Telephony, Telegraphy

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Songs about or referencing telephones, telegraphs, or similar communication methods.

1 Central theme
2 Briefly mentioned
3 Ringtone songs
4 Honorable mentions
5 See also

[edit] Central theme

Hidden Track (Mono Puff) - "Your call is very very very very important to us. Please hold, and your call will be answered by the next available operator. This message will not be repeated."
I Can Hear You - wireless phones, intercoms
Kendra McCormick - the song is recorded as an answering machines message
Phone Cord
Rabid Child - "Rabid Child stays at home, talks on a C.B."
She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - Flansburgh impersonates an interactive voice response system throughout the extended drum solo.
Wake Up Call

[edit] Briefly mentioned

Absolutely Bill's Mood - "He calls when I'm alone and he calls when I'm not home," plus the phoned-in guitar solo
Ana Ng - Features Lisa Klapp's voice recorded over a telephone, and the song includes a typical telephone ring. Additionally, several telephones are used in the video
Bed Bed Bed - Phones ringing in background
The Bloodmobile - messages delivered by the blood in a telegraphic manner
Cage & Aquarium - "Then you hear a moment too late this sound coming over the phone"
Complete Paranoia - "The phone rang..." and "We've traced the phone call..."
Damn Good Times - "She makes a lot of calls" (are these telephone calls, or curtain calls?)
Destination Moon - "Don't bother to call this room; there's nobody here who can pick up"
Don't Let's Start - "You are the phone"
The Famous Polka - "But when the phone inside her rib cage rings, it's not for me"
Feast Of Lights - "You never call"
For Science - "sirens declare..."
The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - "The lion's on the phone", telephone used in video
Hot Cha - "Then the phone rang off the hook"
I Need Some Lovin' - "To call my phone machine and hang me up at night"
I Should Be Allowed To Think - "I should have a call-in show"
If I Wasn't Shy - "I'd burn the all the intercoms"
I'll Sink Manhattan - "I'll find your answering machine"
I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "To call you up on the phone"
It's Kickin' In - "Panic call to her best friend on the phone"
I've Got A Match - "Put down the phone"
Love Is Eternity - "And Lisa, when you're surrounded by debt...Trapped on a cellphone"
My Man - theme of communication between body parts, music theme representing telegraph
New York City - "You called me last night on the telephone"
Operators Are Standing By - Telephone operators
Pencil Rain - Morse code message played
Piece Of Dirt - "A woman's voice on the telephone"
Seven - "Talking on the telephone"
The Shadow Government - "I picked up my broken phone"
She's An Angel - "The secretary says he's on another line, can I hold for a long, long time?"
(She Was A) Hotel Detective - "And she's tappin' the calls"
So Long, Mockingbird - "Laughing on the telephone line"
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Telephone call for Mr. Horrible"
Swing Is A Word - "387-6962" the dial-a-song phone number
They'll Need A Crane - "Don't call me at work again"
Turn Around - "Called me up from a phone near my building"
Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - "I hear the phone ring"
The World's Address (Joshua Fried Remix) - "You wanna give me a 10-9 on that, pig-pen?"
Yeh Yeh - "I call my baby and ask her what we could do"

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