(I Don't Know Why) But I Do

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"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do" cover
Single by Clarence "Frogman" Henry
from the album You Always Hurt the One You Love
Released 1961
Format 7" single
Genre R&B, Swamp pop, Country
Label Argo
Writer(s) Paul Gayten/Robert Guidry
Chart positions
Clarence "Frogman" Henry singles chronology
"On Bended Knee" (1961) "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
(1961)
"You Always Hurt the One You Love"
(1961)

(I Don't Know Why) But I Do is a R&B song written by Paul Gayten and Bobby Charles (as Robert Guidry), and performed by Clarence "Frogman" Henry. It was Henry's biggest U.S. hit, reaching #4 in early 1961. The song appears in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump. The B-side on the single release was "Just My Baby And Me."

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"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do" reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Chart (1961) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 4

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