The Telephone Call

"The Telephone Call"
Single by Kraftwerk
from the album Electric Café
B-side"House Phone"
ReleasedFebruary 1987 (1987-02)
Genre
Length
  • 8:03 (album version)
  • 3:50 (7" remix)
  • 8:12 (12" remix)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Kraftwerk singles chronology
"Musique Non-Stop"
(1986)
"The Telephone Call"
(1987)
"The Robots (re-release)"
(1991)

"The Telephone Call" (German: "Der Telefon-Anruf") is a song by the German electronic band Kraftwerk. It was released in 1987 as the second and final single from their ninth studio album, Electric Café (1986). The single was their second number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and stayed two weeks at the number-one spot. It is the only Kraftwerk song to feature Karl Bartos on vocals. The versions from the single were remixed by François Kevorkian and Ron Saint Germain.