Call Me Lyrics by Blondie. After breaking into the US charts in 1978 with their third album Parallel Lines and the hit single “Heart of Glass”, new wave/punk rock band Blondie exploded in 1980 when they contributed the theme song for American Gigolo, Call Me. In the movie, Richard Gere plays a high price male escort who get involved with a politician’s wife and is eventually the prime suspect in a murder case.
It was written and directed by Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull for Martin Scorsese. For the movie’s soundtrack, Italian disco producer Giorgio Moroder composed the score and originally went to Stevie Nicks to see if she would create the movie’s theme song but she had just signed a contract with a new record label and had to decline.
Moroder then went to Debbie Harry and Blondie with a rough track called “Man Machine” and had Harry write lyrics and the melody for the song that would eventually become Call Me, a process that Harry said basically took a few hours. Call Me went on to become both Blondie’s biggest ever hit, staying at #1 for six weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and the biggest hit of 1980 and the best selling single of 1980.
Call Me (1980)
Color me your color, baby
Color me your car
Color me your color, darling
I know who you are
Come up off your color chart
I know where you’re coming from
Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) I’ll arrive
You can call me any day or night
Call me
Cover me with kisses, baby
Cover me with love
Roll me in designer sheets
I’ll never get enough
Emotions come, I don’t know why
Cover up love’s alibi
Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) I’ll arrive
When you’re ready we can share the wine
Call me
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
He speaks the languages of love
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Amore, chiamami, chiamami
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh
Appelle-moi mon cheri, appelle-moi
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any way
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any day
Call me (call me) my love
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me) for a ride
Call me, call me for some overtime
Call me (call me) in my life
Call me, call me in a sweet design
Call me (call me), call me for your lover’s, lover’s alibi
Call me (call me) on the line
Call me, call me any, anytime
Call me (call me)
Ah-ah, call me, mmh-mmh, ah
Call me (call me), my love
Call me, call me any
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