You Don't Know Me - a Ray Charles tribute cover

Los Angeles voice actor and impressionist Jeff McNeal pays tribute to the immortal Ray Charles with this cover of "You Don't Know Me", written by Eddie Arnold. Mr. Charles was truly one of America's greatest treasures and gift to the world during his incredible lifespan. I have great memories of listening to this album as a very young child and developing a real love for his music. Hope I've been able to do this one justice. Thanks for listening and as always, comments welcome. For dozens of other artist tributes, please check my channel and subscribe if you find enough that you like! Cheers.

**Apologies for a small video sync problem in the beginning of this video. I actually liked the way I sang the third and fourth lines of the song from a subsequent take better and cut it in, but it clearly doesn't sync with the original performance from the video, which comprises the other 95% of the song, which is why everything else matches up perfectly. Anyway, sorry for the visual glitch, but having a final take that I was pleased with overrode any concerns with how it was going to look on the vid. Thanks for your understanding...

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[davidemerling]

Jeff, if that's you really singing - then WHO are the back-up singers?

[JeffMcNeal]

@davidemerling Well, that is really me singing, but I don't know the identity of the talented background singers or musicians on the karaoke track. But they sure are great, aren't they?

[DonVantel]

????? REALLY? WOW???

[JeffMcNeal]

@DonVantel Is that a good ?????REALLY? WOW???

[DonVantel]

@JeffMcNeal is that really you singing?

[JeffMcNeal]

@DonVantel Oh, of course! All of my videos are of me singing!

[NERNOTO]

good job bravo super

[geebeeman1]

Good job! I assume the background singers are probably "The Ray Charles singers"(?).

[MizzCBlack]

Brilliant, I love it :)

[albrenza]

YOu sing so cool! ;D

[MIUJACK]

Great!

[MarieJONeill]

wow!!!

[Crouchman2]

Ray, really nice job.  :-)

[annemaree]

Truly wonderful cover Jef for this great song!!!

*allstars