"Call Me (Blondie song) ""Call Me"" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie and the theme to the 1980 film ""American Gigolo"". Released in the US in early 1980 as a single, ""Call Me"" was number one for six consecutive weeks on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, where it became the band's biggest single and second No. 1. It also hit No. 1 in the UK and Canada, where it became their fourth and second chart-topper, respectively. In the year-end chart of 1980, it was ""Billboard""s No. 1 single and ""RPM"" magazine's No. 3 in Canada. ""Call"
"clothing for the smaller actor. The film's musical score was composed by Giorgio Moroder, who was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The main theme song of the film is ""Call Me"" performed by Blondie. The song was written by Moroder and Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry, and became a huge worldwide success in 1980. It peaked at number one in several countries including the US and the UK, and became the highest-selling single of 1980 in the United States. In 1981, the song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a"
"one million copies sold) by the RIAA. It also spent four weeks at No. 2 on the US dance chart. The single was also No. 1 on ""Billboard"" magazine's 1980 year-end chart. The song lists at No. 57 on ""Billboard's All Time Top 100"". It was released in the UK two months later, where it became Blondie's fourth UK No. 1 single in little over a year. The song was also played on a British Telecom advert in the 1980s. 25 years after its original release, ""Call Me"" was ranked at No. 283 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500"
"the result of Debbie Harry's collaboration with the Italian songwriter and producer Giorgio Moroder, who had been responsible for Donna Summer's biggest hits. The track was recorded as the title theme of the Richard Gere film ""American Gigolo"". Released in February 1980 in the US, ""Call Me"" spent six consecutive weeks at No. 1 in the US and Canada, reached No. 1 in the U.K. (where it was released in April 1980) and became a hit throughout the world. The single was also No. 1 on ""Billboard"" magazine's 1980 year-end chart. In the summer of 1980, the band appeared in"
"number-one single ""Call Me"" by Blondie. Schrader considers it one of four similar films, which he calls ""double bookends"": ""Taxi Driver"", bookended by ""Light Sleeper"", and ""American Gigolo"" bookended by ""The Walker"". Julian Kaye is a male escort in Los Angeles, whose job supports and requires an expensive taste in cars and clothes, and affords him a luxury Westwood apartment. He is blatantly materialistic, narcissistic and superficial. However, he takes pleasure in his work from being able to sexually satisfy women, especially older ones. Julian's procurer, Anne, sends him on an assignment with a wealthy old widow, Mrs. Dobrun, who"
"for Blondie, ocarina for Angel Eyes, and human voices for Tuco. The score complements the film's American Civil War setting, containing the mournful ballad, ""The Story of a Soldier"", which is sung by prisoners as Tuco is being tortured by Angel Eyes. The film's climax, a three-way Mexican standoff, begins with the melody of ""The Ecstasy of Gold"" and is followed by ""The Trio"". Today, the iconic theme is considered one of the greatest instrumental film scores of all time. The main theme also titled ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" was a hit in 1968 with the soundtrack"
"b-side hit single ""Call Me"". The writers of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine placed Dusty Springfield's recording at #77 among ""The 100 Best Singles of the Last 25 Years"" in 1987. The record was placed at #43 of the ""Greatest Singles of All Time"" by the writers of ""New Musical Express"" in 2002. In 2004, the song made the ""Rolling Stone"" list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No. 240. In 1994, the song was featured in a scene of the film ""Pulp Fiction"". The film's soundtrack reached #21 on the Billboard 200 and went platinum (100,000 units) in"
"rock and disco which had proven to be so successful in their No.1 hit from earlier in 1979, ""Heart of Glass"". It is written in E natural minor (""Call Me"" is written in E♭ natural minor). The 1980 single version of ""Atomic"" was a remix. The original 4:35 version as featured on the albums ""Eat to the Beat"" and 1981's ""The Best of Blondie"" opens with an intro inspired by the nursery rhyme ""Three Blind Mice"" and includes an instrumental break with a bass guitar solo. The 7"" version mixed by Mike Chapman omits the ""Three Blind Mice"" intro and"
