On September 26, 1967 RCA Victor released "Big Boss Man" / "You Don't Know Me". Both tracks entered Billboard's "Hot 100" on October 14th and stayed for six weeks. "Big Boss Man" peaked at number 38, "You Don't Know Me" made it to number 44. The ballad also appeared on the "Easy Listening Chart", even though it was just for two weeks. Billboard started to list the song on November 18th and it peaked at number 34. Worldwide the single sold a million copies, which translates to 150 million paid streams. Even though Elvis had left his commercial low point "Big Boss Man" / "You Don't Know Me" was anything but a success. Nowadays both tracks are not really popular, too. On Spotify "You Don't Know Me" accumulates 2.3 million streams while "Big Boss Man" was requested 2 million times.

For the record sleeve the art department of RCA Victor used a picture that had been made two years earlier to promote the MGM flick "Harum Scarum" and on which Elvis looked outdated by any means. The banner on the front side advertised the forthcoming album "Clambake", on the back the accordant movie was promoted.

The single cannot be found on the streaming platforms, but both songs are included on the "Clambake" album (1967).

The song was written by Al Smith and Luther Dixon and released by Jimmy Reed in 1960. Elvis recorded his version on September 10, 1967 within eleven takes. The narrator confronts his boss and tells him that he slave-drives him by letting him work all around the clock. The king sounds quite aressive and performs the r&b styled number extremely well. For his television special "SINGER presents Elvis" he re-recorded "Big Boss Man" and also performed it during his concerts from 1974 to 1977. In 1972 CAMDEN used the studio recording on the budget album "Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies - Volume 1"

The ballad was written by Cindy Walker and Eddy Arnold, who also was the first to release "You Don't Know Me". On February 21, 1967 Elvis recorded twenty takes of the song, but the final attempt was only used for the movie. On September 11th the king taped two more performances, the record master was a splice of the first attempt and the final bars of the second one. Elvis performs "You Don't Know Me" very well. In 1972 CAMDEN used it on their budget album "Elvis Sings Hits From His Movies - Volume 1".