Cindy Walker

Cindy Walker ( born July 20, 1918 in Mart, Texas, † March 23, 2006 in Mexia, Texas ) was an American country musician, singer and songwriter.

Life

Walker wrote numerous hits for well-known country music stars, including Bob Wills, Eddy Arnold and Carl Smith, as well as Bing Crosby. Among other things, she wrote the 1962 rock song for Dream Baby Roy Orbison and Distant Drums Jim Reeves, a song that was in 1966 for five weeks in the British charts at number one.

You Do not Know Me by Eddy Arnold Walker wrote and took it on with Ray Charles and Jerry Vale. In The Misty Moonlight by Jerry Wallace both a hit as well by Dean Martin, also sung by Gene Autry Western Song Blue Canadian Rockies was Walker wrote. She also wrote for Bob Wills, with whom she also composed Sugar Moon.

In addition to her work as a songwriter, she stood as a singer on the stage and took on multiple disks. Your best time she had with Fred Foster at Monument Records. In 1970, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997 even in the Country Music Hall of Fame and in 1998 into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2006, Willie Nelson an album of Walker's best songs: You Do not Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker.