Artist: Eddy Arnold
Author: Cindy Walker/Eddy Arnold
Label: Columbia
Year: 1956
Top 10 C&W. Recorded and released before anybody else. Reviewed in Billboard prior to Jerry Vale's.
Covers:
Jerry Vale [top 20 US two months before the author's version started hitting]
Ray Charles [n°2 US; in '04 in duet with Diana Krall]
Cindy Walker [author]
Mickey Gilley [n°1 C&W]
Van Morrison [with his daughter Shana]
Willie Nelson [title track cd You Don't Know Me - The Songs Of Cindy Walker]
Crystal Gayle [album title track]
Cindy Walker also wrote When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold (see there), Dream Baby (Roy Orbison), Distant Drums (Jim Reeves), I Don't Care (Webb Pierce/Ricky Skaggs) and In The Misty Moonlight (Jerry Wallace/Dean Martin).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)