Call on Me (Eric Prydz song)

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"Call on Me"
Single by Eric Prydz
Released	13 September 2004
Format	CD single DVD single Vinyl Digital download
Recorded	2004
Genre	Dance House
Length	2:52
Label	Ministry of Sound Data Records Ultra Records (U.S.)
Writer(s)	E. Prydz, S. Winwood, Jennings
Producer(s)	E. Prydz
Chart positions
#1 (UK,Germany, Ireland) #2 (Australia) #5 (U.S. Dance)
Eric Prydz singles chronology
"Woz Not Woz" (2004)	"Call On Me" (2004)	"Proper Education" (2006)

"Call on Me" is a song performed by Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz. The song topped the German singles charts for six weeks.

The song is a house track based on a rerecorded sample of Steve Winwood's song "Valerie", originally released in the UK in 1982 to little success, and re-released in 1987, gaining more success by peaking at number nineteen. Winwood collaborated with Prydz on the song by rerecording his vocals.

Until March 2006 Eric Prydz sold the lowest number of singles for a number-one chart position in any particular week: "Call on Me" sold 23,519 copies when it returned to the top of the charts on October 17, 2004. This record was broken once again by himself only a week later on October 24, 2004 with the song selling 21,749 copies that week. Nevertheless, it has been one of the highest selling singles in the UK, with preorder sales of 100,000 including a DVD single with the uncut video and staying five weeks at number one on the UK singles chart. Eric Prydz was influenced by the song "So Much Love to Give" by Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon.

The song entered the German singles charts at number one in early November 2004, and also repeated this in the Republic of Ireland. It also debuted at number two in Australia.

[edit] Music video

The music video for "Call on Me" is directed by Huse Monfaradi and features an aerobics class of women performing sexually suggestive gym routines led by Australian dancer and choreographer Deanne Berry, much to the enjoyment of the sole man in the group, played by Juan Pablo Di Pace. It has been said to be inspired by the gym scene in the 1985 film Perfect starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis but actually it is based on the gym scene in the 1984 film Ninja III: The Domination.^{[citation needed]} The video was filmed in a dance studio in the suburb Deptford, London in the United Kingdom.

While being interviewed by Chris Evans for UK Radio Aid, a 12-hour fundraising broadcast for tsunami victims, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "The first time it came on, I nearly fell off my rowing machine."[1] Many politicians and family groups have pushed for the video to be banned, but there are two videos — a censored 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 own buttocks.

The video was the highest-downloaded music video of all time in Australia, downloaded over 35,000 times through '3 Mobile' mobile phones with 3G technology in association with the Rage music television show. Ministry of Sound presented the '3 Mobile' phone provider with the mobile equivalent of a gold record in April 2005.

Due to the popularity and high demand for the video, a feature length aerobics DVD was later released titled Pump It Up - The Ultimate Dance Workout which featured the dancers from the "Call on Me" video performing aerobics routines to various popular dance music songs.

The video spun off a parody version called "Call on Me (Part 2)", featuring an aerobics class of men instead of women, and the main character being female instead of male.

[edit] External links

• Video clip
• High resolution video clip
• the spoof video

Preceded by "Real To Me" by Brian McFadden	UK Singles Chart number one single September 25, 2004 - October 15, 2004	Succeeded by "Radio" by Robbie Williams
Preceded by "Radio" by Robbie Williams	UK Singles Chart number one single October 23, 2004 - November 5, 2004	Succeeded by "Wonderful" by Ja Rule featuring Ashanti & R. Kelly