Radio Stew: Phones

Nov 10, 2013: 12:05 am- 5am
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Phone numbers in songs are not for calling. Do not call "Pennsylvania 6-5000" (Glenn Miller), "634-5789" (Wilson Pickett), "Beechwood 4-5789" (The Marvelettes), "Bigelow 6-200" (Brenda Lee), "842-3089" (Etta James), "Lonesome 7-7203" (Hawkshaw Hawkins), "619-239-KING" (Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper), 424-689 (The Kinks in "Long Tall Shorty"), "867-5309" (Tommy Tutone), "853-5937" (Squeeze), "6060-842" (The B-52s), "777-9311" (The Time), "Echo Valley 2-6809" (The Partridge Family), "911" (Public Enemy's "911 is a Joke"), or "Star 69" (R.E.M.). Then, cell phone sounds and stories and songs. Including some from Roger McGuinn ("Car Phone"), The Magnetic Fields ("The Machine in Your Hand"), Beck ("Cellphone's Dead"), Lady Gaga and Beyonce ("Telephone," "Video Phone"), Eels ("Birdgirl on a Cell Phone"), Willie Nile ("Cell Phones Ringing [In the Pockets of Dead People]"), Drive-By Truckers ("George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues"), M.I.A. ("Paper Planes"), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ("Jammin' Me"). Then, to make your call, you have to talk to the operator first. Lily Tomlin, and others, explain. Listen to The White Stripes ("Hello Operator"), Jim Croce ("Operator"), Nick Lowe ("Switch Board Susan"), Mary Wells ("Operator"), Talking Heads ("Dream Operator"), Roseanne Cash ("Radio Operator"), The Band ("Long Distance Operator"), Chuck Berry ("Memphis, Tennessee"), Midnight Star ("Operator"), Pete Shelley ("Telephone Operator"), Gladys Knight & The Pips ("Operator"), Senor Coconut ("Smooth Operator") and others. Finally, phone sex. Billy Joel's "Sometimes a Fantasy," Superchunk's "Phone Sex," Soulja Boy's "Kiss Me Thur The Phone," and other songs and sounds are explored.