70 Favorite Songs: 70. You Don’t Know Me
So here it is, as promised, My Favorite Songs List (because I like making lists…haha.) They’re arranged alphabetically by song title but I’m starting at the bottom and working my way to the top. Since there are so many songs in the world, I’ve limited it to one song per composer/performer, which was really really hard. Trust me. As much as possible, I try to look for the original performer’s music video or concert performance in YouTube but sometimes, they’re just really hard to find so I just choose which one I like best. Same goes with the versions uploaded in my Multiply site (but it’s only available to my contacts, though) And now the intro’s over, the countdown begins with:
You give your hand to me and then you say hello
And I can hardly speak, my heart is beating so
And anyone can tell you think you know me well
But you don’t know me
No you don’t know the one who dreams of you at night
And longs to kiss your lips, longs to hold you tight
Oh I am just a friend. That’s all I’ve ever been
‘Cause you don’t know me
I never knew the art of making love
But my heart aches with love for you
Afraid and shy I let my chance go by
The chance that you might love me too
You give your hand to me and then you say goodbye
I watch you walk away beside the lucky guy
Oh you will never know the one who loves you so
‘Cause you don’t know me
Composer(s): Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold
First Released: 1955
Album: unknown (by me, at least)
Genre: originally Country and then remade so many times, it’s sometimes Jazz or Pop or R&B (and god forbid, has Sitti remade it into Bossa Nova yet?)
Popular Covers: Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan
First heard in: My Best Friend’s Wedding soundtrack (sung by Jann Arden)
Performer in YouTube [above]: Michael Buble (first song performed, the clip continues to another song.)
Performer in MP3 [see my multiply site]: Michael Buble (album: It’s Time)
Why I Love It: because at that time I made the greatest mistake of falling in love with my best friend…haha…unrequited love, it figures. Oh well, love is so short…love songs are forever.
13 July 2009 at 12:09 pm
I am not sure Edward Arnold had any hand in actually writing this song– I believe he supplied the brilliant and Cindy Walker with the title idea only upon seeing eachother backstage at a show- and she went from there– but it is a sexist world we live in so she has virtually lost all mention in relation to this song– I even saw some boneheads online calling it a Ray Charles composition–
do you have any difinitive facts on Arnolds’ contribution? we need a country music historian– at least 70 years old and probably female before I’d trust it–
thnaks much– Skye Cantrell
13 July 2009 at 12:12 pm
and Michael Buble’s singing is, like always– uninspired — I could listen to him sing all day and never have any idea who he is inside– he is a “quaint” mimic– nostalgic for a periods in which he never lived…