Telefone is a dance/pop single recorded by Scottish singer Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton

Sheena Easton is a Scottish recording artist. Easton became famous for being the focus of an episode in the British television programme The Big Time, which recorded her attempts to gain a record contract and her eventual signing with EMI Records.Easton rose to fame in the early 1980s with the pop...

, the first single released from her fourth album, 1983's Best Kept Secret

Best Kept Secret (Sheena Easton album)

Best Kept Secret is the fourth album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. It was released in 1983 on EMI Records.Easton's first three albums had all been recorded in London with producer Christopher Neil...

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The song was most successful in the US

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, where it became Easton's fourth top 10 hit, peaking at number nine in late 1983. The video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yalC2rDeqU, shot in black & white, featured Easton in a haunted house

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 and a cemetery

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, being pursued by Dracula

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, Frankenstein's monster

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, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame before being rescued by King Kong

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In Mexico, the popular teen group Timbiriche

Timbiriche

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released a Latin version, titled Teléfono.

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak position
Canada Singles Chart	3
UK Singles Chart	84
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	9
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play	9
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	15