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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Thursday, 4th August 2011
Department S - Is Vic there?
Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call
Dr. Hook - Sylvia's Mother
Yazoo - Bad Connection
OMD - Red Frame, White Light
...and...?
Well, there's that tune by Penguin Cafe Orchestra which, I think, sampled the "engaged" tone; Pennsylvania 65000 by Glenn Milliband; Oh Donna by 1066. More to come, possibly. Sorry Tolhurst, I still have your instructions re. making accents appear (as in cafe) but I'm in a hurry.
Well, there's that tune by Penguin Cafe Orchestra which, I think, sampled the "engaged" tone; Pennsylvania 65000 by Glenn Milliband; Oh Donna by 1066. More to come, possibly. Sorry Tolhurst, I still have your instructions re. making accents appear (as in cafe) but I'm in a hurry.Â
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra's most famous piece may be "Telephone and Rubber Band", which is based around a tape loop of a UK telephone ringing tone intersected with an engaged (busy) tone, accompanied by the twanging of a rubber band.Â
I'm not going to publish that phone number but the end of this video is an attempt at the ringing tone together with the echo you used to get. Apparently it is (used to be?) the telephone kiosk outside the Railway Inn on the Wirral...
For ASCII é hold down "alt" and type numeric keypad 0233...
Right at the end of Life On Mars by Dave Bowie you hear a phone ring.
The Make-Ups version of Hey Joe has Joe being phoned up in Mexico & asked to come back home.
One by Harry Nilsson was written after he got an engaged tone on the phone. Does that count?
Does Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper have a phone ringing in it? I think so. Can't remember.
No phone ringing that I can detect, but plenty of handset use.
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Posted by Tinsnail_Racer (U1486682) on Thursday, 11th August 2011
Rose Murphy - Busy Line
Undertones - You Got My Number (why don't you use it?)
ABBA - Ring Ring
(Hanging On The Telephone and Sylvia's Mother mentioned already?)
The Bodgers - I Hate Phoning Girls
ELO - Telephone Line
St. Etienne - He's On The Phone
There are varios songs called "Call Me"......
Judy Clay & William Bell - Private Number
Rah Band - Clouds Across the Moon (does this count?)
Rings Around The World - super furry's. Like an ELO (Don't Bring Me Down) / Beachboys hybrid.
How lucky we are that no-one has mentioned "5705".
Or that "hey, how you doin' " one... (though that's actually quite good)
I can't remember my own mobile number but this one I have no trouble with.
634-5789
Wonderful.
Apology Line
And here's lovely Barrence Whitfield to explain it all to you
The Kinks - 'Party Line'
10cc - 'Don't Hang Up'
Surprising that nobody's mentioned 'One More Night' by Yellow Dog. Lammo actually played this a few weeks ago, but cut it off at the false ending. What a swizz!
Surprising that nobody's mentioned 'One More Night' by Yellow Dog. Lammo actually played this a few weeks ago, but cut it off at the false ending. What a swizz!Â
I'll do all the dishes...
That HAS been on 6Music before...
Hmm. I dimly recall there might have been a week of 'Great Lost Songs with a False Ending' on the old mid-morning show...
This post has been opened to mention "The Wichita Linesman" - but before hitting "return" I have decided that the lines in question are power lines, unless someone you know is capable of overloading telephone lines.
Mind you, those last two words are making me think E.L.O...
I'm sure that either of my sisters could manage to overload the telephone lines. Can the Wichita Referee overrule the Wichita Linesman?
I'm sure that either of my sisters could manage to overload the telephone lines. Can the Wichita Referee overrule the Wichita Linesman? Â
I have JUST got that reference from the world of soccer.
Do you know, I believe that as I type the Gidmeister is spinning the wheels of steel in a central London location!
*our hero*
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Posted by itstimupnorth (U9862131) on Thursday, 15th September 2011
At the beginning and end of The Keef Hartley Band's 'Halfbreed' there are 2 versions of telephone conversations between Keef and John Mayall, whose band he had just left, regarding his leaving Mayall's band.
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Posted by LoudGeoffW (U11943874) on Friday, 16th September 2011
'Your Most Valuable Possession' is a phone message set to music. Not terribly exciting, mind.
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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Wednesday, 21st September 2011
One famous scene from the film "Downfall" shows Hitler on the phone and, in parodies, the person at the other end of the phone varies.
In one scene the person is Lady Gaga - so I know she has a song where she is on the telephone.
Then there's Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man" as in "my fingers did the walking on the telephone man".
Hard to believe she has been dead for nearly nine years...
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Posted by tolhurst (U14241236) on Thursday, 22nd September 2011
Courtesy of Shaun - St. Etienne's "He's on the Phone".
Which is quite low on GPO Telecommunications-related japes...
There's a "track" on Throbbing Gristle's "DoA: The Third And Final Report" which is the death threats left on their answer machine.
Nice.
More enjoyable...
On the wonderful "Hey Love", King Sun-D Moet makes a phone call during his rap.
I was playing "Closing Time" by Tom Waits over the Xmas period.
(Yep, that party at my place was really swinging!)
I'd forgotten that "Martha" is, in its melancholy way, the definitive telephone song.
That call you make at three o'clock in the morning; and then wish you hadn't...
Hello, Don't often pass this way, but thought I'd pop in and offer 6060842 by the B52's and hello this Joanie by, I think Paul Evans.
Hiya Headsoup.
Long time!
I'm sure that either of my sisters could manage to overload the telephone lines. Can the Wichita Referee overrule the Wichita Linesman? Â
I have JUST got that reference from the world of soccer.
Do you know, I believe that as I type the Gidmeister is spinning the wheels of steel in a central London location!
*our hero*Â
'I am a linesman for Notts County....'
Since the Fall have predictably covered almost every subject on earth in their 35(?) year existence - there's Telephone Thing. And of course the pinnacle - "I just called to say i love you" by S.Wonder - his greatest song ....
There's a whole Bob Dylan Theme Time Radio Hour episode about telephones.
Discovered this on it. Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
The Theme Time Radio Hour episodes are all online
Looking at the related videos there, I see "‎Peter the Meter Reader" and "The Internet Man" which appears to be a spoof.
Meri Wilson seemed to treat meter readers with a mixture of the attitude of Ben Elton/Rik Mayall/Ade Edmondson and that of a dodgy Dutch video of a washing machine repair man. How sad to be reminded that it is nearly ten years since she died.
"Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee... or, failing that, Pennsylvania 6-5000"
(Yep, a mash-up of two great American songwriters - Berry'n'Miller.)
Tom Waits - "Telephone Call From Istanbul"
Lou Reed - "New York Telephone Conversation"
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - "Get Off The Phone"
X - "Your Phone's Off The Hook But You're Not"
Deacon Blue - "When Will You Make My Telephone Ring"
Erykah Badu - "Telephone"
The Skids' "The Saints Are Coming" was just on The Chain - it begins "I cry to my daddy on the telephone" and I just HAD to add it!
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