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
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023