"Call Me" by Blondie

Marcio** · January 4th, 2006, 06:15 PM

Guitar player Frank Infante of pop/new wave band Blondie said : He [Moroder] had this basic synth track, Debbie had the vocal thing - I did the guitar part that goes 'duddle-a-dah, duddle-a-dah' :)

**FrontPage22** · January 4th, 2006, 07:28 PM

This has never been one of my fave Blondie moments. Then again, I think "Heart of Glass" & "Rapture" were their only dance moments worth mentioning...

"Atomic" & "Call Me" just seemed limp to me.

**neonlights** · January 4th, 2006, 08:56 PM

I love that extended version on the Autoamerican remaster.. Those drums right at the beginning, the guitars with that signature Giorgio synth beat in the back and all those extended solos.. Just plain kicks ass

**efunk_adelic** · January 6th, 2006, 12:33 PM

Originally Written by FrontPage22

This has never been one of my fave Blondie moments. Then again, I think "Heart of Glass" & "Rapture" were their only dance moments worth mentioning...

"Atomic" & "Call Me" just seemed limp to me.

these are some of the songs that helped change the dancefloor to more rock oriented music.

**discofrank** · January 6th, 2006, 08:30 PM

Originally Written by efunk_adelic

Originally Written by FrontPage22

This has never been one of my fave Blondie moments. Then again, I think "Heart of Glass" & "Rapture" were their only dance moments worth mentioning...

"Atomic" & "Call Me" just seemed limp to me.

these are some of the songs that helped change the dancefloor to more rock oriented music.

"Atomic" kicks ass!!!!!!! LOVE it and ALWAYS wished there was a special extended disco mix of this tune. It is MUCH deserved.

**Westwood** · January 7th, 2006, 03:54 AM

HOw can you not like "Call Me"? It's one of the best songs of the 80s man!
Anyway, about an Extended version of "Atomic". There is one!
When Blondie began being remixed in the early 90s (Blondie-Beautiful-The Remix Album, Remixed-Remade-Remodeled) Atomic was reissued and the USA got the Dbl vinyl treatment (yey) and they included a NEW Extended Disco version called New Disco Mix and you'd swear it was a genuine one done in the 70s!
It was in 1994, the mix is also on the 2CD part set in the UK.

**discofrank** · January 7th, 2006, 12:25 PM

Originally Written by Westwood

HOw can you not like "Call Me"? It's one of the best songs of the 80s man!
Anyway, about an Extended version of "Atomic". There is one!
When Blondie began being remixed in the early 90s (Blondie-Beautiful-The Remix Album, Remixed-Remade-Remodeled) Atomic was reissued and the USA got the Dbl vinyl treatment (yey) and they included a NEW Extended Disco version called New Disco Mix and you'd swear it was a genuine one done in the 70s!
It was in 1994, the mix is also on the 2CD part set in the UK.

I have this dbl lp. The "new disco mix" is NOT a genuine one. I have posted a similar thread concerning this a few months back - and someone told me there was an extremelly rare 12" release with extended breaks and all the good stuff an original would have... Never seen it - or heard about it since then, and I'm always hunting.

**kaliffen** · January 9th, 2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Written by discofrank

Originally Written by Westwood

HOw can you not like "Call Me"? It's one of the best songs of the 80s man!
Anyway, about an Extended version of "Atomic". There is one!
When Blondie began being remixed in the early 90s (Blondie-Beautiful-The Remix Album, Remixed-Remade-Remodeled) Atomic was reissued and the USA got the Dbl vinyl treatment (yey) and they included a NEW Extended Disco version called New Disco Mix and you'd swear it was a genuine one done in the 70s!
It was in 1994, the mix is also on the 2CD part set in the UK.

