Hanging on the Telephone

"Hanging on the Telephone" is a song written by Jack Lee. It was first performed by his short-lived US West Coast power pop trio The Nerves.



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[hide]  *1 Background  ==Background[ edit] == The tune was the lead-off track on The Nerves's 1976 EP, the group's only release. New wave band Blondie later popularised the "Hanging on the Telephone", when it released a cover of the song as the second single off Parallel Lines in both the US and UK. The tune eventually reached number 5 in the UK in November 1978, as well as inspired other cover versions.
 * 2 Release history
 * 3 Chart peak positions
 * 4 Cover versions and appearances in other media
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Like one of Blondie's subsequent singles, "Sunday Girl", "Hanging on the Telephone" employs a double backbeat rhythm in its drumming pattern. This percussion style also appeared on other power pop singles from the period, like The Romantics' 1978 release "Tell It to Carrie".[4] ==Release history[ edit] == ==Chart peak positions[ edit] == ==Cover versions and appearances in other media<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * UK 7" (CHS 2266)
 * 1) "Hanging on the Telephone" (Jack Lee) — 2:17
 * 2) "Will Anything Happen" (Lee) — 2:55
 * US 7" (CHS 2271)
 * 1) "Hanging on the Telephone" (Lee) — 2:17
 * 2) "Fade Away and Radiate" (Chris Stein) — 3:57
 * The Sharp covered the song on their 1993 EP Yeah I Want You.
 * Swedish duo Roxette covered the song during their Crash! Boom! Bang! world tour 94-95.
 * In 1995 a cover version by American grunge band L7 was released on The Jerky Boys Soundtrack.
 * The song has been covered by Alexi Laiho's Finnish extreme power metal band Sinergy on the album To Hell and Back released in 2000.
 * In 2001, Polish rock band Hey released a cover of the song on their studio album.
 * A studio band named Jack covered the song for inclusion in the 2005 edition of the PC game You Don't Know Jack.
 * In 2006, both UK girl band Girls Aloud and Def Leppard released covers of the song, on a limited edition bonus disc to The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits and on Yeah!, respectively.
 * The song appeared on the soundtrack of the 2006 video game True Crime: New York City.
 * A cover of this song appeared on punk rock band Rehasher's 2009 album, High Speed Access to My Brain.
 * In 2009 Jimmy Somerville covered the song on his acoustic album Suddenly Last Summer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-size:10.9090909957886px;">[13]
 * In 2011, it was covered by The Gamits on a split with Red City Radio.
 * A version by Flowers Forever is played in the 2012 movie Electrick Children, in which a young girl believes she has become pregnant through listening to the song on her cassette recorder.
 * Blondie re-recorded the song for their 2014 compilation album Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux. The compilation was part of a 2-disc set called Blondie 4(0) Ever which included their 10th studio album Ghosts of Download and marked the 40th anniversary of the forming of the band.