She was insatiable, you know the type
And she was young, but she was ripe
And she was vicious, and she took a bite

Baby don't wanna feel this pain anymore
I've got a message, put it through, emergency
I wanna hear it on the radio tonight

Calling all girls, If you're looking for love
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a hot time
Calling all girls, If you're looking for fun
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a good time tonight

Seems all the good girls are home in bed
We're gonna party to raise the dead
I'm gonna love that girl right out of my head
Baby don't wanna feel this pain anymore
I've got a message, put it through, emergency
I wanna see it on the video tonight

Calling all girls, If you're looking for love
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a hot time
Calling all girls, If you're looking for fun
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a good time tonight

Calling all girls
Calling all girls
Calling all girls
Calling all girls
Calling all girls
Calling all girls

Baby don't wanna feel this pain anymore
I've got a message, put it through, emergency
I wanna hear it on the radio tonight

Calling all girls, If you're looking for love -  You've got it
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a hot time
Calling all girls, If you're looking for fun
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a good time tonight

Calling all girls, If you're looking for love
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a hot time
Calling all girls, If you're looking for fun
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a good time tonight

Calling all girls, If you're looking for love, you got it
Calling all girls, woe, you got it
Calling all girls, If you're looking for fun
Calling all girls, If you're looking for a good time tonight

(total playing time 3:26)

SONG FACTS

Rick performed this song during Live and Kickin' and now performs it as part of a Medley at some of his concerts.

It appears on the following releases:
Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet, Best 21, Best of (UK), Best of (Japan)Calling All Girls (Romantic Collection), Encore Collection, Alive-Greatest Hits (as part of a Medley), Legendary, VH1 Behind the Music, and Anthology (written in rock)

 According to US

Back in 1982 when I first purchased this album, I always listened to this side second. You see, this was back in the day when either a 33 1/3 lp or a cassette was the only form (8 tracks were gone by this point) of listening to music available. Since at the time I only had the album with that wonderful picture of Rick in a jumpsuit on the back, I would always listen to the side that started with Don't Talk to Strangers first. Even when I finally went out and bought the cassette after receiving my first boom box, I listened the same way. Flash forward 25 years, and now when I pop in this CD and this song starts off the album, I feel out of sorts.

This song is just one more example of why artists' must include lyrics in their liner notes, if only to avoid misheard lyrics later to be sung aloud incorrectly at the expense of a fan's embarrassment. For years, I thought the first line was "She was sensational, you know the type. And she was young, but she was right." Doesn't make sense, I know now. But at thirteen I was only a superficial fan. Lyrical content didn't really mean much, I just wanted to listen to stuff I thought had a good beat and was easy to dance to. :-)

This song was never really one of my favorites from SHSMY, hence the choice to listen to DTTS twice as much as the songs from this side of the album. I'm not sure what it was/is about it that my ears didn't like truthfully. Maybe it was that I kept thinking it sounded like some kind of song that belonged in a strip club playing while girls danced around poles. I still get that image in my head sometimes. Or it was the whole -easy to dance to- part of my like requirement that was lacking on this one. I mean, have you tried to dance to this one? You probably do need a pole.... maybe I should check that out. You know, for research purposes.

My fondest memory of this song is when Rick came to my hometown to perform at Pine Knob later in the 80's. He was having issues with his microphones all night and even though the fans didn't seem to mind you could tell that he did. Towards the end of the show, the mics went out completely. This would've been the 2nd of two nights Rick was performing there, and I think a lot of people felt that when he just exited the stage that the show was over and they started leaving. My friend and I moved up as close as we could (hurdling seats...the first time of many I would do that) knowing there was still an encore. The longest time passed, and people started booing but the lights hadn't come on yet. In reality, it was probably only 5 or 10 minutes. Suddenly Rick just walked back out with the band, and apologized in a now-working microphone to the crowd. Then they started this song. Rick mentioned something about giving the crowd that was left something a little extra. The reason this sticks out in my mind wasn't the issues, but that it was different from the night before. (little did I know I'd be looking for this type of detail 20 years later as well) I don't even really remember the performance of the song to say if it rocked or not, just the thought that it was Calling All Girls and I thought that was an odd choice. 

Years later, I don't really skip this one when I'm listening. Must be the nostalgia factor keeping me there. - Michelle P.