I have this dbl lp. The "new disco mix" is NOT a genuine one. I have posted a similar thread concerning this a few months back - and someone told me there was an extremelly rare 12" release with extended breaks and all the good stuff an original would have... Never seen it - or heard about it since then, and I'm always hunting.

http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?cat...73&adtype=1558
And the extended version
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?cat...01&adtype=1558

**discofrank** · January 9th, 2006, 05:41 PM

Originally Written by kaliffen

Originally Written by discofrank

Originally Written by Westwood

HOw can you not like "Call Me"? It's one of the best songs of the 80s man!
Anyway, about an Extended version of "Atomic". There is one!
When Blondie began being remixed in the early 90s (Blondie-Beautiful-The Remix Album, Remixed-Remade-Remodeled) Atomic was reissued and the USA got the Dbl vinyl treatment (yey) and they included a NEW Extended Disco version called New Disco Mix and you'd swear it was a genuine one done in the 70s!
It was in 1994, the mix is also on the 2CD part set in the UK.

I have this dbl lp. The "new disco mix" is NOT a genuine one. I have posted a similar thread concerning this a few months back - and someone told me there was an extremelly rare 12" release with extended breaks and all the good stuff an original would have... Never seen it - or heard about it since then, and I'm always hunting.

http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?cat...73&adtype=1558
And the extended version
http://eil.com/shop/moreinfo.asp?cat...01&adtype=1558

Thank you for the links - but on both these releases atomic is featured as the LP version 4 something minutes and the single version 3 something minutes... :(

**FrontPage22** · January 9th, 2006, 06:58 PM

As far as I am aware, there ne'er was an extended 12" in 79 when the cut appeared, just the LP mix from "Eat To The Beat".

I guess I irked a few folk when I dissed these two cuts. I just thought "Atomic" was too disco by half.

"Live It Up" from "autoamerican" is a rarely mentioned Blondie track, and did have an extended mix if I am not mistaken...promo only though.

**WolverSyr** · January 13th, 2006, 03:00 PM

Hmmm My first post & how appropriate...in a Blondie thread. One of my favorite bands.

The extended Live It Up is on the B-Side of the Rapture 12."
Nice version. I believe I bought it as an import. I still see it on the used records sites now & then.

Atomic was released as a UK 12". Unfortunatly it was not an extended version. The appeal was the B-side - a live version of David Bowie's "Heroes".

**EricHG23** · January 17th, 2006, 07:56 PM

Moroder once said this was written first for Stevie Nicks.

Regarldess I usually think of it more as a Moroder/Harry track than Blondie but that coul dbe unfair. the full logn version is *incredible* prob my fave disco/rock fusion song and I think it still sounds great now (I liek the whole American Gigolo soudntrack though this is the only dance track). I find the regular edit hard to listen to though

I also love Atomic. Xenomania did a mid 90s mix that isn't too badly updated and sounds pretty good

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**Boogie Child** · January 18th, 2006, 10:05 AM

"Love and Passion" by Cheryl Barnes is another great dance song from the 'American Gigolo" sountrack.

**EricHG23** · January 23rd, 2006, 10:06 PM

Originally Written by Boogie Child

"Love and Passion" by Cheryl Barnes is another great dance song from the 'American Gigolo" sountrack.

Was Love and Pasison a single? it's kinda atypical of Moroder disco though the song has grown on me (i didn't play it much at first) still nothign as insistant as Call me

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**discogazebo** · January 30th, 2006, 09:58 AM

[b]Callme isn't one of my favourite Blondie songs. As a matter of fact, I do not think that Blondie was such a great disco group. I mean, I adore Blondie as a new wave/pop-group but the disco songs arenät their best. A IG[b]
exception is "Atomic", I just love it

**Boogie Child** · January 31st, 2006, 09:26 AM

"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** · January 18th, 2007, 01:10 PM

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** · January 18th, 2007, 01:58 PM

"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** · January 18th, 2007, 04:03 PM

Originally Written 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** · January 23rd, 2007, 07:27 AM

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** · January 28th, 2007, 03:38 PM

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** · January 29th, 2007, 07:36 PM

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** · February 2nd, 2007, 04:09 AM

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.