BUT I DO

Created on 05/12/2005
Latest update on 25/04/2024

Artist: Clarence 'Frogman' Henry
Author: Robert Guidry/Paul Gayten
Label: Argo
Year: 1961

Bobby Charles Guidry wrote it for his friend Clarence Henry; the opposite of what happened with Ain't Got No Home (see there). Top 5 US (sometimes entitled I Don't Know Why); later in film Forrest Gump.

Covers:

1961:

Sacha Distel [as A cause de toi]

1962:

Caterina Valente [as Non So Perchè (Ti Amo)]

1965:

Walker Brothers

1968:

Frankie Avalon

1971:

Bob & Marcia

1972:

Bobby Vinton

1975:

Del Reeves

1977:

Tommy Roe

1980:

Jimmy Frey [as I Don't Know Why I Love You (But I Do)]

1981:

Tom Jones

1984:

Lena Martell

1987:

Bobby Charles [author]

1990:

Lou Rawls

1990:

Jo Vally [as Door Jou]

1992:

Amos Garrett

1996:

Charley Pride

2004:

Ronnie Milsap

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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