Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-23 Thread Bill and/or Chris
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:19:55 +0100, John Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? > I can't believe no one has mentioned 867-5309 (Jenny) yet! --Bill ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-23 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 9:56 am -0400 5/22/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >Beechwood4-5789 (early Motown) > >John Bell wrote: > >>Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? AKA "634-5789" as sung by Wilson Pickett (written by Steve Cropper & Eddie Floyd). Weirdly enough I popped "Wilson Pickett's Greates

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 11:04 AM -0400 5/22/02, Charles Small wrote: >John Bell wrote: >> > > Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? > > My former girlfriend's number was exactly "I whistle a happy tune" from "The King And I". I have such a bad memory for numbers that I would often try out com

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Charles Small
John Bell wrote: > > Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? > Not exactly, but almost. My mom was a pianist, and one birthday or Mothers' Day I got her a working novelty phone in the shape of a little piano. It had a range of a 10th, and the notes chimed as you hit A for 1,

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Homzy
"I Just Called To Say 'I Love You'" - an unlisted number, presumably. > From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Beechwood4-5789 (early Motown) > > > John Bell wrote: > >> Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? >> >> Regards >> John

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread David H. Bailey
Beechwood4-5789 (early Motown) John Bell wrote: >> It may look like that to you; I don't dispute that. But to musicians >> who are conversant with mid to late 20th Century American popular >> music and jazz conventions, this is unquestionably recognized as a 69 >> chord. > > > Many thanks

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:19 PM +0100 5/22/02, John Bell wrote: >Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? Years ago in 1966, as a 17-year-old nascent composer, I wrote an orchestral passacaglia on my girlfriend's telephone number, 889-4716. It was among the 40 compositions destroyed in The Detonacy o

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 12:19 PM +0100 5/22/02, John Bell wrote: > >Has anyone else written a song about their phone number? "Ricky Don't Lose That Number" I think it's by Steely Dan springs to mind. Has anyone else named their band after a sexual aid? 8-) ___ Finale mai

Re: [Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread Jon Delfin
John Bell wrote: > >It may look like that to you; I don't dispute that. But to > >musicians who are conversant with mid to late 20th Century American > >popular music and jazz conventions, this is unquestionably > >recognized as a 69 chord. > > Many thanks to everyone who has responded. It seems

[Finale] Pennsylvania 6-5000 (was Plea for help) TAN

2002-05-22 Thread John Bell
>It may look like that to you; I don't dispute that. But to >musicians who are conversant with mid to late 20th Century American >popular music and jazz conventions, this is unquestionably >recognized as a 69 chord. Many thanks to everyone who has responded. It seems there are as many differ