GREAT DON GIBSON 78 " LOOK WHO'S BLUE / GIVE MYSELF A PARTY " UK RCA1098 E+/M-

	£		28
	$		37

A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS US COUNTRY HIT FROM DON GIBSON ON A UK 78

LOOK WHO'S BLUE / GIVE MYSELF A PARTY

Born Donald Eugene Gibson in Shelby, North Carolina, Gibson got his start with a local band called the Sons of the Soil on Shelby station WOHS. In 1949, he made his first recording with them: a Mercury side called “Automatic Mama.” By 1952 he had a job at Knoxville’s WNOX and was recording for Columbia. His recordings for this label were not commercially successful, but he was discovering he had a knack for songwriting. By 1955, Gibson had written his first masterpiece, “Sweet Dreams,” later to be a hit for Gibson, Faron Young, and Patsy Cline. It won him a songwriter’s contract with Acuff-Rose Publications and a recording deal with MGM. Then, in 1957, while living in a trailer park north of Knoxville, he wrote his other two career songs on the same day: “Oh Lonesome Me” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You.” (The latter would eventually be recorded more than 700 times by singers in many music genres and sell more than 30 million records worldwide.)

In 1957, Gibson traveled back to Nashville to record “Oh Lonesome Me” for RCA. He and producer Chet Atkins decided to abandon the traditional steel guitar and fiddle and use a new sound featuring only guitars, a piano, a drummer, upright bass, and background singers. It became one of the first examples of what would be called the Nashville Sound and won Gibson a #1 hit; it also set the pattern for a long series of other RCA hits, including “Blue Blue Day”and "Look Who's Blue" (1958), “Who Cares” (1959), “Sea of Heartbreak” (1961), and “Rings of Gold” (1969). These accomplishments were even more remarkable because Gibson achieved them while suffering from personal problems and drug abuse.

THE RECORD DID NOT MAKE THE CHARTS IN THE UK AND THIS LATE 1958 78 IS VERY RARE.

LOOK WHO'S BLUE

(Look, look, look-a, look who's blue) (Look, look, look-a, look who's blue) Please, please, have pity on me Oh, can't you see that I'm in misery Please, please, I'm beggin' like a fool Woe is me, look who's blue

I said no gal's gonna ever tie me down I'm goin' out every night and paint the town Well I was doin' fine till I met you Woe is me, look who's blue

Please, please, have pity on me Oh, can't you see that I'm in misery Please, please, I'm beggin' like a fool Woe is me, look who's blue

(Instrumental Break)

I said there'd never be just one for me And I'm gonna stay footloose and fancy free No gal's gonna ever tell me what to do Woe is me, look who's blue Please, please, have pity on me Oh, can't you see that I'm in misery Please, please, I'm beggin' like a fool Woe is me, look who's blue Woh-oh, blue

GIVE MYSELF A PARTY

I've got a lot of memories to last the rest of my life
So if you don't want to love me baby that'll be all right
I'm gonna take all the lovin' that I have for you
I'm gonna take all the loneliness sit right down with the blues
I'm gonna give myself a party serve old memories
Give myself a party think of how it used to be
Remember all the happiness we once knew
Gonna give myself a party just me and the blues

Well a few of your love letters a photograph or two
A gift you gave on my birthday with words of I love you
There's a lots of things to think about when you're happy feeling blue
So I'm gonna take all the loneliness sit right down with the blues
I'm gonna give myself a party...

DISC DETAILS:

UK RCA 1098  10" 78rpm SHELLAC

SIDE 1 :- LOOK WHO'S BLUE

SIDE 2:-  GIVE MYSELF A PARTY 

CONDITION -  EX+ / M-   NICE!

ONE ONLY AVAILABLE

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