Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone • TopPop

’Hanging On The Telephone’ is a track from the album ’Parallel Lines’, Blondie’s third and most succesfull album. It was released on September 23, 1978, and reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979. The album proved to be the band’s commercial breakthrough in the United States where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in the top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album had sold over 20 million copies worldwide. Blondie performed a TV Special for TopPop on 28 August 1978, almost a month before the release of the album! At the special Debbie Harry and Blondie recorded no less than 7 songs from the album, of which many became big hits, such as: ’Heart Of Glass’ and ’Sunday Girl’. ’Hanging On The Telephone’ was released as a single and reached #20 in the Dutch Top 40 and #5 in the UK. This song was a cover from the original by The Nerves, an American power pop trio from the 1970’s, based in Los Angeles, featuring guitarist Jack Lee, who wrote the song. Recorded and broadcast date: 28 August 1978 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.