Folk Songs About the Telephone

Landlines, cell phones and smartphones.

Lois Morton: The Cell Phone Song (3:02) "As I See It"
    Green Robin 84502 41515 (loismorton.com)
 David Maloney w/Ginny Reilly: Cellular Phone (3:00) "One Day More"
    Pelican 9043 (reillyandmaloney.com)
I'M ONLY LISTENING from Sloan Wainwright's first release
Sylvia Herold on her CD "a Mockingbird sings in California" The Telephone Girl.
Jimmy's Mobile Phone by Jerry Bryant from Amherst. It's on his Harbo and Samuelson CD.
Garnet Rogers - Phone Booth 508
 Night Drive - Snow Goose
Catie Curtis - On the Phone with My Sister 314
 One More Song: An Album for Club Passim - Philo
Cosy Sheridan - Car Phones and Airplanes 258
 Saturn Return - Waterbug
"Phantom Phone Call" Tim O'Brien on Chameleon.
DAVID MALONEY - Cellular Phone - One Day More - Wepecket Island Records
Roger McGuinn "Car Phone" from the CD Back From Rio 1991 
Cellular Telephone---Walking Jim Stolts---Little Piece of Time
Hang Up The Phone--Nick Mesullo---Some Kind of Sign
Suntan And The Cellular Phone---Eric Hansen---Real Slow

"Memphis Tennessee" (Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee ....") --
Chuck Berry or dozens of other versions
"236-6132" -- Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Drum Hat Buddha
Glen Campbell - Witchita Lineman
Loudon Wainwright III - OGM - Little Ships CD
Reba McIntyre's "Why Haven't I Heard From You"
Chuck McCabe - Can't Hang Up
Les Barker - Voice Mail - Arovertherapy CD
Cheryl Wheeler "Its The Phone" from Defying Gravity
Arlo Guthrie --- "Telephone"
Eric Talor - Big Love
Camille West - Toe to Toe
James Keelaghan - Get to You
Berrymans - Orange Cocoa Cake
Artisan - Put Me through to heaven
Garnet Rogers - Roman Coin

From Jim Rigby:
"Rings" -- Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon on "Sixty Six Steps"
"Hi Sal, Have You Checked Your Email" -- Grit Laskin on "A Few Simple Words"
"Phone Messages" -- Mustard's Retreat on "A Resolution of Something"
"On The Phone With My Sister" -- Catie Curtis on "One More Song/Club Passim"
compilation
"Harry's Last Call" -- Bill Morrissey on "Something I Saw or Though I Saw"

From Peter Fraissinet:
Broken Telephone / Be Good Tanyas / Blue Horse / Nettwerk / CD
Cajun Telephone Stomp / Beausoleil / Cajun Conja / RNA / cassette
Hello Central, Give Me Long Distance Phone / Leadbelly / Leadbelly's Last Sessions
No Telephone In Heaven / Carter Family 
The Royal Telephone / Jean Ritchie
The Telephone Girl / Doc Watson, David Holt / Legacy / High Windy / CD
The Telephone Girl / The Red Clay Ramblers / Twisted Laurel / Flying Fish / LP

From Ruby Slippers:
It’s the phone/Cheryl wheeler/defying gravity.
Regretting what I said/christine lavin/future fossils.
Jesus on the mainline/ dry branch fire squad/live at the Newbury  Port firehouse.
Hippies, beatniks and power easements/dry branch fire squad/ live at the Newbury port firehouse
Jesus on the radio/tom t. hall/the ultimate collection.
*69/Christine lavin/please don't make me too happy.
Telephoning the blues/Victoria Spivey/great women blues singers of the 20’s.
Talk backwards/steve Goodman/no big surprise, the Steve Goodman anthology.
Trouble on the line/Loretta lynn/van Lear rose.
Telephone/Shelby Lynn/this is Americana.
waiting for you to call/therapy sisters/mood swings
Operator / Eddie from Ohio

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