Single:
Telephone Line entered the Australian singles chart* on 11 July 1977 and peaked at #10. The song was #64 on the Top 100 of 1977.
Album:
The song is on A New World Record which entered the Australian albums chart* on 20 December 1976. It reached #1 on 18 April 1977 and held that spot for 9 weeks.
Songwriter:
Jeff Lynne
Producer:
Jeff Lynne
Record label of Australian release:
United Artists
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
STUDIO VERSION
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Wikipedia:
With ELO’s continuing success in America it seemed obvious to frontman Jeff Lynne to use an American ring tone during Telephone Line. Lynne explained: To get the sound on the beginning, you know, the American telephone sound, we phoned from England to America to a number that we know nobody would be at, to just listen to it for a while. On the Moog, we recreated the sound exactly by tuning the oscillators to the same notes as the ringing of the phone.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Line_(song)
Lyrics:
Hello, how are you?
Have you been alright through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely nights? That′s what I’d say
I′d tell you everything if you’d pick up that telephone
Yeah, yeah, yeah
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