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词条 Don't Ask Me Why (Billy Joel song)
释义

  1. Charts

     Weekly charts  Year-end charts 

  2. Personnel

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox song
| name = Don't Ask Me Why
| cover = DontAskMeWhy.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Billy Joel
| album = Glass Houses
| released = July 24, 1980
| format = 7"
| recorded = 1979
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Pop rock, soft rock, folk rock
| length = 2:59
| label = Columbia Records
| writer = Billy Joel
| producer = Phil Ramone
| prev_title = It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
| prev_year = 1980
| next_title = Sometimes a Fantasy
| next_year = 1980
}}

"Don't Ask Me Why" is a Billy Joel song released in 1980. The track contains all acoustic and Latin percussion instruments performing in an Afro-Cuban rhythmic style. An eclectic, instrumental "Latin Ballroom" piano solo, played over the bridge section after the second verse, is also featured in part of the song; Joel states that the mix for the midsection includes "fifteen pianos overdubbed on top of each other."[1] The song spent two weeks at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

It was released as the third single from the album Glass Houses and later included on Greatest Hits Volume 2.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Canada RPM Top Singles[3]4
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[4]1
Dutch Singles Chart42
French Singles Chart[5]42
US Billboard Hot 10019
US Billboard Adult Contemporary1
US Cash Box Top 10021

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)Rank
Canada[6]45
US (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[7]122

Personnel

  • Billy Joel - vocals, piano, Yamaha electric grand piano
  • David Brown - acoustic guitar
  • Liberty DeVitto - maracas, bass drum, triangle, claves, ratchet, castanets
  • Russell Javors - acoustic guitar
  • Doug Stegmeyer - bass

See also

  • List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1980 (U.S.)

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Bordowitz|first1=Hank|title=Billy Joel: The Life & Times of an Angry Young Man|date=2006|publisher=Billboard Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8230-8248-3|page=128|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgY9C3bfshMC&pg=PA128&dq=%22don't+ask+me+why%22+%22billy+joel%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiks4KZ3ZLOAhUi_IMKHUBwB60Q6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=%22don't%20ask%20me%20why%22%20%22billy%20joel%22&f=false|accessdate=July 26, 2016}}
2. ^{{cite book |title= Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2002 |publisher=Record Research |page=127}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=RPM 100 Singles (Vol. 34, No. 2, October 25, 1980)|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.0255a&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=cgsc9om72arnb284jqqpculmj7|website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca|accessdate=July 26, 2016}}
4. ^http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0244&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0244.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0244
5. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Artistes.php |title=InfoDisc : Bilan des Ventes par Artiste |website=Infodisc.fr |date= |accessdate=2016-10-16}}
6. ^http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.0272&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=mhe12pta2k83e08udtq66ot062
7. ^{{cite book |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |date=1999 |title=Pop Annual |url= |location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |publisher=Record Research Inc. |page= |isbn=0-89820-142-X}}

External links

  • {{MetroLyrics song|billy-joel|dont-ask-me-why}}
{{Billy Joel}}{{1980s-pop-song-stub}}

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