"Call Me (film) Call Me is a 1988 American erotic thriller film about a woman who strikes up a relationship with a stranger over the phone, and in the process becomes entangled in a murder. The film was directed by Sollace Mitchell, and stars Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, and Boyd Gaines. After its theatrical run, the movie was released on videocassette by Vestron Video. Anna, a young and energetic journalist, receives an obscene call from an unknown caller whom she mistakes for her boyfriend. As a result of this mistake she agrees to meet with the caller at a local"
"in a Blondie song, ""Man Overboard"", from the album ""Blondie"" (1976). 7"" 12"" Free to Fall ""Free to Fall"" is a 1987 song by the American vocalist Debbie Harry, taken from her second solo album ""Rockbird"" (1986). It was released as the second single in the U.S. and the UK. Suffering from lack of record company promotion, the single failed to chart on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 or any other significant U.S. chart, and peaked at no.46 in the UK. The B-side to the single, ""Feel the Spin"", was a previous U.S. dance hit from the soundtrack to the film"
"intro sequence the song ""Call Me"" is played, making it another music video. ""Sunday Girl"" (incomplete) is played during the end credits. ""The Best of Blondie"" video album was rereleased on DVD in 2002 as a part of ""Greatest Video Hits"" to coincide with the release of the CD ""Greatest Hits"". However, the songs ""Call Me"" and ""Sunday Girl"" were omitted from the track listing, but not from the video itself. The Best of Blondie The Best of Blondie (released in Germany and the Netherlands as Blondie's Hits) is the first compilation album by the band Blondie. Released in October"
"39). The lead track off the album, ""Dreaming"", narrowly missed the top spot in the UK, but only made it to number 27 in the US. ""Union City Blue"" (UK No. 13) was not released in the US in favor of the track ""The Hardest Part"". In a daring move, Chrysalis Records' Linda Carhart asked Jon Roseman Productions US division to shoot videos for every song and make it the first ever video album. David Mallet directed and Paul Flattery produced it at various locations and studios in and around New York. Blondie's next single, the Grammy-nominated ""Call Me"", was"
"Tracks Across America Tour '82 The Tracks Across America Tour '82 is the last concert tour by American band Blondie during its original existence. The tour supported their latest album, ""The Hunter"", and was the first tour since European Tour 1979-'80 which supported the 1979 album ""Eat to the Beat"". Though the tour nominally supported the album ""The Hunter"", songs from ""Autoamerican"" also saw the first live performances since there was no tour in support. Non-album hit single ""Call Me"" and Debbie Harry's solo ""Chrome"" were also performed live for the first time. For the tour guitarist Frank Infante was"
"with the disco backlash in the US, the tracks were left unreleased. Although disco music had been declared ""dead"" in the US in a backlash in 1979, several songs which continued and advanced the exuberant surge of uptempo dance music managed to scale the US pop charts in the intervening years, notably Blondie's ""Call Me"" in 1980, Laura Branigan's ""Gloria"" in 1982, and Irene Cara's ""Flashdance (What A Feeling)"" in 1983. Unwilling to use the term ""disco"", the phrase ""high energy"" had come into usage, probably begun in England in the early 1980s. By 1984 Ian Levine had re-established himself"
"Blondie (band) Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave and punk scenes of the mid-late 1970s. Its first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although successful in the United Kingdom and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of ""Parallel Lines"" in 1978. Over the next three years, the band achieved several hit singles including ""Heart of Glass"", ""Call Me"", ""Rapture"" and ""The Tide Is High"" and became noted for"
"a bit part in the film ""Roadie"" starring Meat Loaf. Blondie performed the Johnny Cash song ""Ring of Fire"". The live recording was featured on the film soundtrack, and on a later CD reissue of the ""Eat to the Beat"" album. In November 1980, Blondie's fifth studio album, ""Autoamerican"" (UK No. 3, US No. 7, Australia No. 8) was released; it contained two more No. 1 US hits: the reggae-styled ""The Tide Is High"", a cover version of a 1967 song written by John Holt of the Paragons, and the rap-flavored ""Rapture"", which was the first song featuring rapping to"
"The song was released as a single in 1982, and Bowie included a re-recorded version of the song on his album ""Let's Dance"" (1983). Bowie performed the song live regularly during his 1983 ""Serious Moonlight"" tour. The song was also used in Quentin Tarantino's film ""Inglourious Basterds"" (2009) and Charlize Theron’s spy thriller ""Atomic Blonde"" (2017). Bowie's re-recording had guitar by a then-unknown Stevie Ray Vaughan. All compositions by Moroder, lyrics by David Bowie on ""Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"". Cat People (1982 film) Cat People is a 1982 American erotic horror film directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nastassja"
