867-5309.....what is the signifigance of this number?!


Question: musical general knowledge....just want 2 see who gets it right 1st...gl


Answers: musical general knowledge....just want 2 see who gets it right 1st...gl

jenny!! good ol tommy tutone

its jenny's number, its a song

Its the girlfriend Jenny!
Tommy Tutone is the band

Songwriter Alex Call came up with this while sitting under a plum tree. Says Call: "Despite all the mythology to the contrary, I actually just came up with the 'Jenny,' and the telephone number and the music and all that just sitting in my backyard. There was no Jenny. I don't know where the number came from, I was just trying to write a 4-chord Rock song and it just kind of came out. This was back in 1981 when I wrote it, and I had at the time a little squirrel-powered 4-track in this industrial yard in California, and I went up there and made a tape of it. I had the guitar lick, I had the name and number, but I didn't know what the song was about. This buddy of mine, Jim Keller, who's the co-writer, was the lead guitar player in Tommy Tutone. He stopped by that afternoon and he said, 'Al, it's a girl's number on a bathroom wall,' and we had a good laugh. I said, 'That's exactly right, that's exactly what it is.' I had the thing recorded. I had the name and number, and they were in the same spots, 'Jenny... 867-5309.' I had all that going, but I had a blind spot in the creative process, I didn't realize it would be a girl's number on a bathroom wall. When Jim showed up, we wrote the verses in 15 or 20 minutes, they were just obvious. It was just a fun thing, we never thought it would get cut. In fact, even after Tommy Tutone made the record and '867-5309' got on the air, it really didn't have a lot of promotion to begin with, but it was one of those songs that got a lot of requests and stayed on the charts. It was on the charts for 40 weeks."

This was a really BARN BURNER!!!

Funny irrelevant story:
A long time ago I was working at Wal*Mart Layaway and I was lugging a kids kitchen playset into the bowels of the store, when I happened to look at the picture. On the play telephone was a phone number- 867-5309.
I always wondered if anyone else ever saw that and got the significance.

i think it was an actual phone number and when the song first came out, she had to change her number coz she was getting lots of prank calls.
is this what started the 555-xxxx in movies and television?

that tommy tutone, i tell ya.

According to the story behind the Tommy Tutone song,the lead singer actually got Jenny's number from a bathroom wall and the group had a hit song with it.The Jenny in question has never come foward and said it was her who helped inspire that song...of course,she had to get her number changed...

Just a phone number in a song.



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