"Call Me" by Blondie

[Boogie Child]

"Love and Passion" was released as a single, but it never hit the Top 40. On the Disco/Dance chart, it was included with "Call Me" and "Night Drive", and I think that they went to #1.

[ol'skinflint]

does anyone here like the Blondie song called "Sunday Girl"? I think it's quite catchy and couldn't understand why it wasn't released as a single. And while we're on the subject of Blondie, I'm reminded that Debbie Harry's solo album "KooKoo" is one of the few Chic productions I wasn't very impressed with....it seemed stiff and sterile to me. And how about the recent "mash up" of Blondie's "Rapture" with the Doors "Riders on the Storm"? Didn't seem to attract as much attention as anticipated. Finally, I heard a Blondie song "One Way or Another" performed by a fake band on "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch"....so bad I changed the channel....

[Bernie]

"Sunday Girl" is really good and I have it as a British 12 inch single, which contains an English and French language version along with "I Know, But I Don't Know." I'll see if I can add this one to the Disco Vault.

[Nano]

Originally Posted by EricHG23

Moroder once said this was written first for Stevie Nicks.

It's probably true. Now the thing is how we should think of it... was Giorgio "offering" tracks to singers or "auditioning" them to see who was best? The answer probably depends on how well known that singer is. But some facts can be surprising:

1) "Call Me" was part of his soundtrack for the 1981 film American Gigolo, directed by Paul Schrader. For the next Schrader film, the 1982 remake of Cat People, Giorgio also composed the score and this time had David Bowie singing (and writing the lyrics of) the title song. Bowie went on to record a different version as filler in his 1983 Let's Dance "comeback" album... But Giorgio's version was the first. Who called who?

2) Between many other film works, Giorgio did produce "Take my breath away" for the Top Gun soundtrack in 1986 (this time the lyrics were by pen-for-hire Tom Whitlock). This time he tried several singers: one of them was Martha Davis from The Motels, who finally released her demo in a recent band compilaton. There was talk of others (I'm not sure but I think Debbie Harry was one). The final version was sung by Terri Nunn and credited to her group Berlin, which incidentally was not German but from Los Angeles.

[discotom73]

I always felt that "Call Me" by Blondie is a disco-rock tune along the same lines of "I Was Made For Lovin' You" by Kiss and "Miss You" by The Rolling Stones. I really like this song since it has catchy hooks as well as "Heart Of Glass".

[Lajazz947]

All I can say is that like most songs " Call me " brings back a flood of memories.

Everytime I hear the song and I can see Richard Geere and all of us wanting toi dress like him and be as cool.

Great song. I don't classify it as a "Disco" song though.

[srg]

I thought "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin had been originally offered to Donna Summer before Berlin but no go..she would've done wonders with it...

[deltablues2]

I believe that Call Me was released in it's single version without Blondie's knowledge. They had worked on the track with Giorgio thinking it would be one way. The song was released with a production that Debbie & the band were not expecting but could do nothing about. Happy accidents.