“Vienna Calling” by Falco

Falco's "Vienna Calling" came out in September 1985 as the second single from Falco 3, the Austrian's third studio record, and English-speaking countries got it in 1986. He wrote it with the Dutch production pair Bolland & Bolland, Ferdi and Rob Bolland, who produced it for him as well.

It's a fast-talking pop-rap postcard from his hometown, rapped in German: Vienna going cosmopolitan, the telephone as the city's hotline to the wider world, and women who are never home when he rings, one of them off in Rio, then in Tokyo, until the whole town is on red alert. A flute motif flits through it over a clean, bluesy guitar, sampled hellos keep the phone gag ringing, and the flute takes a solo to close it out.

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