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 19