Doesn’t everybody have 10-digit phone numbers now? Nothing would happen if I tried dialing this number here, unless I put our local area code first, in which case I’m trying too hard…
Just reading this thread puts you at risk.
I was apprehensive about playing my Ipod on rock shuffle this afternoon - I just had a feeling that damn song would come up. Instead, the very first song that played was this.
I have been told that when shopping and you need to get the discounts for being a member, try using Jenny’s number. It seems many people have programmed that into their frequent shopper card.
In many parts of the U.S., including where I live, you don’t need to use the area code in dialing. Seven digits will connect you to any number within the area code.
Try calling the Zombie Hotline to find out.
Ask for Jenny.
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In 1982, WLS radio obtained the number from a Chicago woman, receiving 22,000 calls in four days.
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I guess they gave it back.
For a while here in the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) area, the number belonged to Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, and the the commercial jingle went to the tune of “Jenny”, with “Benny” replacing “Jenny” and the other lyrics being all plumbing-related.
It works in (323) at Vons Market and CVS Pharmacy.
Well this isn’t the first song to use a phone number in the lyrics. In the early 1960s The Marvellettes had a hit with BEechwood 45789. Back then phone exchanges had names instead of numbers. And several years later Wilson Pickett had a hit with “6345789”* which was a slightly different number and a much better song IMHO. I’m sure the owners of those particular phone numbers received a good many calls from teenagers as well.
*Recognize the guitar player at 1:40 in the video?
Nice tune. Easy to guess who the guitarist would be, without seeing the photo, given what I knew of his sideman work. Fun photo.
Hendrix
Whenever I am asked for a phone number during a retail transaction, I give them 634-5789. In the Midwest, at least, it usually goes unnoticed. One afternoon I was buying something at Cabela’s the checker was an African American woman about my age. Her response to the number was “Yeah, sure…” but she smiled and entered it.
Thanks for bringing up 6345789. Love that song and hadn’t heard it in ages. Just added it to my MP3 library. 
Must have been an earworm for Bruce Springsteen as well.
He couldn’t get it out of his head so 26 year after “Jenny” was released, he stole the opening riff and made it his own in his song “Radio Nowhere” .
What a tool.
I’ll give 777-9311 as a fake telephone number. No one will get it. Not even if you pronounce exactly like Morris Day.