I Don’t Like Mondays launched The Boomtown Rats into world stardom and it reached number 1 in the UK chart.
It was released on Ensign in the UK,Mulligan in Ireland,Columbia in the USA and Philips in Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe) and on the Mercury label everywhere else.
It was the first Boomtown Rats single to be sold in South America.
In Brazil and Chile it was sold as I Don’t Like Mondays but in Argentina,Ecuador,Peru and Mexico it was sold as No Me Gustan Los Lunes.
All copies had It’s all The Rage on the b-side exept the Mexican copy which had Diamond Smiles(Sonrisas De Diamante).
Argentina b-side is Es La Ultima Moda
Ecuador b-side is Todo Esta En Boga
Peru b-side is E’s Toda La Colera.
UPDATE. Also released in the Philippines on Mercury.
There is also a 12”promo from the USA with I Don’t Like Mondays live with Someone’s Looking At You and Do The Rat on the-side.
Released in countries like Canada,all of Western Europe,South Africa,Japan,New Zealand and Australia.
12” promo from the USA
Rhodesia(Zimbabwe)
Ecuador
Argentina
Japan
Mexico(with Diamond Smiles(Sonrisas De Diamanté) on the b-side).
Hi Delboy,
I had this one before I sold everything. Vaguely recall it was b-side for Someone’s Looking at You 7”. Presumably you acquired this too? Be amazed if not 😂.
Wow!♥️
How much work/effort does it take to track down copies of these?
I didn’t know about the translated titles, very interesting, thank you for sharing! Also interesting that Peru had a different (literal?) translation than Ecuador.