Listening to The Kinks' "Party Line," I thought of a paper idea that I'm sure I'll never use. The paper would "attempt to understand the social role of telephony through the textual analysis of popular songs." Aside from "Party Line," texts might include the B-52's "6060-842," Chuck Berry's "Memphis Tennessee," "Hangin' on the Telephone" by Blondie, and, perhaps, "Pennsylvania 6-5000." I'm excluding Tommy Tutone's "867-5309" because, um, I don't like that song. These are just the few songs that I thought of off the top of my head; I'm sure readers could think of more tunes.
Bigelow 6-200 by Brenda Lee
Posted by: edith at July 3, 2003 01:21 AM"Telephone Call" by Kraftwerk
Posted by: edith again at July 3, 2003 01:25 AMthe whole Bye Bye, Birdie soundtrack.
Posted by: rolin at July 3, 2003 08:32 AM"Operator" by Jim Croce and by the way, you couldn't do the whole soundtrack from Bye Bye Birdie. Just "the telephone song."
Posted by: cayce at July 3, 2003 02:01 PMLudacris. "Area Codes"
"I've got ho's... in different codes"
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