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EPISODIX:

Posted:

July 3, 2018

Music:

• The Kinks “Party Line” Face To Face (Reprise Records) 1966
• The Nerves  “Hanging On The Telephone” The Nerves (The Nerves) 1976
• Pete Shelley “Telephone Operator” XL·1 (Arista, Genetic Records) 1983
• Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line” A New World Record (Jet, United Artists) 1976
• Todd Rundgren “Hello It’s Me” Something/Anything? (Bearsville) 1972
• The Marvelettes “Beechwood 4-5789” Playboy (Tamla) 1962
• The Replacements “Answering Machine” Let It Be (Twin/Tone) 1984

Where credit is due: Telephone photo uploaded by Pixabay user Momentmal (released under Creative Commons CC0).

Notes:

Patrick and Dan Gursky (who’s still subbing in for Jim) talk about tracks that involve the telephone.

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