(I Don't Know Why) But I Do

Clarence “Frogman” Henry

5 cited facts

June 27, 1994
2:21
110 BPM · G# minor

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Released on Chess, also Almost Grown (Chuck Berry), Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry) and Anthony Boy (Chuck Berry)
Written by Bobby Charles, also See You Later Alligator (Bill Haley and His Comets), Walking to New Orleans (Fats Domino) and The Jealous Kind (Delbert McClinton)

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Bobby Charles wrote 23 songs on fono
Bobby Charles’s most frequent co-writer is Fats Domino (4 songs together)
Bobby Charles first appears on fono in 1960, 34 years before this song

Credits

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Written by: Bobby Charles and Paul Gayton
Part of: Ain't Got No Home: The Best of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Released on: Chess

Written by: Bobby Charles and Paul Gayton
Part of: Ain't Got No Home: The Best of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Released on: Chess

Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.

Same writer: Bobby Charles
See You Later Alligator
Bill Haley and His Comets
1985
Same label: Chess
Almost Grown
Chuck Berry
1959
Same writer: Bobby Charles
Walking to New Orleans
Fats Domino
1960
Same label: Chess
Too Much Monkey Business
Chuck Berry
1956
Same writer: Bobby Charles
The Jealous Kind
Delbert McClinton
1980
Same label: Chess
Anthony Boy
Chuck Berry
1959

Elsewhere

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1MusicBrainz (I Don't Know Why) But I Do was written by Bobby Charles
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do was written by Bobby Charles
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2MusicBrainz (I Don't Know Why) But I Do was written by Paul Gayton
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do was written by Paul Gayton
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3MusicBrainz (I Don't Know Why) But I Do is part of the release Ain't Got No Home: The Best of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do is part of the release Ain't Got No Home: The Best of Clarence "Frogman" Henry
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4MusicBrainz Chess is the label of the song (I Don't Know Why) But I Do
Chess is the label of the song (I Don't Know Why) But I Do
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5MusicBrainz (I Don't Know Why) But I Do was released on 1994-06-27
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do was released on 1994-06-27
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