Famous Phone Number songs?
March 7, 2023 1:54 PM Subscribe
Looking for songs that have phone numbers in the title or lyrics. I can only think of two obvious examples - the jazz standard Pennsylvania 6 5000 & Jenny Jenny (867-5309) but I know there must be more.
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Best answer: Partridge Family, Echo Valley 2-6809
And a few lists/threads:
Who you gonna call?
Songs with phone numbers
(The first one's a better list, but it misses out things like City Boy's "5705".)
posted by kristi at 2:05 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
And a few lists/threads:
Who you gonna call?
Songs with phone numbers
(The first one's a better list, but it misses out things like City Boy's "5705".)
posted by kristi at 2:05 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: 777-9311 by Prince and The Time
posted by Mitheral at 2:07 PM on March 7, 2023 [7 favorites]
posted by Mitheral at 2:07 PM on March 7, 2023 [7 favorites]
Best answer: 281-330-8004 Mike Jones - Back Then
posted by so fucking future at 2:08 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by so fucking future at 2:08 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Sir Mix-a-lot implores you to dial 1-900-MIX-A-LOT
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:08 PM on March 7, 2023 [18 favorites]
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:08 PM on March 7, 2023 [18 favorites]
John Hiatt's I Don't Even Try:
posted by offog at 2:09 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
I thought I had your number, there must be some mistake, I dialled 637-1188.
posted by offog at 2:09 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
Gravediggaz - 1-800-SUICIDE (content warning, it's a horrorcore rap song about suicide)
posted by box at 2:13 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by box at 2:13 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
967-11-11 is so ubiquitous in Canada (or Ontario?) that it is supposedly used by border agents testing whether people claiming to live in Canada really live in Canada.
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 2:14 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by If only I had a penguin... at 2:14 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
Ayo Jay - Your Number (0 102 656-540-7853)
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:15 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by JoeZydeco at 2:15 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Tom Waits - "I'll Shoot the Moon" from The Black Rider. In the song, he says: "You know I love you, baby/So why don't you call me?/You know my number/392-7704, call anytime"
posted by Kitteh at 2:16 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by Kitteh at 2:16 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Hawkshaw Hawkins, Lonesome 7-7203.
posted by offog at 2:16 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by offog at 2:16 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
AC/DC give a fake phone number in Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
The lyrics are: Call me anytime
just ring 36 24 36
I lead a life of crime.
with 36 24 36 being the stereotypical 'hourglass' proportions for women. Classy.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:19 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
The lyrics are: Call me anytime
just ring 36 24 36
I lead a life of crime.
with 36 24 36 being the stereotypical 'hourglass' proportions for women. Classy.
posted by The_Vegetables at 2:19 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
Jay-Z f Beanie Siegel, Memphis Bleek, and Freeway - 1-900-HUSTLER
posted by box at 2:20 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by box at 2:20 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: The B-52s have 606-0842 but it's patterned 6060-842.
posted by Mitheral at 2:23 PM on March 7, 2023 [8 favorites]
posted by Mitheral at 2:23 PM on March 7, 2023 [8 favorites]
If we're including jingles, we might as well go to the TV Tropes source.
posted by miguelcervantes at 2:28 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by miguelcervantes at 2:28 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Beechwood 4-5789
You can call me up and have a date, any old time.
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:38 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
You can call me up and have a date, any old time.
posted by Pallas Athena at 2:38 PM on March 7, 2023 [2 favorites]
The best in men's clothing
Call Paul's Boutique, ask for Janice
The number is, ah, 718-498-1043
That's Paul's Boutique, and they're in Brooklyn
posted by kevinbelt at 2:42 PM on March 7, 2023 [7 favorites]
Call Paul's Boutique, ask for Janice
The number is, ah, 718-498-1043
That's Paul's Boutique, and they're in Brooklyn
posted by kevinbelt at 2:42 PM on March 7, 2023 [7 favorites]
Response by poster: Answering my own thread (these are all awesome so far!)
