Clarification: Partly written and sung by Arnold. I'm giving him a writing credit on this one.
So, after listening to both songs, they not only sound extremely similar - both in beats / melody and subject matter - but they were also released the same year (1962).
Background for "You Don't Know Me", which was written earlier, in 1955:
>"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.
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>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.
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>In his book Eddy Arnold: Pioneer of the Nashville Sound, author Michael Streissguth describes how the song came to be.
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>Cindy Walker, who had supplied Eddy with "Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me" (a number one country record in 1949 and Eddy's first Cindy Walker release), recalled discussing the idea for "You Don't Know Me" with Eddy as she was leaving one of Nashville's annual disc-jockey conventions.
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>"I went up to the Victor suite to tell Steve Sholes good-bye," she explained, "and just as I was leaving, Eddy came in the door."
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>Walker remembered him saying, "I got a song title for you... 'You Don't Know Me.'"
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>"But I know you," teased Walker.
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>"This is serious," replied Eddy, who proceeded to outline his idea.
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>The songwriter promised to let the idea stew in her head for a while. And soon, she remembered, the lyrics tumbled onto the page. "The song just started singing. It sort of wrote itself..."
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>The best-selling version of the song is by Ray Charles, who took it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1962, after releasing the song on his #1 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. It was kept from the #1 spot by Sheila by Tommy Roe.
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>This version also topped the "Easy listening" chart for three weeks in 1962, and was used in the 1993 comedy film Groundhog Day. The song was the 12th number one country hit for Mickey Gilley in 1981.
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>The song has been performed or rec
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Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music is a studio album by American recording artist Ray Charles, released in April 1962 on ABC-Paramount Records. A departure from Charles's previous work, the album features country, folk, and Western music standards covered and redone by Charles in popular song forms of the time, including rhythm and blues, pop, and jazz. Regarded by many critics as Charles's best studio album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music has been considered by several music writers to be a landmark album in bAmerican music. The album's integration of soul and country music bent racial barriers in popular music, amid the height of the African-American civil rights struggle. In the process of recording the album, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to exercise complete artistic control over his own recording career. The album has been called one of the greatest albums of all time by publications such as Rolling Stone and Time.
Genres: Gospel, Soul, R&B, Country, Western
Producers: Ray Charles, Sid Feller
Release Date: April 1962
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Love note: An original mashup.
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Songs included "Long live Algeria!" by soprano Hsu Yu-Kuang, and "The Oath of the Algerian People".
The unwavering support of China started earlier, as it was the first country to recognize the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA) a few weeks after its proclamation in September 1958., and also worth noting their $100 million aid to the Algerian Military to fight in the dark decade.
I just learned most of this on a Twitter thread by a foreigner, a few source-checking on Wikipedia later and I thought to myself I should share it here because it's not widely known.
If the movie came out today, it would be set in 1971 and feature a song about how playing with Nerf Balls or Malibu Barbie would corrupt children.
Barbara Walters was 33 in 1962 and 42 in 1971.
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