This is one of my Rick faves. I didn't hear it until I "rediscovered" Rick in 1999, so I only heard it with adult ears (someone said that as a kid, they heard the lyrics MUCH differently--i can understand why!).

The driving guitars push the message of urgency and anger. he's been dumped and he wants to get even or at least get laid. i love the references to "I wanna hear it on the radio/see it on the video tonight". to me, it puts him on the level of the listener--ever been in the mood for a certain song when cruising the channels??? I'm gonna love that girl right outa my head--wasn't that a shampoo commercial from about that era? I love it when i can think that I "get" one of his cultural references. (you can burst my bubble later.) It also cracks me up to think that he'd have to expend energy to find girls. (hello!!!) oh well. 

To me, this is a rock song. I love the energy, even if it's angry. It's something I can relate to, and I love that he's included it in the "new" medley. 

This isn't a very well organized review. In brief: there's no real depth to the song, but I love the sound, the energy and the sentiments. - S. George

Insatiable…I love that choice of words for one of the start-up lyrics in this song! It kind of sets the `mood' for what's to come. I mean…really, she was with Rick right? Of course she wanted more of him! I have always loved this song from the first minute I heard it. In fact, I can't tell you how many times I'd immediately hit rewind on this one…listening to it a dozen times before moving on to track 2. This is what I consider one of Rick's `bad boy' songs…and I absolutely love this side of him. I'm not sure that I'd really want Rick Springfield to be a total bad boy (or then some of the things I appreciate about Rick probably wouldn't exist at all), but it's nice to see that side of him from time to time. I like his take-no-prisoners, kiss-my-ass attitude in this one. And for me, the jamming and rhythmic guitar riffs support the whole feeling here. He seems very angry deep down, but also like a man who's just plain tired of `laying back' and taking the heartache, and he's blatantly saying, "let's get out and party, have a good time, and whatever happens…happens." 

Back in the 80's it was rare for Rick to come out with a song that seemed so deliberately `bad.' By bad I mean…he is not tip-toeing around what he wants to say, and there are no double meanings here or mysteries to figure out. He is completely speaking his mind, and what was on it at that time. I love that! I found it very refreshing when SHSMY came out. I like how he refers to the whole thing as an "emergency." Ok Rick…sure! 

I find this to be one of his "hotter" songs, with words like `ripe,' and phrases like "she was vicious and she took a bite." Rick has the greatest talent for painting pictures with his songwriting. (even if he does refer to this song as a 'bootie call' song! LOL) His voice is really clear and just perfect to me all throughout this one, and it has an urgency to it. I love the second verse just as much as the first one. "Send all the good girls all home to bed…we're gonna party to raise the dead"…….Now this verse (how I can remember my thoughts from 24 years ago but can't remember yesterday is beyond me!! LOL) had me thinking that I would NOT want to be one of those 'good girls' home in bed if there was a party to be had with Rick Springfield. Ok, so the song is calling out for someone to have sex with him…anyone who so desires ("all girls!") so he can 'love that girl right out of his head.' Yep, too bad that at the time I discovered this tune, I was only 14! :p To this day, I am still bopping around to this song every time it's on.

This is one of the best from SHSMY, in my opinion. It is perfectly rocking and catchy for starting off the `album.' I liked seeing this one on Live & Kickin' too, and I think the sirens are a neat effect. Calling All Girls will easily remain in circulation as one of my frequently played Rick songs.  - Kelley Pearson

I think that this song was the ideal one to put as the first track of this album. It feels almost as if he is 'calling' all girls into the album to check it out and listen to what he has to say. I feel like I am transformed back in time to when I was so young, first listening to this song. The message he is getting across is not one for then or now, that I can relate to in any way as some of his other masterpieces, but it really is truly a wonderful song. For me, it's the music in this one, more so that 'gets' me. I love the guitar and the drum beats and the 'excitement' that I get from listening to it. 
My favorite part of the song is in the middle with the drum beat going and then he switches it up a little to softly say "Baby, don't wanna feel this pain, anymore....." Something about the way he says 'baby' just melts my heart. I love a man who uses terms of endearment and Rick does it ever so well. ;-) - Amy L.

This is the album (cassette if I want to be accurate) that made me a die hard Rick Springfield fan. So hearing this song, kicks off the album that holds a special place in my heart and takes me right back to 1982, my sophomore year in college, and remembering how I'd just think of excuses to go run errands so I could drive around in my car and listen to this whole cassette, and being so disappointed when I pulled up in the parking lot, knowing I'd have to wait until the next time to hear it again.

