Grab Hold of These Spiritual Nuggets!!!
- Building bridges of friendship
- The Don Gibson collection
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1928-04-03
- Active to
- 2003-11-17
americancountrynashville soundsinger-songwriter
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 134,604
- Total plays
- 909,421
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Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 – November 17, 2003) was an American country musician. Gibson was born in Shelby, North Carolina into a poor working-class family, he dropped out of school in the second grade. Gibson's first band was called Sons of the Soil, with whom he made his first recording in 1948. Among his greatest hits were "Oh Lonesome Me" (later recorded by both Ray Charles and Neil Young) and "Blue Blue Day" (both No. 1 hits in 1958); "Don't Tell Me Your Troubles" (1959); "Sea o
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gibson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Shelby
- Place of death
- Nashville
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Don Gibson.png
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- date of birth
- 1928-04-03
- date of death
- 2003-11-17
- place of burial
- Shelby
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
- birth name
- Donald Eugene Gibson
- name in native language
- Don Eugene Gibson
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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