Spagna – Call me
#quotefromthe80s
Hey how long
I've been waitin' for a love so tender
Hey hey hey how long
can I stay without your touch I wonder
#Spagna #CallMe
In March 1987, a song with an invitation to call in the title definitively consecrated the success of the great Spagna, as we called her in the 80s, or maybe it’s better Ivana Spagna, as we call her today. Oh yes, because we dinosaurs remember well the genesis of the success of this great singer and songwriter, and we love her for this!
The singer, born in Italy near Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet, had a whole career as a singer and author, with various stage names, and she had also lent her voice to other groups in the Italian scene, but without ever being able to really explode. Then, as we know, 1986 was for her the year of her turning point, obtained by winning a courageous and very modern challenge: singing dance songs in English.
And she didn’t need big teams of professionals to create fantastic songs: they were the result of a work done together with the dearest loved ones, such as her brother and her boyfriend. Furthermore, we need to keep in mind that Spagna was now over thirty years old, so this crucial decision must have been taken with great courage and determination.
This resolution in the summer of 1986 led her to be the absolute queen of discos with Easy Lady, also helped by a look absolutely out of the ordinary, made of platinum hair with an explosive haircut, and circus tamer jackets with showy toggles. Well, less than a year later Spagna searched and found the definitive confirmation, with the beautiful Call Me. Among other things, Call Me is one of the most popular titles of the 80s, since there is a Call Me by Blondie, this one from Spagna, and one of Go West. The only other such title is The Power of Love, which was used by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jennifer Rush, and Huey Lewis and the News.
The title Call Me brought great luck to Spagna, who even went beyond the success obtained the previous year, becoming one of the absolute queens of discos in the 80s. In reality today we know that from there Spagna will return not only to sing in Italian, but also to a more romantic and personal music, establishing itself as one of the greatest Italian singers.
The video of Call Me is very nice, and it was shot in England, as we can see from the license plate of the car and by the steering wheel located on the right. It was shot around Nottingham, to be precise in the most famous nightclub in Nottingham which at that time was called Ritzy but in the previous and in the following period it was known as Palais, because the entrance and the external architecture resembled a neoclassical palace. Other scenes were shot in Belvoir Castle, not far from Nottingham but already in the county of Leicestershire.
If the castle scenes seem familiar to you, you are not wrong! In fact, many scenes of the famous film Little Lord Fauntleroy were filmed in that same castle, which you have surely seen dozens of times on Christmas Eve, until Trading Places was released, which relegated Little Lord Fauntleroy to the evenings between Christmas and New Year. Furthermore, the scenes of the famous film The Da Vinci Code set in Castelgandolfo were shot in that same castle.
In short, a video shot in castles and royal palaces for a true queen of dance music and of all the 80s!
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