Jevetta Steele: "Calling You" (1987)

Bagdad Café (also known as Out of Rosenheim) is a 1987 German film directed by Percy Adlon. According to wikipedia, the film runs 95 minutes in the U.S. and 108 minutes in the German version.

The film is a comedy set in a remote truck-stop café and motel in the Mojave Desert. The film begins when German tourist Jasmin (Sägebrecht) has a fight with her husband whilst they are driving across the desert. She storms out of the car and happens upon the truck stop run by the tough-as-nails and short tempered Brenda (Pounder), whose own husband, after an argument out front, is soon to leave her too.

The cafe is visited by an assortment of colorful characters, including strange ex-Hollywood set-painter (Palance), glamorous tattoo artist (Kaufmann), topped off with a melodious backdrop in the form of J. S. Bach preludes recited on piano by Brenda's son (Darron Flagg). With an ability to quietly empathize with everyone she meets at the cafe, helped by a passion for cleaning and performing magic tricks, Jasmin gradually transforms the café and all the people in it.

Jevetta Steele is originally from Gary, Indiana, though she has lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for many years. She originally migrated to the Twin Cities to become a criminal lawyer, although music and stage would eventually became her destined paths. In addition to her successful solo career, Steele is a member of the acclaimed gospel group The Steeles.


- Lyrics:

A desert road from vegas to nowhere,
some place better than where you've been.
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
in a little café just around the bend.

I am calling you.
Can't you hear me?
I am calling you.

A hot dry wind blows right through me.
The baby's crying and I can't sleep,
but we both know a change is coming,
coming closer sweet release.

I am calling you.
I know you hear me.
I am calling you.
Ohhhh.

I am calling you.
I know you hear me.
I am calling you.

A desert road from vegas to nowhere,
some place better than where you've been.
A coffee machine that needs some fixing
in a little café just around the bend.

A hot dry wind blows right through me.
The baby's crying and I can't sleep
and I can feel a change is coming,
coming closer sweet release.

I am calling you.
Can't you hear me?
I am calling you.
Ohhhhhhhh
Uhhhhh.....