Don’t Bring Me Down

~ Recording by Electric Light Orchestra

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:04Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • JP1979-05-21
Jet Records25AP 1600
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • GB1979-05-31
Jet RecordsJETLX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 15.500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500, JETLX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia), Jet Records35769, DNW 2346
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records1R1 7037
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • US1979-06-07
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • IT1979-06-14
Jet RecordsJETLX 500
1.1Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDon’t Bring Me DownElectric Light OrchestraSingle
Jet RecordsJET 153
1.9No Me Desanimes = Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDescubrimiento = DiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)15305
1.9No Me Desanimes = Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDescubrimiento = DiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)115305
1.9No Me Desanimes = Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDescubrimiento = DiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)EPIC-152
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)CA 500, JET CA 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (rough-edged white shell/paper label with black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZT 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (smooth-edged off-white shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.12Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJTTC 6014
1.11Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (black shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records35769, FZA 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)25AP 1600
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (gray shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.11Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETEX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (smooth-edged gray shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZT 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (beige shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 13.500
1.11Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (red shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZA 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell/light blue text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Rainbow (Australian budget label)RSV 066
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500, JETLX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)17268
1.9No Me Desanimes = Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)S.E. 8451
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (off‐white/gray shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZT 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsLX 21.500, LX 500
1.11Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZA 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)33176
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:04Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records25KP 449
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell/paper label with light blue text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (black shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
AMIGA055 722
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
AMIGA055 722
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)JETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500
1.9No Me Defraudes = Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)247.162
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:04Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997), Jet Records25AP 1600, 25AP 1600(JT)
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:04Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)25AP-1600, Lp 1290-E
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJT 6014
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsLX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (black shell/white paper label with black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia), Jet RecordsJET-CX-500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (rough grey-edged shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZT 35769
1.9No Me Defraudes = Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)147.162
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records35769, FZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records40 JETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia)DNW 2346
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Discos CBS (imprint used by Discos CBS, S.A. branches in various Spanish‐speaking markets, see notes)230.028, 230028
1.9No Me Abandones = Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)19 189
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (rough-edged white shell/printed black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9No Me Defraudes = Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Epic (US label founded by CBS in 1953, now owned by Sony)147.162
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)25AP 1600
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:04Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)LP-1290-E
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJTC 6014
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (white shell/black text)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETCX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500
1.11Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (black shell)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZA 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia), Jet RecordsJETLX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJT 6014
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (Club Edition)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records318865
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJET LX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETLX 500
1.1Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraThe Rock AlbumVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
K‐tel (international budget record label)TU 2680
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • KR1980-05-10
CBS/Sony (imprint used in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia 1968–1991; also used in Spain until 1997)KJPL-0176
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsAPH(Z) 5006
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records30AP 1877
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsHZ 45769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records, SuzyJET LX 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
AMIGA8 55 722
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETLPH 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJETLX 500
1.1Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraThe Rock AlbumVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
K‐tel (international budget record label)TC 261
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJetcac 500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • JP1982-11-21
Jet Records35DP-24
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
  • DE1983-06-07
Jet RecordsCDJETLP500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records35769, ZK 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
CBS (CBS Records’ international imprint from 1962–1990; renamed since 1991 as Columbia), Jet RecordsCOL 40042
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsCDJET LP500, CDJETLP 500, CDJETLP500, DIDP 24
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsCDJETLP500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscovery (reissue)Electric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsCDJETLP500
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet Records35DP-24
1.14Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraA Perfect World of MusicElectric Light OrchestraAlbum + Compilation
Jet RecordsCDJET 24043, JET 24043, JETCD 24043
1.14Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraA Perfect World of MusicElectric Light OrchestraAlbum + Compilation
Jet RecordsJETCD 24043
1.9Don't Bring Me Down4:06Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsCDJETLP500
1.10Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraThe Light YearsElectric Light OrchestraAlbum + Compilation
Columbia (owned by Sony Music Entertainment, worldwide except JP; formerly owned by CBS between 1938–1990 within US/CA/MX)CK 81 017
1.10Don’t Bring Me Down4:05Electric Light OrchestraThe Light YearsElectric Light OrchestraAlbum + Compilation
CBS Direct (a division of CBS Records Canada)DMK-082
Promotion
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down?:??Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsJT 6014
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsELO 17
1.9Don’t Bring Me Down4:08Electric Light OrchestraDiscoveryElectric Light OrchestraAlbum
Jet RecordsFZ 35769

Relationships

engineer:Mack (German rock producer/engineer Reinhold Mack)
producer:Jeff Lynne
bass guitar:Kelly Groucutt (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
clarinet and electric piano:Richard Tandy (keyboardist for Electric Light Orchestra) (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
drums (drum set) and percussion:Bev Bevan (English rock drummer) (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
electric guitar and lead vocals:Jeff Lynne (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
piano and synthesizer:Jeff Lynne (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
Richard Tandy (keyboardist for Electric Light Orchestra) (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
choir vocals:Kelly Groucutt (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
Jeff Lynne (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
conductor:Louis Clark (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
strings arranger and choir vocals arranger:Louis Clark
Jeff Lynne
Richard Tandy (keyboardist for Electric Light Orchestra)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:CBS Records Inc. (for rights/distribution/manufacture use only; international subsidiary of CBS, Inc.) (in 1979)
Jet Inc. (in 1979)
Jet Records (in 1979)
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004, operated worldwide except in JP; normally not a release label) (in 1979)
Sony Music Entertainment (NOT FOR RELEASE LABEL USE! company owned by Sony Corporation of America since Oct 1, 2008; operates worldwide except in JP) (in 2005)
recorded at:Musicland Studios (Munich) in München (Munich), Bayern (Bavaria), Germany (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)
sampled by:Nosotros lo hicimos by Duo Kie
Shit by Neil Cicierega (drums (drum set))
mash-ups:Don’t Bring Me Romance by G3RSt
Pwn Monkey (Jonathan Coulton vs. … Well, Everyone) by The Evolution Control Committee
part of:Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (as of October 2023) (number: 215) (order: 215)
recording of:Don’t Bring Me Down (from 1979-03 until 1979-04)

Related works

Don’t Bring Me Down

lyricist and composer:Jeff Lynne
publisher:April Music Ltd.
Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships)
EMI April Music Inc.
EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
EMI Songs
EMI Songs Ltd.
Jet Music Inc.
Jet Music Ltd. (British branch)
Polygon Publishing Ltd.
sub-publisher:イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (EMI Music Publishing Japan Ltd., Sony Division) (until 2021-06-30)
ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., EMI Overseas Division, sub‐publisher for non‐Japanese works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
later parody versions:Don't Bring Me Cows
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