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Don't Throw Stones (song)

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"Don't Throw Stones"
United Kingdom cover
Single by The Sports
from the album Don't Throw Stones
ReleasedFebruary 1979
RecordedArmstrong Studios, Melbourne.
Genre
Length3:23
LabelMushroom Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Peter Solley
The Sports singles chronology
"Who Listens to the Radio"
(1978)
"Don't Throw Stones"
(1979)
"Suspicious Minds"
(1979)

"Don't Throw Stones" is a song recorded by Australian rock band The Sports. The song was written by band members Stephen Cummings and Andrew Pendlebury. Released in February 1979 as the second single from the band's second studio album, Don't Throw Stones (1979), the song peaked at number 26 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

In January 2018, as part of Triple M's "Ozzest 100", the 'most Australian' songs of all time, "Don't Throw Stones" was ranked number 86.[1]

Reception

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Cash Box magazine said "Lead singer Steve Cummings' forceful vocals should sell AOR, pop programmers on this track."[2]

Track listing

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Australian 7" single (K 7383)
  • Side A "Don't Throw Stones" - 3:23
  • Side B "Terror Hits" - 3:41
North American 7" single (Arista – AS 0482)
  • Side A "Don't Throw Stones" - 2:58
  • Side B "Mailed It to Your Sister" - 2:47
United Kingdom 7" single (Sire – SIR 6002)
  • Side A "Don't Throw Stones" - 2:58
  • Side B "The Worst Kind"

Charts

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Chart (1979) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[3] 36

References

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  1. ^ "Here Are The Songs That Made Triple M's 'Ozzest 100'". Musicfeeds. 27 January 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Singles to Watch" (PDF). Cash Box. 15 December 1979. p. 11. Retrieved 1 December 2021 – via World Radio History.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. p. 288. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian singles and albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.