Don Gibson - Don Gibson - 18 Greatest Hits

So they're not original!! BIG DEAL

PICTURE THIS:
Suppose you went to see Don (or pick a star) last month at the concert hall downtown.
He's back for another appearance tomorrow. It's reported that he is bringing back the same show as the one last month, because it was so crowded and people who didn't get to see it were clamoring to get to see it. You get lucky and get tickets to this show also. Are you going? And if you go, are you expecting to hear him sing every song exactly the way he sang it last month? If so, why go? You already saw and heard him sing those same songs. I'll bet there will be differences in his voice and in the way he phrases some of them or the way he pronounces certain words. Only you will know it because you saw it last month. So, if you don't want to hear him use a different phrase or word or note, maybe you shouldn't go. You must already have the albums of these songs, or how would you know they are different?

Well, I have my favorite Don Gibson songs, and I have favorite versions of some of those favorites, but I don't throw the ones I like less out the door. I still like to listen to them. Maybe I'm just not sophisticated enough to care. Some of the versions just depend on my mood as to which one I want to hear today. I am constantly burning a CD of my favorites off of all of my albums as my favorites change around.

I would also like to have a full version of the Hickory label songs. I don't know what they are. I never paid any attention to labels when I was young and collecting my albums. So how does one find out? I don't see any of these in here at Amazon, so far, being labeled as Hickory recorded. Please enlighten me. I am sure I will love them.
I just LOVE him and love him singing ANYTHING. And have for over 50 years.
He didn't do bad with just a year and a half or so of schooling. My favorite story about him that I read in the Bear Family Box Set was this: He came home from school one day and told his mom he thought school was boring and a waste of time, and so he wasn't going back. He was 8 years old and in the second grade and he didn't go back. Don't ask me why his mom let him do it. I'd shudder to think what I would do to one of my kids who came in from school and told me that. But, think about it. If he had gone on to school, they might have just messed up all of his creativity and he wouldn't ever have written I Can't Stop Loving You, and so, Ray Charles might still be known only to the black people. Wouldn't that be a shame? I believe Don was the TRUE GENIUS. I'll take any kind of music I can get from him. I always find something new to like in every song. Right now, I'm still hung up on You Win Again. I had heard it over and over and over throughout the years until a few months ago when I was listening to the album while relaxing and reading, and for the first time, I heard it in a different way through my headphones. Now I can't get enough of it.
Oh, I have an 8 year old grandson in the second grade. He is one of the smartest kids in the whole second grade at his school of 3 or 4 hundred. Even his teachers say so. I can't even visualize him coming in and saying that to his mom or dad. Nor even leaving home at age 12, as Don did, and learn to pick a guitar and put a band together while a teenager.
Don was not a wind-up toy who did the same things, exactly the same ways, over and over. He certainly spread his wings, and was dog-gone good at it. I truly miss him. As I know Bobbie does or did.
It took way too long for them to induct him into the CMHOF. POLITICS AND/OR CHANGING THE RULES TO SUIT A FEW??!!. May 5, 2008

Disappointed

Not the original recordings and not spelled out in the ads. My fault I should have listened to the samples. Now I have to buy what I thought I was getting. February 15, 2007

Some RCA Remakes, some Hickory Classics

Don Gibson had 27 charted records while recording for Hickory or Hickory/ABC. This CD picks up 7 or 8 of his Hickory hits, with the rest being remakes of his RCA successes. The remakes are well worth being heard, but I'd really like to see a decent collection focusing the Hickory hits. Gibson's last top ten for RCA had occurred in 1966 except for a pair duets with Dottie West. The switch to Hickory in 1970 revitalized his career with "Country Green" going to #5 in 1971, "Woman (Sensuous Woman)" reaching #1 in 1972 and several more top 15 tunes. November 4, 2005

Remakes?

I don't think of these as 'remakes'!, April 17, 2005
Reviewer: D. G. Bradford (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

To Cory L. Schwent and other reviewers - Some of these definitely aren't remakes. He originally wrote some of these songs so recordings by other artists are 'remakes'. Many more famous artists have recorded his songs which shows how very talented this man was. Oh Lonesome Me and I Can't Stop Loving You were even written in the same afternoon! He may not have been the greatest singer but you can't beat his songwriting....
April 17, 2005

Ain't It Always Like That?

You finally get all the songs you want to hear from a certain recording artist and there's a passel of remakes in it? Sure, the songs have a charm of their own done again years later, but some people (like myself) remember every little nuanace of a favorite song, a small note on the guitar, the singer going a little higher on a certain note, etc. that recalled a time or times back when, when you and that special person were listening to the song when it was new. If you don't care about such little things, sure, the songs are good, yes, they are, so buy it. We ARE talking Don Gibson after all. December 9, 2004

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