"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
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
Chart positions
#5 (UK Singles Chart) #10 (Billboard Hot 100, USA) #11 (Dutch Top 40)
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. A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ... The Police are a three-piece British rock band, which were strongly influenced by reggae. ... Zenyatta Mondatta is the third album by The Police, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A&M Records is a record label formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... Sting circa 1987 Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), best known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician and formerly bassist and lead singer of The Police. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician. ... For other uses, see Sting (disambiguation). ... Andy Summers, 1996 Andy Summers was born Andrew James Somers on December 31, 1942 in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. ... A record chart, also known as a music chart, is a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... The Dutch Top 40 (: Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart, which first started as the Veronica Top 40, because the pirate radio channel Veronica first introduced it. ... The Police are a three-piece British rock band, which were strongly influenced by reggae. ... Dont Stand So Close to Me is a famous 1980 song and hit single by the British pop group The Police. ... Invisible Sun is a hit single by rock group The Police. ... The Police are a three-piece British rock band, which were strongly influenced by reggae. ... Zenyatta Mondatta is the third album by The Police, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). ...

According to Sting the song is about the attraction that people have to simple songs: For other uses, see Sting (disambiguation). ...

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 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. Every Breath You Take: The Singles is The Polices greatest hits album, released in 1986. ... DTS may stand for: Digital Theater System (a multichannel audio source for synchronized film sound) Data Transformation Services (Microsoft database tool for Extract, Transform and Load operations) Dragons Tooth Sword (a fictional weapon from the video game Deus Ex) Dallas Theological Seminary (an evangelical Christian seminary in Dallas, TX...