Don't Do Me Like That

"Don't Do Me Like That"
Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Damn the Torpedoes
A-side	Don't Do Me Like That
B-side	Casa Dega
Released	November 5, 1979 (1979-11-05)
Format	7"
Genre	Rock
Length	2:44
Label	Backstreet
Writer(s)	Tom Petty
Producer	Tom Petty, 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 the title of 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 reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's first Top 10 hit and peaked at #3 in Canada.^[1]

Content

The song is about a friend of the narrator who gets hurt by a girl and the narrator goes on to tell his significant other that he doesn't want it to happen to him. However, the title lyric is a double entendre, as "doing" someone is common slang for sexual intercourse.

In film

The song appeared in the 2009 romantic comedy It's Complicated starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin. Streep and Baldwin's character dance to the song in a bar.

Single track listings

• "Don't Do Me Like That" b/w "Casa Dega"
  Backstreet 41138 (US)

• "Don't Do Me Like That" b/w "Century City"
  "Something Else" (Live) b/w "Stories We Could Tell" (Live)
  Backstreet MCA 596 (UK 2x7" single)

Charts

Chart (1979-1980)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	10
Canadian RPM Top Singles	3
New Zealand Singles Chart	17

References

1. ^ Joel Whitburn, Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955-2010, Record Research, 2011.