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[[Image:Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America.jpg|thumb|256x256px|US single cover.]]
 
[[Image:Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America.jpg|thumb|256x256px|US single cover.]]
  
'''''Calling America''''' is a rock song by [[Electric Light Orchestra]]. The single was recorded in 1985 and released on 1986-01-24, with ''[[Caught In a Trap]]'' as the B-side, and it was also track 8 on the album ''[[Balance of Power]]'' released on 1986-02-17. Calling America was written and produced by [[Jeff Lynne]], and is a good example of British synth pop in the mid-1980s.
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'''''Calling America''''' is a rock song by [[Electric Light Orchestra]]. The single was recorded in 1985 and released on 1986-01-24, with ''[[Caught In a Trap]]'' as the B-side, and it was also track 8 on the album ''[[Balance of Power]]'' released on 1986-02-17. ''Calling America'' was written and produced by [[Jeff Lynne]], and is a good example of British synth pop in the mid-1980s.
  
In the song, a British woman leaves for America, but leaves a number for a man to call her, however, the man discovers that the number doesn't actually connect to anything. But, rather than understand that she gave him a fake number, the man keeps calling it over and over, trusting that she will eventually pick up the phone. The song has a similar theme to the earlier ELO song, ''[[Telephone Line]]''. But the subject of the song isn't why I like it, the primary reason I love this song is due to the amazing sound it has. The intro is perfect, beginning ''a capella'', and very quickly introducing a nice dance beat. All of the backing vocals are highly overdubbed, and occasionally the lead vocals are mechanized or echoed. Also, there is wonderful use of synthesizers to perform little ditties throughout the whole song.
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In the song, a British woman leaves for America, but leaves a number for a man to call her, however, the man discovers that the number doesn't actually connect to anything. But, rather than understand that she gave him a fake number, the man keeps calling it over and over, blindly trusting that she will eventually pick up the phone. The song has a similar theme to the earlier ELO song, ''[[Telephone Line]]''. But the subject of the song isn't why I like it, the primary reason I love this song is due to the amazing sound it has. The intro is perfect, beginning ''a capella'', and very quickly introducing a nice dance beat. All of the backing vocals are highly overdubbed, and occasionally the lead vocals are mechanized or echoed. Also, there is wonderful use of synthesizers to perform little ditties throughout the whole song.
  
 
This is my favorite ELO song.
 
This is my favorite ELO song.
  
 
==Lyrics==
 
==Lyrics==
  Somebody
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  Some-bod-y
 
  Told her that there was a place like heaven
 
  Told her that there was a place like heaven
 
  Across the water on a 747
 
  Across the water on a 747

Revision as of 16:15, 6 June 2019

US single cover.

Calling America is a rock song by Electric Light Orchestra. The single was recorded in 1985 and released on 1986-01-24, with Caught In a Trap as the B-side, and it was also track 8 on the album Balance of Power released on 1986-02-17. Calling America was written and produced by Jeff Lynne, and is a good example of British synth pop in the mid-1980s.

In the song, a British woman leaves for America, but leaves a number for a man to call her, however, the man discovers that the number doesn't actually connect to anything. But, rather than understand that she gave him a fake number, the man keeps calling it over and over, blindly trusting that she will eventually pick up the phone. The song has a similar theme to the earlier ELO song, Telephone Line. But the subject of the song isn't why I like it, the primary reason I love this song is due to the amazing sound it has. The intro is perfect, beginning a capella, and very quickly introducing a nice dance beat. All of the backing vocals are highly overdubbed, and occasionally the lead vocals are mechanized or echoed. Also, there is wonderful use of synthesizers to perform little ditties throughout the whole song.

This is my favorite ELO song.

Lyrics

Some-bod-y
Told her that there was a place like heaven
Across the water on a 747
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notion
Of flying out across the big blue ocean
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Talk is cheap on satellite
But all I get is static
Information, I'm still here
Re-dial on automatic.

Calling America. Can't get a message through.
Calling America. That's what she said to do.
Calling America. That's where she has to be.
Calling America. She left a number for me.
Calling America.

But I'm just talking to a satellite
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

All I had to do was pick up the phone
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

She left a number I could call
But no one's there, no one at all
There must be something going wrong
That number just rings on and on.

Calling America. Can't get a message through.
Calling America. That's what she said to do.
Calling America. That's where she has to be.
Calling America. She left a number for me.
Calling America.

Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while
Guess she's missing me across the miles
Yeah, we're living in
In a modern world.

Calling America. Can't get a message through.
Calling America. That's what she said to do.
Calling America. That's where she has to be.
Calling America. She left a number for me.

Calling America, calling America,
Calling America, calling America.

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