(I Don't Know Why) But I Do

"(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"
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
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 an 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 B-side on the single release was "Just My Baby and Me".

The U.S. release on the Argo record label was titled "I Don't Know Why". The U.K. release on the Pye label and the Australian release on the Coronet label were both titled "But I Do". The U.K. version spent 19 weeks in the charts and peaked at #3 in the first week of May 1961.[1]

Popular culture

The song was made popular again after appearances in the 1994 film Forrest Gump, and the 1999 film Mickey Blue Eyes.

Charts

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

References

  • "Billboard". Billboard Hot 100 airplay and sales charts. Retrieved June 11, 2006.
  1. Rice T, Rice J, Read M & Gambaccini P, Guinness Book of Hits of the 60s. Guinness, London, 1984, p.75 (ISBN 0-85112-416-X)