De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
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| "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" | ||
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| Single by The Police | ||
| from the album Zenyatta Mondatta | ||
| Released | October 1980 | |
| Format | vinyl record (7") | |
| Recorded | 1980 | |
| Genre | New Wave | |
| Length | 4:09 | |
| Label | A&M Records | |
| Writer(s) | Sting | |
| Producer(s) | Stewart Copeland, Sting, Andy Summers |
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| The Police singles chronology | ||
| "Don't Stand So Close to Me" (1980) |
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" (1980) |
"Invisible Sun" (1981) |
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" is a song by The Police, released as a single in October 1980. It was the second single from the album Zenyatta Mondatta and a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom and the United States.
According to Sting the song is about the attraction that people have to simple songs:
I was trying to make an intellectual point about how the simple can be so powerful. Why are our favourite songs 'Da Doo Ron Ron' and 'Doo Wah Diddy Diddy'? In the song, I tried to address that issue. But everyone said, "This is bullshit, child's play. No one listened to the lyrics. Fuck you! Listen to the lyrics. I'm going to remake it again and put more emphasis on what I was talking about.
—Sting, Rolling Stone, 2/1988
As said, the song was re-recorded in 1986, and planned to be released on the Every Breath You Take: The Singles album. The re-recorded version of "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" didn't make it on the album, but Don't Stand So Close to Me '86 did. The track was reportedly included on the DTS-CD release of the Every Breath You Take: The Classics album (although some claim that the producers had mislaid the tape and had to return to the original demo and work from that). The song remains hard to find because later versions of the DTS release don't include the remake.
