Don't Do Me Like That

"Don't Do Me Like That"
U.S. 7" vinyl
Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Damn the Torpedoes
B-side
  • "Casa Dega" (US)
  • "Century City" (UK)
ReleasedNovember 5, 1979 (1979-11-05)
Genre
Length2:44
LabelBackstreet
Songwriter(s)Tom Petty
Producer(s)Jimmy Iovine
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
"Listen to Her Heart"
(1978)
"Don't Do Me Like That"
(1979)
"Refugee"
(1980)

"Don't Do Me Like That" is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in November 1979 as the first single from the album Damn the Torpedoes (1979). It was the first of three of their songs to be in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.[3] The single also peaked at number 3 in Canada. In the UK, despite airplay by Capital Radio in the summer of 1980, the track failed to make the Top 75 chart.

  1. ^ Molanphy, Chris (October 30, 2017). "Le Petty Prince Edition". Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (Podcast). Slate. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
  2. ^ Rotondo, Andrea M. (February 12, 2014). Tom Petty: Rock 'n' Roll Guardian. Omnibus Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-85712-868-3.
  3. ^ url= https://www.billboard.com/lists/tom-petty-top-songs-billboards-hot-100/stop-draggin-my-heart-around-by-stevie-nicks-with-tom-petty-the-heartbreakers-hot-100-peak-no-3-peak-date-9-5-1981/