You Don't Know Me (Cindy Walker song)

"You Don't Know Me"
Single by Eddy Arnold
B-side"The Rockin' Mockin' Bird"
ReleasedApril 21, 1956
Recorded1955
GenreCountry
Length2:34
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)Eddy Arnold
Cindy Walker

"You Don't Know Me" is a song written by Eddy Arnold and Cindy Walker in 1955. "You Don't Know Me" was first recorded by Arnold that year and released as a single on April 21, 1956, on RCA Victor.[1] The best-selling version of the song is by Ray Charles, who took it to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962, after releasing the song on his number 1 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at number 14 on the pop chart. Arnold's version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47–6502, backed with "The Rockin' Mockin' Bird", which reached number 10 on the Billboard country chart. Cash Box magazine, which combined all best-selling versions at one position, included a version by Carmen McRae that never appeared in the Billboard Top 100 Sides listing.

  1. ^ "Cover versions of You Don't Know Me by Eddy Arnold with Orchestra and Choir conducted by Charles Grean". Secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.