In 2014, keyboardist-composer Harold Faltermeyer remembered the recording process as having three main sections: first Giorgio Moroder and his music crew recorded an instrumental version of the song at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, with the tape locked to SMPTE timecode so that it would synchronize with the film. Then the project moved to New York for the Blondie recording session, at which the band surprised Moroder by insisting they would play their own parts. Faltermeyer was engineering when Debbie Harry sang and Chris Stein played electric guitar. Stein's guitar and amplifier were buzzing and noisy, so his setup was repaired to get a clean recording. The band had difficulty locking to sync, so Moroder stopped the unfinished sessions to save time and took the project back to Los Angeles to more quickly add the final parts with his own picked musicians, including a keyboard solo by Faltermeyer. Blondie keyboard player Jimmy Destri did not like Faltermeyer's solo and would have preferred his own version. Faltermeyer said the band was angry about being replaced by session players but the song turned out to be very successful, so they took it in stride.
My collection: 7" single no. 8425
Found: De Waterput, Bergen op Zoom, 17 September 2026
Tracks: 'Call me' / 'Call me (instrumental)'
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