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Island of Lost Souls (song)

Field	Value
name	Island of Lost Souls
cover	Blondie_Island_of_Lost_Souls.jpg
type	single
artist	Blondie
album	The Hunter
B-side	Dragonfly
released	April 1982
recorded	1981
genre	Calypso, pop, new wave
length	3:48 (US), 4:44 (UK)
label	Chrysalis Records
writer	Deborah Harry and Chris Stein
producer	Mike Chapman
prev_title	Rapture
prev_year	1981
next_title	War Child
next_year	1982
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| B-side = Dragonfly "Island of Lost Souls" is a song recorded by the band Blondie and released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, The Hunter, in April 1982.

Song information and chart success

Continuing the band's penchant for spanning different genres of music, including rock, disco, reggae and rap/hip-hop (all of which had given the band No. 1 hits), "Island of Lost Souls" saw Blondie delve into calypso music, supported by five session musicians: three trumpet players and two saxophonists. Additionally, drummer Clem Burke plays a steelpan and guitarist Chris Stein briefly plays a cuíca in the bridge (a traditional Brazilian friction drum), but this is not shown in the music video and they are not credited with those instruments either.

The song was recorded in the autumn of 1981, and promotional copies of the single were sent to U.S. radio stations on 31 October 1981. Upon its release in 1982, "Island of Lost Souls" was not one of Blondie's biggest hits, only reaching the Top 10 in Belgium, although it did top the Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary chart. It peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 (becoming Blondie's final U.S. Top 40 hit on that chart to date), and also reached No. 11 in the United Kingdom.

Music video

The music video was filmed in the Isles of Scilly in the UK. It features three scenes interspersed with each other: a group of men dressed as undertakers in a Cornish gig boat, the band dressed in white monk robes (the members apart from Harry play horns and saxophones while wearing fish masks), and the band dressed as a Latin American band.

Track listing

US 7" (CHS 2603, April 1982)

UK 7" (CHS 2608 & 7" Picture Disc CHSP 2608, April 1982)

"Island of Lost Souls" (7" edit) (Deborah Harry, Chris Stein) – 3:49
"Dragonfly" (Harry, Stein) – 5:47 UK 12" (12 CHS 2608, April 1982)
"Island of Lost Souls" (Album version) (Harry, Stein) – 4:44
"Dragonfly" (Harry, Stein) – 5:47

Chart performance

Chart (1982)	Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart	13
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary	1
Irish Singles Chart	15
Luxembourg (Radio Luxembourg)	7
url= http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/_/blondie/	title= Blondie	publisher= Official Charts Company	access-date= 31 May 2013}}	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	37

References

[http://www.everyhit.co.uk Everyhit.co.uk] UK Top 40 database Accessed: November 29, 2006
"Adult Contemporary – Volume 36, No. 25, July 31, 1982". [[Library and Archives Canada]].
"Island of Lost Souls in Irish Chart". IRMA.
"Radio Luxembourg Singles". umdmusic.com.
"Blondie". Official Charts Company.
"Blondie awards on Allmusic". Allmusic.

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