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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

length: 3:30-32 [depending on edition]
written by: Giorgio Moroder & Debbie Harry
produced by: Giorgio Moroder
released: January 1980
highest Australian singles chart position: #1
highest Billboard hot 100 chart position: #1
highest Billboard hot dance club play chart position: #1
highest Billboard pop chart position: #1
highest UK singles chart position: #1

(sheet music)

FEATURED ON

Call Me [single] (1980)

American Gigolo [soundtrack] (1980)

Live In Toronto [live album] (2006)
Live By Request [live album] (2004)
Autoamerican [album] [remastered] (2001)
Livid/Live [live album] (2000)
No Exit [album] (1999)
Remixed Remade Remodeled [remix album] (July 18, 1995)
Beautiful - The Remix Album [remix album] (1995)
Once More Into The Bleach [remix album] (1988)

I Can See Clearly [single] (1993)
Call Me (remix) [single] (1989)

REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

■ (The) Ben Liebrand remix (7:00)
■ Debbie Does Dallas mix
■ edit (3:30)
■ E-Smoove's Beat Vocal mix (7:14)
■ Spanish version (3:30)
■ Spanish version - extended (6:23)
■ instrumental (3:27)
■ instrumental - extended (6:10)
■ original 12" version (aka original long version) (8:08)

MUSIC VIDEO

Call Me
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CALL ME

Call on me oh call up baby call on me oh call call on me oh call up darling I know who you are come up off your calling 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 of 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

Oh he speaks the languages of love oh amore chiamami (chiamami) oh appelle-moi mon cheri (appelle-moi) anytime anyplace anywhere anyway 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) my love call me call me in a sweet design call me call me for your lover's lover's alibi call me (call me) I don't mind call me call me any anytime call me oh call me ooh ooh ah call me my love call me call me any anytime

COMMENTS

quoted from the book 'Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che' - 1999

"1980 continued on a high note with disco maven Gorgio Moroder asking Blondie to do the theme song for a new Paul Schrader movie, American Gigolo. Moroder had first offered the song to Stevie Nicks, but after she declined, he called to offer it to Harry. It was their first job as guns to hire, and the effort would produce Blondie's biggest hit of all time - 'Call Me.' The title of the song was copped from the movie's gigolo antihero, played by Richard Gere. Harry liked the movie a lot, but rejected Moroder's lyrics ideas and rewrote the song herself. 'Call Me' was then recorded in two days in New York, incorporating a synthesizer track Moroder had made in LA. 'Call Me' became Blondie's second number one single in the US, and Billboard's number one song of the year."

source: wikipedia.org

"The song was the main theme of the film 'American Gigolo', starring Richard Gere. European disco producer Giorgio Moroder originally asked Stevie Nicks to help compose and perform a song for the soundtrack, but she refused. It was at this time that Moroder turned to Debbie Harry. Moroder presented Harry with a rough instrumental track called 'Man Machine.' Harry was asked to write the lyrics and melody, a process that Harry states took only a few hours. The completed song was then recorded by the band, with Moroder producing.

Blondie also released the song in Mexico and other South American countries as 'Llámame', complete with translated Spanish lyrics.

The single was released in the United States in early 1980 to promote the film and quickly sold enough copies to be certified as the top-selling single for the year. It was released weeks later in Britain to a similar volume of sales.

Twenty-five years after its original release, the acclaim surrounding 'Call Me' led to its ranking at #283 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."