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"867-5309/Jenny" is a song written by Alex Call and Jim Keller and performed by Keller's band Tommy Tutone. It was released on the album Tommy Tutone 2 (1981) through Columbia Records. It peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Rock Top Tracks chart in April 1982.
Party Line (Andrea True Connection song) Party Line (The Kinks song) Payphone (song) Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) Phony Calls; Pick Up the Phone (The Notwist song) Pick Up the Phone (Young Thug and Travis Scott song)
The song's title, "777-9311", was Prince guitarist Dez Dickerson's actual telephone number at the time the song was written. Once the song became a hit, the phone calls started coming in, and Dickerson ended up having to change his phone number.
The song is a music hall comedy number with elements of a Latin style that resembles mambo. [2] John Lennon came up with the lyric/title after seeing a phone book. He said: That was a piece of unfinished music that I turned into a comedy record with Paul.
In 2010, in the movie High School, Psycho Ed's card had the number (310) 874-9015 presented as a pager number, but the number is the contact phone number of the director of that movie. In 1998, Queens of the Stone Age released the song Regular John, which includes the number 86278-263789.
PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common from about 1930 into the 1960s. The number is best known from the 1940 hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", a swing jazz and pop standard recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
"634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)" is a soul song written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper. It was first recorded by Wilson Pickett on December 20, 1965 [ 1 ] and included on his 1966 Atlantic Records album The Exciting Wilson Pickett with backing vocals by Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles .
The song's title is the previous phone number for the American National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL), now known as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. [4] Although the lifeline later changed its phone number to the simpler "988" in July 2022, the original number remains active. [5]