Single:
I Can’t Stop Loving You entered the Australian singles chart* on 2 June 1962 and peaked at #1. It was #7 on the Top 100 of 1962.
Album:
The song is on Ray’s 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
Songwriter:
Don Gibson
Producer:
Sid Feller
Record label of Australian release:
Ampar
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Ray Charles: Live At Montreux – filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1997:
Songfacts:
I Can’t Stop Loving You was written and originally recorded by country singer Don Gibson in 1958. His version was released as the B-side of his hit Oh Lonesome Me, which he wrote the same day.
Charles was known as a gospel and R&B singer, but he defied convention and decided to record an album of country and western songs. His producer, Sid Feller, put together tapes containing about 150 classic country songs so Charles could choose which ones to record. Included on the tapes was I Can’t Stop Loving You, which Charles remembered from when he would listen to The Grand Ole Opry. The resulting album, Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, was wildly successful, selling about 700,000 copies in the first month of its release.
At first, I Can’t Stop Loving You was not released as a single, but many DJs played it from the album and it became popular.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/ray-charles/i-cant-stop-loving-you
Lyrics:
(I can’t stop loving you)
I’ve made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can’t stop wanting you)
It’s useless to say
So I’ll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
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