Another insight into how my brain works: I was making a joke based on "867-5309" (the supposed telephone number of "Jenny").
then I realized:
In the 1940s, we had PEnnsylvania 6-5000
In the 1960s, we had 634-5789 (And yes, I had to look that up, even though I know I have a recording of the Wilson Pickett song)
In the 1980s, we have 867-5309
Is there a phone number song for the 2000s?
(I checked here. The only other numbered song is 606-0842, by the B-52s, which I am spectacularly unfamiliar with. Apparently it came out long before 2000, though.
Also, it might make an amusing (if thin) plot for a cartoon or something to have someone find a 1980s-era cell phone, dial in 867-5309, and be taken back in time.
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Nowhere near the 2000's but there's also 853-5937 by Squeeze from 1988.
Weirdly, the other Sixties telephone-number song - the Marvelettes' "Beechwood 4-5789" - is only one digit away from Wilson Pickett's.
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