LITTLE BRENDA LEE - Bigelow 6-200
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:03 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
LITTLE BRENDA LEE - Bigelow 6-200
posted by Devils Rancher at 3:03 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
'Call 222-2222, I got an answering machine that can talk to you'
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
posted by box at 3:06 PM on March 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
posted by box at 3:06 PM on March 7, 2023 [5 favorites]
Does a commercial jingle count? Because 800-588-2300 will forever live in my head.
posted by fedward at 3:17 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by fedward at 3:17 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
967-11-11 is so ubiquitous in Canada (or Ontario?)
Ha. Came here to say that if commercial jingles are allowed as "songs," various Pizza Pizza ones from over the years:
Pizza Pizza 967-1111
PIZZA PIZZA - WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE NUMBER TORONTO?
...and from a different pizza chain:
439-OH-OH-OH-OH PIZZA NOVA (the phone number ends in "0000").
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:24 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Ha. Came here to say that if commercial jingles are allowed as "songs," various Pizza Pizza ones from over the years:
Pizza Pizza 967-1111
PIZZA PIZZA - WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE NUMBER TORONTO?
...and from a different pizza chain:
439-OH-OH-OH-OH PIZZA NOVA (the phone number ends in "0000").
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 6:24 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
281 330 8004. Get Mike Jones up on the low cause Mike Jones about to blow!
posted by Ardnamurchan at 6:42 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Ardnamurchan at 6:42 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Get a leg up on the pile and refinance your dreams!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 8:17 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 8:17 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Mojo Nixon inviting Elvis to call him at 619-239-KING, Nixon's actual phone number at the time.
posted by Performing Without Annette at 8:53 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by Performing Without Annette at 8:53 PM on March 7, 2023 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Lyle Lovett, Hello Grandma
Grandma is this 924-8838posted by mark k at 8:55 PM on March 7, 2023 [1 favorite]
Yes young man it certainly is
That's the problem grandma
I have made a mistake
I ain't called this number
In too many years
I ain't called this number
In too many years
Dial 999 if you really want the truth
Dial 999 if you can't see it through
He ain't jack the ripper he's your ordinary crook
Call him Maxwell Murder for you
posted by Jon_Evil at 9:49 PM on March 7, 2023
Dial 999 if you can't see it through
He ain't jack the ripper he's your ordinary crook
Call him Maxwell Murder for you
posted by Jon_Evil at 9:49 PM on March 7, 2023
From the musical Bells Are Ringing, the song "It's a Perfect Relationship."
I'm in love with a man
Plaza-O-Double-Four-Double-Three
It's a perfect relationship
I can't see him, he can't see me
posted by less-of-course at 5:07 AM on March 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
I'm in love with a man
Plaza-O-Double-Four-Double-Three
It's a perfect relationship
I can't see him, he can't see me
posted by less-of-course at 5:07 AM on March 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
It's a bit more tenuous than some of the other examples here, but there's a section at the end of the Lana Del Rey song Dealer where she riffs on the fictional 555 area code.
posted by terretu at 5:18 AM on March 8, 2023
posted by terretu at 5:18 AM on March 8, 2023
Soul Coughing, Janine
"And as I drifted off, I heard Al Roker say to me:
Dial 1-900-4-J-A-N-I-N-E."
posted by dlugoczaj at 10:11 AM on March 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
"And as I drifted off, I heard Al Roker say to me:
Dial 1-900-4-J-A-N-I-N-E."
posted by dlugoczaj at 10:11 AM on March 8, 2023 [1 favorite]
Information (aka 411) by Day By the River is not a great song, but it repeats "555-1212, Information" over and over again (starts around 3:45 into that recording).
posted by griseus at 10:32 AM on March 8, 2023
posted by griseus at 10:32 AM on March 8, 2023
1-800-222-1222 (Poison Control) and the Spanish version
posted by Seeking Direction at 12:59 PM on March 8, 2023
posted by Seeking Direction at 12:59 PM on March 8, 2023
In the Ghostface Killah song "Winter Warz," Cappadonna says:
Smoke a blunt and dial 917/
160493 11
Amongst many other things
posted by SystematicAbuse at 7:52 PM on March 8, 2023
Smoke a blunt and dial 917/
160493 11
Amongst many other things
posted by SystematicAbuse at 7:52 PM on March 8, 2023
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