"(1980), giving Blondie their third number one single on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and their fifth in the UK (where it became Blondie's last British number one for 18 years, until ""Maria"" in February 1999). The track also reached number one in Canada and New Zealand, and was a Top 5 hit on many European charts as well as in countries including Australia and South Africa. The B-side was ""Suzie & Jeffrey"", which appeared as a bonus track on the original 1980 cassette edition of the ""Autoamerican"" album, and was also included on EMI-Capitol's re-issue of ""Autoamerican"" in"
"to the Beat"" album (UK #1, US #17) in 1979. ""Autoamerican"" (UK #3, US #7) was released in 1980. Blondie had further #1 hits with ""Call Me"" (American Gigolo soundtrack), ""The Tide Is High"", ""Atomic"" (Eat to the Beat album) (UK #1) and ""Rapture"" (US #1). During this time, both Harry and Stein befriended graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy, who introduced them to the emerging hip-hop scene in the Bronx. Freddy is mentioned in ""Rapture"" and also makes an appearance in the video. Through him they were also able to connect with Grandmaster Flash. Harry was immortalised by Andy Warhol"
"Blondie's hit ""Call Me"" as a duet. The single peaked at No. 4 on the Italian Dance Singles Sales Chart. During the summer of 2010 she hosted the prime time TV-show ""Mitici 80"" on Italia 1. In 2012, Sabrina starred as herself in the French movie ""Stars 80"", directed by Frédéric Forestier and produced by Thomas Langmann, and was on another RFM tour in France. In 2013, Sabrina featured on Neon Neon's song ""Shopping (I Like To)"", from the duo's second studio album ""Praxis Makes Perfect"". During the same year, she continued touring in France with the RFM Party and"
"When a Stranger Calls (1979 film) When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological horror film. It was directed by Fred Walton and stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning. The film derives its story from the classic folk legend of ""The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs"" and the 1974 horror classic ""Black Christmas"". The film was commercially successful, grossing $21,411,158 at the box office, though it received a mixed critical reception. It was followed by the 1993 made-for-television sequel ""When a Stranger Calls Back"" and a remake in 2006. The film has developed a cult following over time because"
"had originally been offered to Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, but Nicks declined and Blondie instead recorded the song with lyrics by lead vocalist Debbie Harry. The single, released on Blondie's label Chrysalis Records in February 1980, was a number one hit in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and a top ten hit in most other parts of the world. It was No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts for six weeks and named Billboard's No. 1 song of 1980. The song is listed at No. 44 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. In 1981, the song was also nominated"
"through it). The single reached #43 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, #29 on the Hot Dance Club Songs, and #32 on the UK Singles Chart. ""The Jam Was Moving"" was lifted as the second single and peaked at No. 82 in the US. After Blondie split up in 1982, Harry's solo output slowed down as she cared for ailing partner Chris Stein. She released the single ""Rush Rush"" in 1983 (produced by Giorgio Moroder and taken from the film ""Scarface""), but it was commercially unsuccessful. A new single, ""Feel The Spin"" (taken from the film ""Krush Groove""), was released as"
"Call of the Flesh Call of the Flesh is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Charles Brabin. The film stars Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, and Renée Adorée. It featured several songs performed by Novarro and originally included a sequence photographed in Technicolor. In Seville, Spain, a cantina is located across the street from San Agustín convent. At the convent, postulant Maria Consuelo Vargas (Dorothy Jordan) receives a visit from her brother, Captain Enrique Vargas (Russell Hopton). They have not seen each other in seven years, as he has been stationed in Africa. During the intervening time, their mother"
"cast, the band was relatively unknown but this changed when ""Heart of Glass"" hit #1 in the US midway through filming. As director Marcus Reichert would later recall, she was forbidden to sing on the film's soundtrack for contractual reasons but her experiences led to the recording of the Blondie song ""Union City Blue"". Reichert also cast singer Pat Benatar, soon to make a mainstream breakthrough in the pop charts, in a featured role. Deborah Harry's partner and fellow Blondie member Chris Stein performed the film's original score. The short story written by Cornell Woolrich had been set in the"
