<Tr> <Th> Label </Th> <Td> RCA Victor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Eddy Arnold Cindy Walker </Td> </Tr> <P> "You Don't Know Me" is a song written by Cindy Walker based on a title and storyline given to her by Eddy Arnold 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 . The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by Jerry Vale in 1956, peaking at #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 #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 . </P> <P> In his book Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound, author Michael Streissguth describes how the song came to be: </P>

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