Number 1 in the US and the UK also the Rhythm and Blues Genre.
First released by Don Gibson in 1957
Ray Charles - I Can’t Stop Loving You
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I’ve had a look at the songs in my year and I don’t know any of them 
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I don’t know them either - one of them was Souvenirs by Frank Sinatra and I can’t even place that song.
Nothing to see here I am afraid.
I do remember Don Gibson one of my all time favourites is his Sea of Heartbreak
But I was over 10 years old by then. It’s on my Spotify play list
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The first one that really made an impression on me was Diana by Paul Anka but I was 10 by then too.
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I loved Don Gibson songs.
The radio station in my home town, 7QT, played a whole lot of 50s and 60s music.
Don Gibson was an oft played singer.
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Paul Anka, one of those great crooners from the era.
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I was born November 1944. A time when husbands and wives were separated. The wives hoping their husbands would come home. The husbands hoping they still had their loved ones. I suppose this reassuring song of the time probably reflects that.
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God this makes me feel ancient … 1962
The lyrics are dismal too … The Young Ones
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Okay…not strictly a song, nice mellow tune from 1962 for a Sunday morning though.
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OMG, it was all Bing Crosby, Vera Lynn, Doris Day, the year I was born. Everyone was having a ball.
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One of my mum’s favourites ,if not her all time favourite.
I like it myself … it’s one of those tunes that stands the test of time well. Bit sad isn’t it.
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I’d have thought war rations would have put paid to all that,
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It is sad, melancholic.
Timeless as you suggest…
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Just googled, never realised the first music charts only started in 1952.
No platinum disc for Mozart then 
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Never mind. Eleven years later, The Beatles released Please Please Me. I was in long trousers, learning how to smoke a cigarette in the mirror, growing a mop top.
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And you’d look better than the hoodies of today.
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I was soon carrying a comb in my back pocket.
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1967 - Two timeless number one hits:
Light my fire - The Doors
A whiter shade of pale - Procol Harum
Still going strong today and I hope to think - just like me!
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I used to play that in my clarinet and saxophone days. Never sounded as good as Acker though. Such a rich tone.
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Acker had a friendly rivalry with Kenny Ball didn’t he?Trad Jazz,not my thing but popular before The Beatles,I think.
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