We’ve SUNG ALONG to This 80s #1 for Years & Now Find OUT it’s About a MALE HOOKER?—Professor of Rock

It was the biggest song of 1980, by a band that defied all classification. Blondie. I mean you just couldn’t put this band in a box. With connections to new wave, rock, punk, disco, reggae, and r&b, you never knew what you were going to get with Blondie. Versatile and experimental, they were musical chameleons. So it’s no surprise that they jumped at the chance to try something new when the opportunity came knocking… Even if they were the 2nd choice...the chance to headline a movie soundtrack with a completely new sound. Call Me became a 6-week #1 smash. Enter an eccentric Italian producer named Giorgio Moroder who worked tirelessly; to write the perfect song for this band… only Blondie's phenomenal front-woman Deborah Harry liked the music but re-wrote the lyrics on the fly after watching a rough cut of this movie. As you’ll find out, the song was better than the movie. In the end, though, the song was put on the soundtrack and not this band’s new album denying them millions of album sales... Find out why NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you have ever sworn out loud in frustration when reading Rolling Stone’s best singer, guitarist or bands lists that they put out every so often you’ll dig this channel of musical nostalgia… Subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. We also have a Patreon you'll want to check out. There you’ll find an additional catalog of exclusive content and you can even become an honorary producer to help us curate this music history. Today we are covering one of the most successful acts of the late 70s and early 80s… Blondie. In past episodes, we’ve given you the stories behind some of their biggest hits, including Heart of Glass, One Way or Another, and Rapture. But this time around we are dialing up an absolute monster… their 1980 hit single Call Me.
So in 1982, Blondie producer Mike Chapman made a bold claim about his third project with the band: 1980’s Autoamerican. Said Chapman, “While we were making Eat To the Beat, I felt [Blondie was] something like the new Beatles, because they came up with these extraordinary ideas, so many hits. By the time we came to make Autoamerican, I guess it was their Sgt. Pepper, because it's a very unusual album, a collection of a million different styles.”
A Sgt. Pepper comparison is a strong assertion for any band to make. Remember when Terrence Trent Darby compared himself to them it pretty much killed his career. But bold or not, Chapman’s comments underscore an important truth about Blondie. This band was eclectic and they freely crossed so-called genre boundaries. Although Blondie formed as far back as 1974, their classic line-up wouldn’t coalesce until 1978. The six-piece outfit consisted of vocalist Debbie Harry, guitarist Chris Stein, drummer Clem Burke, bassist Gary Valentine, keyboardist Jimmy Destri, bassist Nigel Harrison, and guitarist Frank Infante Blondie was never gun-shy about experimenting with a broad spectrum of styles. Innovation was in their DNA. One of the most important and influential bands of the new wave movement, their sound readily incorporated elements of punk, rock, disco, reggae, hip-hop, and rap…