# Hello? Songs about phones/phone calls **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263 "2019-07-18T17:14:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/41 "2019-07-18T20:08:23Z")
Suzanne Fellini - [Making Love On the Phone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7seOxW57zKg) Muddy Waters - [Long Distance Call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ihX1vbs014) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/42 "2019-07-18T20:18:44Z")
“It’s Me Again, Margaret” by Ray Stevens ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/43 "2019-07-18T20:26:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > “It’s Me Again, Margaret” by Ray Stevens Oh, nice one. 😃 [Nobody](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=sylvia+nobody+lyrics), by Sylvia “Your nobody called today, she hung up when I asked her name…” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/44 "2019-07-18T20:49:52Z")
Billy Joel – [Sometimes a Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJg1finpyU) I didn’t want to do it but I got too lonely I had to call you up in the middle of the night I know it’s awful hard to try to make love long distance (_pant pant pant_) But I really needed stimulation Though it was only my imagination ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/45 "2019-07-18T20:56:34Z")
Something from leftfield: Helge Schneider - [Telefonmann](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ZSWndl3-E) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/46 "2019-07-18T20:59:15Z")
Dire Straights - [Calling Elvis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYAHmjaeoTA) ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/47 "2019-07-18T20:59:54Z")
I’m seriously the first one to mention [ABBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL0EoXdpOqg)? Woot! _Ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call? Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all_ Bonus retro points for the phone being \* on the wall\* ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/48 "2019-07-18T21:01:33Z")
_Almost_ - Sarah Harmer _George Jones Talkin’ Cell-phone Blues_ - Drive-By Truckers ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/49 "2019-07-18T21:04:46Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Blondie - [Hanging On the Telephone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWhkbDMISl8) Also [Call Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8LS-vTyS4). ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/50 "2019-07-18T21:05:54Z")
5705 - City Boy [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AHm3w-50Vwc/hqdefault.jpg "City Boy - 5-7-0-5 [totp2]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHm3w-50Vwc) Buzz buzz a diddle it - Freddy Cannon Ring Ring - Abba Hello, this is Joannie (The telephone answering machine song) - Paul Evans Busy Line - Rose Murphy [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lwfzjbjuHVU/maxresdefault.jpg "Rose Murphy - Busy Line") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfzjbjuHVU) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/51 "2019-07-18T22:15:17Z")
No Doubt - [Spiderwebs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZktNItwexo) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/52 "2019-07-18T22:46:15Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > I’m seriously the first one to mention [ABBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL0EoXdpOqg)? Woot! > > _Ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call? > Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all_ > > Bonus retro points for the phone being \* on the wall\* Ditto Blondie’s “Hanging on the Telephone” mentioned by **silenus** upthread. Rolling with this digression, the most recent song I can think of where the phone’s on the wall is the Barenaked Ladies’ “The Old Apartment”: _Broke into the old apartment Tore the phone out of the wall_ No phone call, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/53 "2019-07-18T23:04:13Z")
ABBA also has [Ring Ring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL0EoXdpOqg). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/54 "2019-07-18T23:16:57Z")
_“I call you on the telephone, my voice too rough from cigarettes…”_ – You Better You Bet, The Who ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/55 "2019-07-18T23:21:19Z")
[_Car Phone_ by **Sheeler & Sheeler**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF-iAV9YOqY). It’s a parody of _Convoy_ by C.W. McCall. It was recorded in 1995 when yuppies had “car phones” in the BMWs. Not a song. Just a short conversation: [_Telephone Conversation_ by **The Mothers of Invention**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yuHkHiEXN4) In [The Blimp](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpA4XpnnI_U) on **Captain Beefheart’s** Trout Mask Replica album, Antennae Jimmy Semens (Jeff Cotton) is talking through a real telephone, while The Mothers of Invention are playing in the background. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/56 "2019-07-18T23:25:42Z")
Lou Reed - [New York Telephone Conversation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7gBPBBZHw4) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/57 "2019-07-18T23:34:21Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > [Answering Machine](https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=answering+machine+lyric+rupert+holmes), Rupert Holmes No clue if this is a remake or homage or whatever, but Green Velvet also has an Answering Machine. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/isSPvgnG6iU/hqdefault.jpg "Green Velvet - Answering Machine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isSPvgnG6iU) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/58 "2019-07-18T23:46:32Z")
You Won’t See Me by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/59 "2019-07-18T23:48:47Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > [_Car Phone_ by **Sheeler & Sheeler**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF-iAV9YOqY). It’s a parody of _Convoy_ by C.W. McCall. It was recorded in 1995 when yuppies had “car phones” in the BMWs. Roger McGuinn also has a song titled [Car Phone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsxGys7pGB4) > [@](#): > > Not a song. Just a short conversation: [_Telephone Conversation_ by **The Mothers of Invention**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yuHkHiEXN4) A “song” that’s actually a real, recorded telephone conversation set to music: Chagall Guevara - [The Wrong George](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nRboFgu8Tc) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263/60 "2019-07-18T23:51:55Z")
Steppenwolf’s [_Earschplittenloudenboomer_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkpLo3FqAWw) isn’t about a phone call _per se_, but it does begin with one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-songs-about-phones-phone-calls/837263.md?page=4)