Call on Me (Eric Prydz song)
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| Single by Eric Prydz | |||||||||
| Released | 13 September 2004 | ||||||||
| Format | CD single, DVD single, 12" single, digital download | ||||||||
| Recorded | 2004 | ||||||||
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| Length | 2:52 | ||||||||
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Ministry of Sound Data Ultra (U.S.) |
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| Writer(s) | Eric Prydz, Steve Winwood, Will Jennings | ||||||||
| Producer(s) | Eric Prydz | ||||||||
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"Call on Me" is a song co-written and recorded by Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz. The single received massive sales success and topped several record charts. "Call on Me" is known for its music video, which features several women and a man performing aerobics in a sexually suggestive manner.
"Call on Me" is a dance music track based on a sample of Steve Winwood's 1982 song "Valerie". When Prydz presented the track to him, Winwood was so impressed with what Prydz had done, that he re-recorded the vocals to fit the track better.DJ Falcon stated in an interview that he and Thomas Bangalter, as a duo called Together, had sampled "Valerie" years previously to create a similar song. Together's track was used in DJ sets with no intention to release it as a single despite demand from various outlets.
The music video for "Call on Me", directed by Huse Monfaradi, features an aerobics class of women wearing 1980s styled aerobics outfits performing sexually suggestive gym routines led by dancer and choreographer Deanne Berry, much to the enjoyment of the sole man in the group, played by Juan Pablo Di Pace. The video was filmed in the Laban Dance Centre in Deptford, England and spoofs a scene in the 1985 film Perfect starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis.
In late-2004, while being interviewed by Chris Evans for UK Radio Aid, a 12-hour fundraising broadcast for tsunami victims, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair said: "The first time it came on, I nearly fell off my rowing machine."Vice Media via their Thump website would go on to call the video the "Sexiest Music Video of All Time" There are two videos — an edited one shown in daylight hours and a late night version which is uncut and features the dancers rubbing their breasts and one dancer slapping her buttocks.
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