And here’s from the disco era, The Sylvers with Hot Line. I had this thing on a 45.
No Reply- The Beatles
I tried to telephone
They said you were not home
That’s a lie
Although to be fair, post no 24 beat me to it.
Stevie Wonder’s song Part Time Lover includes these phone-related lyrics:
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
I’ve got something that I must tell
Last night someone rang our doorbell
And it was not you, my part-time lover
And then a man called our exchange
But didn’t want to leave his name
I guess that two can play the game
Of part-time lovers
Even in 1984, “called our exchange” seemed like a rather outdated reference done solely for a rhyme—and not a particularly good rhyme.
The Queers - I Just Called to Say Fuck You
Callin’ Baton Rouge - originally recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys, but the Garth Brooks cover may be more well-known.
“Operator won’t you put me on through
I gotta’ send my love down to Baton Rouge
Hurry up won’t you put her on the line
I gotta’ talk to the girl just one more time”
Why Don’t That Telephone Ring - by Tracy Byrd
*"I had the operator call me back
She said my phone is working fine
I hear in Louisville it’s almost dawn
But it’s 2 a.m. Pacific time.
I thought sure she would’ve called by now
To tell me all about that wild and crazy LA scene
Well, I know my number’s in her book
Why don’t that telephone ring?"*
Chris Montez: Call Me
So cute. Hard to believe we were ever that innocent.
Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night
Is it the crack of the pool balls
Neon buzzin’
Telephone’s ringin’
It’s your second cousin
I’m seriously the first one to mention ABBA “Ring, Ring (Bara du slog en signal)”
ETA: English translation
Maxwell Edison,
Majoring in medicine,
Calls her on the phone…
The Beatles
“At My Most Beautiful”
R.E.M.
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Smooth Operator - Sade.
(d+r)
A phone call runs through the verses of Don McClean’s Three Flights Up
If you don’t mean a thing
You’ll find your phone won’t ring
I’ll call you back and have a nice day
Good one! That was going to be mine.
I will offer:
**Elvis Costello - Toledo
**
mmm
Also, from “No Action”, a classic Costello pun:
Every time I phone you
I just want to put you down
Wings’ Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey has a phone call, while Lennon’s I’m Losing You" (maybe the only half-decent song off that “DF” dreck of an album) has the lyrics:
Somehow the wires have crossed
Communication’s lost
Can’t even get you on the telephone
10CC mention “And just because/I call you up/Don’t get me wrong, don’t think you’ve got it made” in “Not in Love”.
Can’t remember if that insipid “Jenny (867-5309)” number’s been mentioned yet.
In Janis Ian’s “At 17” she mentions:
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say “Come dance with me”
And murmured vague obscenities
It was mentioned right there in the OP. And there’s nothing insipid about that great song!
Well, I’m the first one to mention ABBA’s Super Trouper
I was sick and tired of everything
When I called you last night from Glasgow
All I do is eat and sleep and sing
Wishing every show was the last show (wishing every show was the last show)
So imagine I was glad to hear you’re coming (glad to hear you’re coming)
Suddenly I feel all right
(And suddenly it’s gonna be)
And it’s gonna be so different
When I’m on the stage tonight
When Gerard Alessandrini realized he’d parodied every character from Les Mis but Eponine, he wrote “On My Phone” to the tune of “On My Own”
Rotating upstage where it’s dark there isn’t anyone to talk to
I say my lines, I hit my mark, but I keep looking at the clock, too
Until I enter next there’s lots of time to send…
A text.
Oh my phone I check up on my voicemail
On my phone behind the Les Mis rubble
Without lights the murky shadows hide me
In case I’m feeling bored I keep my iPhone close beside me
On my phone, while Jean Valjean is weeping
I can call the jerk with whom I’m sleeping
In the darkness I still can text a message
And gossip with my girlfriend while I’m singing “On My Own”
(CELL PHONE RINGS)
(Speaking) Just a second. Hello? Oh hi, where are you guys? Oh, Act Two? We’re still in Act One. Okay, no, no, I’ll call you later after I die.
(Singing) Rotate me…and shoot me.
(BANG!)
I’m dying to call you on my phone.
Two very, very sad ones (be warned):
Leonard Cohen’s “It Seems So Long Ago Nancy” about a woman who commits suicide
It seems so long ago,
Nancy was alone,
A forty five beside her head,
An open telephone.
Tom Paxton’s “Phil,” about the suicide of Phil Ochs
The phone started ringing, had I heard about it?
I shook every time I heard it ring
What was my reaction? I put the phone down
That was the only news that was fit to sing
They ask about Dylan, about MacDougal Street and Third
Question piled on question and each question more absurd
All good - I got it 
From Dave Edmunds’ I’m Ready:
Talkin’ on the phone is not my speed
Don’t send me no letter 'cause I can’t read
In Promised Land Chuck Berry mentions:
Cut your engines, an cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.
Rod Stewart’s If You Think I’m Sexy has the lyric “Give me a dime so I can call my mother.” Pay phones are no longer a dime, and who needs them in this age of cell phones?