05 March 2009

Blondie "Call Me"



"Call Me" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie released in 1980. The song topped the singles charts in both the US (where it bacame the band's biggest selling single) and the UK (where it became their fourth no.1 hit). The single was released in the United States in February 1980. It peaked at #1 for 6 weeks, and was certified Gold (for one million copies sold) by the RIAA. It also spent four weeks at number two on the U.S. Dance chart. 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 from the 1980s. Twenty-five years after its original release, "Call Me" was ranked at #283 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song lists at #44 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. The song was the main theme of the film American Gigolo. [Wikipedia]

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