I Can't Stop Loving You

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"I Can't Stop Loving You"
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Don Gibson
Producer(s)Chet Atkins
Don Gibson singles chronology
""Oh Lonesome Me"
(1958) 		"I Can't Stop Loving You"
(1957) 		"Blue Blue Day"
(1958)

"I Can't Stop Loving You" is a

Oh, Lonesome Me", becoming a double-sided country hit single. At the time of Gibson's death in 2003, the song had been recorded by more than 700 artists, most notably by Ray Charles, whose recording reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart.[5]

Composition

Gibson wrote both "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Oh, Lonesome Me" on June 7, 1957, in Knoxville, Tennessee.[5] "I sat down to write a lost love ballad," Gibson said in Dorothy Horstman's 1975 book Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy. "After writing several lines to the song, I looked back and saw the line 'I can't stop loving you.' I said, 'That would be a good title,' so I went ahead and rewrote it in its present form."[6]

Charts

Note: This original recording was released as "I Can't Stop Lovin' You".[7]

Chart (1958) Peak
position
Norway (VG-lista)[8] 2
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[9] 7
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 81

Ray Charles version

"I Can't Stop Loving You"
Single by Ray Charles
from the album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
B-side"Born to Lose"
ReleasedApril 1962
RecordedFebruary 15, 1962
StudioUnited Western Recorders, United B, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length2:37 (single version)
4:12 (album version)
LabelABC-Paramount 10330
Songwriter(s)Don Gibson[12]
Producer(s)Sid Feller[12]
Ray Charles singles chronology
"Hit the Road Jack"
(1961) 		"I Can't Stop Loving You"
(1962) 		"
You Don't Know Me
"
(1962)
Audio sample

The song was covered by

Kvällstoppen on July 10, 1962.[17]

The Ray Charles version is noted for his saying the words before the last five lines of the song on the final chorus: "Sing the song, children". Choral backing was provided by The

CMT
's "100 Greatest Songs in Country Music".

In 1963 at the 5th Annual Grammy Awards, the Ray Charles version of the song won him the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording.[18]

This recording was featured in Metropolis, where it can be heard during the explosion of the skyscraper Ziggurat shortly after the climax.[19]

Charts

Chart (1962) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[20] 1
Finland (
Suomen virallinen)[21]
 2
Norway (
VG-Lista)[22]
 4
Sweden (
Kvällstoppen)[17]
 1
Sweden (Tio i Topp)[23] 1
US Billboard Hot 100[24] 1
U.S. Billboard R&B Singles 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[25] 1
UK Singles Chart[12]
 1

All-time charts

Chart (1958-2018) Position
US Billboard Hot 100[26] 125

Other versions

The song has been recorded by many other artists. Some recordings are titled as "I Can't Stop Lovin' You" (with or without an apostrophe).

References

  1. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  2. ^ Staff 11/18/2003, CMT com. "Acclaimed Songwriter Don Gibson Dies". CMT News. Retrieved 2021-09-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Card .0867". vcc.copyright.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  4. ^ "78/45 Singles - Don Gibson Discography". patsyclinediscography.com. Retrieved 2021-09-09.
  5. ^ a b Edwards, Joe (5 November 2003). "Country Legend Don Gibson Dies". CBS News. Associated Press. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  6. ISBN 0-915608-19-7
    .
  7. ^ "45cat - View Image".
  8. ^ "Don Gibson – I Can't Stop Loving You". VG-lista.
  9. ^ "Don Gibson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  10. ^ "Don Gibson Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  11. ISBN 978-0-571-28198-5
    .
  12. ^
    ISBN 0-85112-250-7
    .
  13. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 113.
  14. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 52.
  15. ^ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1962
  16. ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  17. ^
    ISBN 9163021404
    .
  18. ^ "Ray Charles | Artist | GRAMMY.com". grammy.com.
  19. ^ Metropolis ending (2001) HD, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-07-25
  20. ISBN 0-646-44439-5
    .
  21. ISBN 951-31-2503-3
    .
  22. ^ "I Can't Stop Loving You". VG-lista 2022 (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  23. ISBN 919727125X
    .
  24. ^ "Ray Charles Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  25. ^ "Ray Charles Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  26. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  27. ISBN 9780199840441
    .
  28. ISBN 9781617038617
    .
  29. ^ "Boots Randolph - Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax! Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  30. ^ a b c Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 361.
  31. ^ "Original versions of I Can't Stop Loving You by Johnny Rodriguez | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
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