Hanging on the Telephone

"Hanging on the Telephone"
Single by Blondie
from the album Parallel Lines
B-side	"Will Anything Happen" "Fade Away and Radiate"
Released	October 30, 1978
Format	7" vinyl
Recorded	1978
Genre	Power pop new wave
Length	2:17
Label	Chrysalis
Writer(s)	Jack Lee
Producer(s)	Mike Chapman
Blondie singles chronology
"I'm Gonna Love You Too" (1978) "Hanging on the Telephone" (1978) "Heart of Glass" (1979)
Music sample "Hanging on the Telephone" Alternative cover US edition of the "Hanging On Telephone" single with alternative cover art.

"Hanging on the Telephone" is a song written by Jack Lee. It was first performed by his short-lived US West Coast power pop trio The Nerves.

The song was the lead-off track on The Nerves's 1976 EP, the group's only release. It was later popularized by new wave band Blondie when they released a cover of the song as the second single from their 1978 album Parallel Lines in both the US and UK. It eventually reached number 5 in the UK in November 1978.

Like one of Blondie's subsequent singles, "Sunday Girl", "Hanging on the Telephone" employs a double backbeat rhythm in its drumming pattern. This percussion style also appeared on other power pop singles from the period, like The Romantics' 1978 release "Tell It to Carrie".