I had vowed to myself that I would hold out, but a bout of car sickness on the commute one evening swayed me and, several months ago, I surrendered and got a cell phone. I use it hesitantly. Paloma is about the only person who I call using the cell. I haven't even bothered to set up voice mail and, in fact, don't even know the number as I have not given it to anyone. (there's at least a couple of 8s and, maybe a 9 - I think) Paloma has [...]
Photography by me ! I'd like to tell you a little story... A semi-tragic love story, if you will, between myself & a little mobile phone service provider named Sprint . It's a long story, so how about we start up the tunes now, let you settle in, and snuggle up for a, hopefully, good read. Push play and let's begin our story as... TSURURADIO Presents... Baby, Don't Forget My Number!!! The Story & Mixtape Of The Trials & [...]
Jim Keller, co-founder of Tommy Tutone and co-writer of the top 5 hit 867-5309/Jenny to release solo CD January 19 Jim Keller , co-founder of rock band Tommy Tutone , and the co-writer of a song ingrained in the consciousness of a whole generation, is releasing his first album in over a decade, Sunshine In My Pocket (January 19). Buy Music: Jim Keller on amazon.com [...]
Last December I posted a compilation of cover songs perfomed by the Drive-By Trucker's . The original compiler was (and is) of unknown origin but the compilation has just been begging for a follow-up. Enter Smitty from the DBT mailing list. He's taken the liberty of assembling a new collection of covers songs culled from the numerous live DBT shows freely available on the internet. He is supposed to have a Vol. 3 already near completion as well as a collection of unreleased DBT originals. I dunno about you, but I'm looking forward to [...]
Much as I long for the days of seeing my country music at the county fair, these stories only come from living in the city.
This is what Edits are for. Do you give a crap about anything they say in this song besides "867-5309?" Tommy Tutone - 8675309 (DJ Apt One Edit) Zshare | YSI | 320 kbps
The most famous phone number of the '80s - one of the most famous in music or pop culture history for that matter - was undoubtedly the one that the band Tommy Tutone had much of the country singing in 1982..."867-5309" and we all knew to whom it belonged (some of us even tried to reach her). Although it was the group's only major hit song, twenty-five years later, a lot of people could still dial it from memory. There was no Tommy Tutone. Instead, the group was lead by singer Tommy Heath and guitarist Jim Keller who [...]
Check out NPR for a hilarious story on the dramatic effects music can have in our lives. Tommy Tutone's number is currently on eBay , courtesy of a New Jersey DJ. The top bid is over $350,000. MP3: Tommy Tutone-867-5309 MP Posted in Uncategorized
Who knew that a one-hit-wonder like Tommy Tutone would still be generating dozens of prank calls, in hundreds of towns, nearly thirty years on? This is their song: And now, one of the owners of the magic 567-5309 numbers, has decided he's had enough and is selling the number on eBay . It's great, if you don't mind up to forty calls a day from people who think (a) that it's worth calling a number on a record and (b) that it's worth calling a number on a record decades after [...]
When Tommy Tutone recorded his Top 10 hit "867-5309/Jenny" in 1982 - temporarily lessening the skank-factor for girls whose names and numbers randomly end up on bathroom stalls - he turned those seven unassuming digits into one of the most-dialed numbers in the country, because Americans can't seem to resist the power of suggestion. That explains why a guy in Weehawken, N.J. is trying to get rid of the number through an eBay auction, but doesn't quite explain why someone is willing to pay more than $400,000 for it. Our friends at [...]
Note: this is not Jenny's license plate. But Jenny's a dude from New Jersey. The iconic phone number from Tommy Tutone's 867-5309/Jenny song is up for grabs on eBay, and it already hit $5,100 by Monday morning. That piercing sound you heard was every tweenage faux-retro indie girl squealing in unison.
The '80s-tastic double bill of Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone, which was supposed to be at Harrah's VooDoo Lounge in Maryland Heights next Friday, January 16, is totally cancelled. Bogus. Here's the... Continue reading "Totally Bogus: Missing Persons and Tommy Tutone Cancel VooDoo Lounge Show" >
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Photo: Guy Eppel When I was at this year's Lollapalooza in Chicago I met Jenny Eliscu. Jenny has been with Rolling Stone for almost 10 years where she's gone from a young writer to her current role as one of the magazine's contributing editors. She's the author of Schools that Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide . When she is not writing and traveling to festivals, she hosts Left of Center on Sirius Satellite Radio. We had a great [...]
Sunday night and I have nothing to do, so I'm not waiting until Monday for this bad boy! Anyways I have an eclectic array of old and new music. Three supremely guilty tunes. Enjoy! Bro: Dude!!! Have you heard that new M.I.A. song from Pineapple Express??? It's so good! Hipster: You mean her single from the album Kala, that's over a year old? Bro: No!!! Dude! It's totally new and called Paper something, and it plays in Pineapple Express whenever they smoke! Ha! It's so totally funny [...]
Growing up in Texas, Tommy Heath was influenced by the sounds of The Beatles and Buddy Holly. By the late '70s, Heath had moved to California and, with guitarist Jim Keller, formed the band Tommy Tutone in San Francisco. Despite the musical trends of the time that saw punk and New Wave as the burgeoning musical styles, Heath and Keller drew on the classic sound of power pop for Tommy Tutone. Signed to Columbia Records, the band released their self-titled debut in 1980. Hardly a smash, the album did produce one minor hit, the song Angel Say [...]
Hoosier Sameer Mishra just captured the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship by correctly spelling guerdon. (Interesting...the word isn't in Google's spell check dictionary.) Our office has a little tradition around the spelling bee. Each employee is randomly assigned 3 contestants and the one whose contestant finishes wins gets the office trophy. I won the inaugural contest two years ago, then refused to give up my trophy last year. I'm hoping that it's still securely glued to my desk when I return to the office on Monday. In honor of Sameer and all [...]
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