The other memory that this song conjures up for me is that this song was playing on the radio when I was on my way to see Rick Springfield in concert for the first time (August 31, 1983), so it also reminds me of the excitement of that night, the anticipation. 

And 'Calling All Girls" -  that's kind of what Rick does, he steps out on the stage, calling (singing) and all the girls come running. I often think this song might be the perfect concert opener. 

Insatiable - what a great word to have in the first sentence of a song. I remember listening to this song and getting the feeling that he was lonely and just didn't want to be lonely anymore. The emotion that stood out the strongest for me was "Baby, I don't want to feel this pain anymore".

In 2001, we were at EFX and I had Rick sign a copy of "Calling All Girls - The Romantic Collection" and Rick was laughing about the fact that this song was even on a cd called "The Romantic Collection", much less the name of the cd because he said that Calling All Girls was about a guy that had gotten fucked over by a girl and was just wanting to get laid......(now, I know that's a pretty accurate quote of what he said, although maybe not verbatim because I'll admit my brain completely froze, first at the "f" word, then at the "getting laid" part - way too much for me to process all at once). - rlh

The beginning of this song reminds me of that non-Rick song that says 'The Devil came down to Georgia'...what's that called??? Anyway, the guitar intro reminds me of a demonish devilish beat, which I suppose compliments his 'devilish-sinful' thoughts in this song.

THIS is the song of a male rock star and could very well be a 'theme song' of sort for them. 'Calling All Girls'...'If You're Looking For Love'...'If You're Looking For A Hot Time'...'Seems All The Good Girls Are Home In Bed'...'We're Gonna 
Party To Raise The Dead'.... all very rock star-groupie ish. And when he says 'Baby I don't want to feel this pain anymore' it is almost like Eve tempting Adam with a sweet innocent apple...'its harmless, I am harmless...come play' hehe

Up until very recently I swore Rick was singing 'Send All The Good Girls All Home to Bed', and it reminded me of a time in the 80's in Toronto when at a concert I was told to 'come back when I was older'... Man, I was ALMOST drinking age, and that is 19 here in Ontario. Anyway...

I came back, along with all of the rest of you guys...he beckons and we come. I think this song and the Beatles's song 'Come Together' are perfect show openers for the Milwaukee experience. I don't really have much more to say about this one except it gets the energy and a crowd going...i love his naughty, aggressive and somewhat bossy side (in song of course). - Kat M.

I love this song. It's just a real fun, energetic rock song. It's probably the "heaviest" song on this album. I love the fast paced urgent sounding guitars and drums in this one and they sound even better live. There's not a lot of deep meaning to the lyrics, but as with most of Rick's songs, it seems to have been written from a place of pain. He couldn't do enough to satisfy his girl and now he just wants to forget about her and is on a mission to satisfy every girl out there:) I love how he is so much on a mission that he calls it an "emergency" and has to get his message out to all the girls using any means necessary…radio, TV, probably a big bull horn if he has to. I think this song would be a great opening song to a live show, just as it's a great opener for the SHSMY album. I could just imagine….the sirens going off just long enough to get all the ladies in the crowd in a frenzy (like we need any help) and then Rick walking out to wail on the guitar set the tempo for the whole show. I've heard Rick say plenty of times that "Love Is Alright Tonight" is the "only party song I ever wrote". I have to disagree with him there. As far as I'm concerned, "Calling All Girls" is at least the second party song he ever wrote. - Laura H.

When I first heard this song back in the 80's,I didn't really like it. Mainly because I felt he was being a little cocky about his ability to attract the opposite sex. It's kind of grown on me over the years. I now realize he was being a little cocky, but he also was saying that he was tired of being in emotional agony. Perhaps he thought life would be a whole lot easier if he just didn't really get involved anymore and just looked for good time girls to have a good time with but no relationship. I like how urgent his voice is on this song. That's really how I came to see that this song really is him crying out about his failed relationships. I like the music. It sounds tough in the beginning and then mellows a little and then that driving beat comes in again. I like the guitar part before he starts chanting "Calling All Girls". I think this is a good song. I would be curious to see someone kind of bring this up to date and rerecord it. Maybe Rick? Elizabeth S.