Ether Transmissions – Telephones – 2023-03-07 (Ep. 63)

On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone. 147 years later and there are a lot of telephone related songs. Here is my selection for your listening pleasure.

  • Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
  • Four Tops - Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
  • The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789
  • Wilson Pickett - 634-5789
  • Chuck Berry - Memphis, Tennessee
  • The Surfrajettes - Party Line
  • The Kinks - Party Line
  • The Rolling Stones - Off the Hook
  • The Beatles - Any Time at All
  • Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
  • Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band
  • Laurie Anderson - Telephone Song @ Live
  • Fun Boy Three - The Telephone Always Rings
  • Buzzcocks - Phone
  • Falco - Vienna Calling
  • Yazoo - Bad Connection
  • Ruby Haunt - Answering Machine
  • The New Stan Getz Quartet, Astrud Gilberto - The Telephone Song @ Live
  • Skye - Call Me
  • Beck - Cellphone's Dead
  • Neko Case - Runnin Out of Fools
  • The B-52's - 6060-842
  • Cake - No Phone
  • Nancy - Call Me on Your Telephone
  • Arctic Monkeys - Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
  • Robin Lane & the Chartbusters - Don't Wait Till Tomorrow
  • Whatever, Dad - Death of the Phone Call
  • Kraftwerk - Der Telefon Anruf @ German Version
  • ADULT. - The Cold Call
  • The Police - Mother
  • The Replacements - Answering Machine
  • The 101ers - Silent Telephone
  • Personality Cult - Telephone
  • Violent Femmes - Telephone Book
  • The Fall - Telephone Thing
  • The Wailers - Hang Up
  • Red Axes - The Phone Call
  • Meri Wilson - Telephone Man
  • Nancy Sinatra - Call me
Airdate: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023