Released 25 January 1999 (UK) Genre Garage house
nu-disco Label Armed | Format 12"
CD Length 4:01 | |
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B-side "Aliene"
"Rock da Spot" | ||
"You Don't Know Me" (originally titled "U Don't Know Me", sometimes shortened as "YDKM") is a song by American record producer Armand Van Helden, featuring the vocals from German-American singer Duane Harden. It was released on 25 January 1999 as the lead single from his third studio album, 2 Future 4 U.
The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, and reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in February 1999, where it dethroned The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" off the top spot. It scored Armand Van Helden his first chart-topper in the UK. "U Don't Know Me" peaked at number seven in France and Italy. The recording of this song went about in an unconventional way; the track was laid down, Van Helden went off and did his own thing, and left Harden to his own devices. This song was soon sampled by DJ duo Doman & Gooding for their hit single, "Runnin'".
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The strings featured in this song are courtesy of Carrie Lucas's "Dance With You". The drums are sampled from Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams" The full version of the track features a dialogue from the Dial M for Monkey segment of Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory. The episode was "Simion", (Maurice LaMarche) provided the spoken intro.