10 Best Songs With The Word 'Call' In The Title

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Our list of the 10 Best Songs With The Word “Call” In The Title brings together rock, pop, soul, and a little bit of everything else. One of the reasons we put together lists like this is to introduce readers to songs they may not know while giving longtime fans another excuse to celebrate records they already love. Some of these songs became enormous hits, while others found their place through albums, videos, or years of fan loyalty. So here we go—ten songs that prove one simple word can carry a whole lot of musical weight.

# 10 – Call Me – Blondie

Blondie’s “Call Me” was created for the 1980 film American Gigolo through a collaboration between Debbie Harry and Giorgio Moroder. Moroder supplied the music, Harry wrote the lyrics, and the finished record became one of the biggest hits of Blondie’s career. The single spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and finished as Billboard’s number-one song of 1980. Debbie Harry’s vocal cuts through the track with exactly the kind of cool confidence that made Blondie so distinctive. More than four decades later, “Call Me” still sounds like the perfect meeting point between rock, new wave, and the dance floor.

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# 9 – Calling Dr. Love – Kiss

Kiss released “Calling Dr. Love” on the 1976 album Rock and Roll Over, and Gene Simmons wrote the song and sang the lead vocal. The title came from a line in the Three Stooges short Men in Black, which was exactly the kind of larger-than-life inspiration that fit Kiss perfectly. Eddie Kramer produced the recording, helping the band get back to the hard-rock sound that made its early records so much fun. Simmons turns the “doctor” idea into pure Kiss swagger without pretending there is anything subtle about it. “Calling Dr. Love” remains one of those songs that sounds made for a packed arena.

# 8 – Call My Name – Prince

Prince’s “Call My Name” appeared on his 2004 album Musicology and showed just how effortlessly he could move into a slower, deeply soulful groove. The record has the intimacy of a classic R&B ballad without losing the unmistakable personality Prince brought to everything he touched. His vocal stays warm and controlled while the arrangement gives the melody plenty of room to breathe. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 2005 ceremony. It is one of those Prince records that does not need to shout to command your attention.

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# 7 – You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon

“You Can Call Me Al” was the lead single from Paul Simon’s 1986 album Graceland, one of the defining records of his solo career. The song mixes Simon’s writing with the South African musical influences that helped shape the album, including Ray Phiri’s guitar and Bakithi Kumalo’s unforgettable bass work. What makes the song so great is the contrast between its bright, almost playful surface and Simon’s restless questions underneath it. The famous music video with Chevy Chase gave the record another life and became almost as recognizable as the song itself. Decades later, that opening groove still makes “You Can Call Me Al” impossible to ignore.

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# 6 – Calling All Angels – Train

Train’s “Calling All Angels” was released in 2003 as the lead single from the band’s third studio album, My Private Nation. Pat Monahan, Charlie Colin, Jimmy Stafford, and Scott Underwood helped shape the recording with producer Brendan O’Brien. The song reaches for hope while still admitting how unsettled and uncertain the world can feel, which is probably why so many listeners connected with it. It reached number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of Train’s defining early-2000s hits. The chorus is big enough for an arena, but the emotion underneath it keeps the song from feeling empty.

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# 5 – Calling All Girls – Queen

Queen’s “Calling All Girls” appeared on the band’s 1982 album Hot Space and was written by Roger Taylor. It became the first Taylor-written Queen song to be released as an A-side single, although it was issued only in selected markets rather than as a major UK single. Freddie Mercury handles the lead vocal while Taylor’s writing gives the track a direct, almost urgent quality that stands apart from some of the album’s more dance-oriented material. The official video, directed by Brian Grant, takes its visual inspiration from George Lucas’s THX 1138, surrounding the band with robots and a sterile futuristic world. The song may not have become one of Queen’s biggest hits, but it remains a fascinating piece of the band’s early-1980s experimentation.

# 4 – Call Me Lightning – The Who

The Who released “Call Me Lightning” as a U.S. single in March 1968, where it followed “I Can See for Miles” and reached number forty on the Billboard Hot 100. Pete Townshend wrote the song, Kit Lambert produced it, and the recording was completed between sessions in London and Los Angeles. Roger Daltrey, Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon give the track the playful energy of the band’s late-1960s period without sacrificing the punch underneath it. The song later appeared on the American album Magic Bus: The Who on Tour. It is lighter on its feet than some of The Who’s biggest anthems, but it still sounds unmistakably like them.

# 3 – Call Any Vegetable – Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa’s “Call Any Vegetable” appeared on The Mothers of Invention’s 1967 album Absolutely Free, where it sits inside one of the record’s wonderfully strange musical sequences. Zappa composed, arranged, and conducted the material, while Tom Wilson produced the album. The recording features the early Mothers lineup with Zappa, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Don Preston, Bunk Gardner, Jim Fielder, and Billy Mundi. What sounds ridiculous on the surface is exactly the point, because Zappa could use absurd humor as a doorway into much stranger musical and social ideas. Few artists could make a song about calling a vegetable sound this musically ambitious.

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# 2 – Call Me The Breeze – Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd took J.J. Cale’s “Call Me the Breeze” and turned it into one of the great Southern-rock boogie tracks of the 1970s. Their version appeared on 1974’s Second Helping with Al Kooper producing. Ronnie Van Zant’s vocal rides over the band’s harder attack while the guitars and Billy Powell’s piano push the song far beyond the laid-back feel of Cale’s original. Skynyrd did not simply cover the song; they rebuilt it in their own language. The result still sounds like a band having an absolute blast while the wheels keep turning.

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# 1 – London Calling – The Clash

“London Calling” is one of those songs where the title alone feels like an alarm going off. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones wrote the track for The Clash’s 1979 double album London Calling, with Guy Stevens producing at Wessex Studios in London. Strummer, Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon turn all that anxiety about the world around them into a record that is urgent without ever sounding trapped in one moment. The single reached number eleven on the UK chart and became one of the defining recordings of the band’s career. Punk, reggae, rock, politics, fear, and defiance all collide in four minutes, which is why “London Calling” takes the number-one spot.

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