"Blondie (1938 film) Blondie is a 1938 movie directed by Frank Strayer, based on the comic strip of the same name, created by Chic Young. The screenplay was written by Richard Flournoy. This was the first of 28 films based on the comic strip; Columbia Pictures produced them from 1938 to 1943, and popular demand brought them back in 1945. When the ""Blondie"" film series came to an end with ""Beware of Blondie"" in 1950, it was announced that it would be replaced with a series of ""Gasoline Alley"" movies. However, only two such films were made, ""Gasoline Alley"" (1951)"
"Blue"" was also included on the compilations """" (UK) and """" (US). The song has been covered on several occasions, notably by The Railway Children and Radiohead. The song is featured in the 1981 horror film ""The Hand"", as well as the 2007 dark comedy, ""Margot at the Wedding"". Union City Blue ""Union City Blue"" is a song by the US rock band Blondie. It was written by Debbie Harry and Nigel Harrison, and was featured on their fourth studio album ""Eat to the Beat"" from 1979. The tune was inspired by the 1979 movie ""Union City"", which Debbie Harry"
"could potentially be accommodated within a PG rating, Heffner argued that this film's treatment of its theme was too unsettling for most parents to want it to be freely available to unaccompanied children. A majority vote was then received to assign the film its R rating. When a Stranger Calls (1979 film) When a Stranger Calls is a 1979 American psychological horror film. It was directed by Fred Walton and stars Carol Kane and Charles Durning. The film derives its story from the classic folk legend of ""The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs"" and the 1974 horror classic ""Black Christmas""."
"Union City Blue ""Union City Blue"" is a song by the US rock band Blondie. It was written by Debbie Harry and Nigel Harrison, and was featured on their fourth studio album ""Eat to the Beat"" from 1979. The tune was inspired by the 1979 movie ""Union City"", which Debbie Harry appeared in (she wrote the lyrics one evening during a break in the shooting). The song was released as the second single from the album in the United Kingdom, where it reached no. 13 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1979; it was never released as a single"
"(1978). The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie is a compilation album released on Chrysalis Records in 1991. It contained all of Blondie's biggest hits such as ""Heart of Glass"", ""Sunday Girl"", ""The Tide Is High"", ""Atomic"", and ""Call Me"" as well as some of Deborah Harry's solo hits, including the UK Top 10 single ""French Kissin' in the USA"". ""The Complete Picture"" was a success in the UK and reached Number 3 in the UK Album Chart, remaining on the charts for 25 weeks"
"and has been used many times in movies, notably ""Frantic"", starring Harrison Ford. When announcing the song, the DJs would often refer to Montez as a female. But by the time the album was released, Montez's pictures on the front and back of the jacket cleared up any mystery surrounding his gender, as explained in the album's notes on the back of the record jacket. Released in November 1965, ""Call Me"" entered the Easy Listening Top 40 in ""Billboard"" that December, entering the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in January 1966; that March ""Call Me"" peaked on the Easy Listening chart at"
"Call Me (Spagna song) ""Call Me"" is a 1987 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna. It was the second single from her debut album ""Dedicated to the Moon"", on which it features as first track. The single was released in 1987 in most European countries. The video for the song was filmed in and around Nottingham. The majority of the video was filmed in and around the 'Ritzy' nightclub, with the nearby Belvoir Castle also featuring. Unlike the previous single ""Easy Lady"", this song was also released in Japan and America. A 'U.S. Remix' was made by Steve Thompson"
"the movie was becoming successful, so was ""Stand by Me"". The song rose to the top of the Country charts in 1980, and hitting the Top 5 of the Adult Contemporary charts, as well as making the Pop Top 40. The song turned Gilley into a pop-country crossover success, yet, despite it being his only Adult Contemporary hit, it did become one of his signature songs. ""Room Full of Roses"", ""True Love Ways,"" and ""You Don't Know Me"" also hit the Billboard Hot 100; additionally, ""Bring It On Home To Me,"" ""That's All That Matters"" and ""Talk to Me"" bubbled"