Debbie Harry on Spending Six Weeks at No. 1 With Blondie's 'Call Me'
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billboard.comAs frontwoman of Blondie, Debbie Harry has been a pop-culture fixture for nearly half a century. The new wave pioneers and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have released 11 studio albums to date, and have sold an estimated 40 million albums worldwide, according to Sony.
They have also earned four career Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s: “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “The Tide is High” and “Rapture.”“As soon as I heard Deborah singing a rough version of ‘Call Me,’ I knew we had a hit,” says Giorgio Moroder, who co-wrote and produced Blondie’s biggest hit alongside Harry for the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo.
The song ruled the Hot 100 for six weeks beginning in April 1980, and finished the year as the No. 1 single of the year in Billboard’s.
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