I think the American people suffer from a lack of press. Everything is really spread out and regional. Harry explained "Things take longer to catch on here. The single failed to chart in the US, but it eventually reached number five in the UK in November 1978. Release īlondie released their cover of "Hanging on the Telephone" the second single from their 1978 album Parallel Lines in both the US and UK.
This percussion style also appeared on other power pop singles from the period, like the Romantics' 1978 release "Tell It to Carrie". Let's give it a try! '" Like one of Blondie's subsequent singles, " Sunday Girl", "Hanging on the Telephone" employs a double backbeat rhythm in its drumming pattern, meaning the "off" beats alternate between a quarter note and two eighth notes. The idea was proposed by producer Mike Chapman he recalled "The Blondies all thought that was stupid and too gimmicky, but I said, 'C'mon, guys! Gimmicky? This is Blondie. They were going to cut off our electricity at six o'clock, the phone too." The band also performed a version of the Lee-penned track, "Will Anything Happen", on Parallel Lines.īlondie's version of the song begins with a sound effect of a telephone ringing. Lee had been financially struggling at the time he recalled the moment the band called him to ask permission to cover the song. When we came back to the US, we found that the Nerves weren't together anymore and we said, 'Gee, we should record this.'
#Blondie hanging on the telephone driver#
We were playing it in the back of a taxicab in Tokyo, and the taxicab driver started tapping his hand on the steering wheel. Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry explained: The band discovered the song after Jeffrey Lee Pierce of the Gun Club sent the band a cassette of the track. The song was later popularized by new wave band Blondie, who covered the track on their 1978 album, Parallel Lines. Long after the song's eventual commercial success, Lee reflected "Even people who hated me – and there were plenty – had to admit it was great." The song appeared as the lead-off track on the Nerves's 1976 EP however, the release was a commercial failure and became the group's only release. "Hanging on the Telephone" was originally written by Jack Lee for his band, the Nerves. The single was a top five hit in the UK and has since seen critical acclaim as one of the band's best songs. Beginning with a phone sound-effect courtesy of producer Mike Chapman, Blondie's version of the song was released on the band's breakthrough third album, Parallel Lines. The song was released in 1976 by his short-lived US West Coast power pop band The Nerves in 1978, it was recorded and released as a single by American new wave band Blondie.īlondie had discovered the song via a cassette tape compilation which Jeffrey Lee Pierce had given the band. " Hanging on the Telephone" is a song written by Jack Lee.
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