"I Can't Stop Loving You" is unarguably the biggest hit of Don Gibson's songwriting career. While it wasn't the highest charting single of his own recording career, it has been recorded by over 3000 other artists, including Conway Twitty, Kitty Wells, Sammy Davis Jr, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.

In 1955, Gibson signed a songwriting contract with Acuff-Rose. He recorded with MGM for a few years before joining RCA in 1957. This is when he teamed up with RCA's top producer, Chet Atkins and found the formula for success. Gibson's voice was a perfect entity to the new Nashville Sound. With his gentle and intimate vocals surrounded by acoustic guitars and strings, the hits were inevitable.

In 1957, Gibson was still living in a trailer park near Knoxville, TN where he had been working at local radio station WNOX. Gibson wrote "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You" in one afternoon after his television and vacuum cleaner had been repossessed.

Acuff-Rose was preparing to pitch "Oh Lonesome Me" to George Jones, so Gibson and Atkins rushed into the studio to record it before that could happen. "I Can't Stop Loving You" was the throwaway side of this record. It debuted on the pop charts only one week after "Oh Lonesome Me" made it's way onto the country charts. Both songs were charting at the same time on both the pop and country charts with "Oh Lonesome Me" reaching the coveted number one spot and "I Can't Stop Loving You" reached number seven on the country chart. 1958 proved to be a good year for Gibson with four self-penned songs making their marks on the charts. The other two were "Blue Blue Day" and "Give Myself A Party."

Don Gibson is one of the best songwriters to ever come to Nashville. He has written hits for some of the industry's biggest stars. Gibson and Faron Young both had recordings of "Sweet Dreams" hit the top ten in the summer of 1956. In 1963, Patsy Cline's version of this song became an instant classic.

Gibson was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973. He was finally given his rightful place in history with his October 2001 induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.