Get the latest gossip
Cindy Walker Inducted Posthumously Into Songwriters Hall of Fame
Songwriter Cindy Walker, whose most famous song is “You Don’t Know Me,” was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in Nashville on April 19, 2024.
1 hits on Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs chart across the decades, including “Sugar Moon” (Bob Wills, 1947), “Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me” (Eddy Arnold, 1950), “Cherokee Maiden” (Merle Haggard, 1976) and “You Don’t Know Me” (Mickey Gilley, 1981). Ray Charles recorded “You Don’t Know Me” on his landmark 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, which topped the Billboard 200 for 14 weeks. The latter is another of this year’s SHOF inductees, along with the aforementioned Steely Dan plus Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley, Dean Pitchford and R.E.M.
Or read this on Billboard