Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 10, 2023

Need a used car? Call BR549 and ask for ___________.

Junior Samples.

I thought that would be dangerously modern for some pluggers.

Eh but who be Jenny?

I still know Empire Carpets’ phone number from their TV commercial: " five eight eight two three hundred… EMPIIIIRE!" Only Chicago/northwest Indiana residents will recognize that.

Tommy Tutone …

I remember the national news said that a LOT of people in different area codes with the phone number 867 5309 were getting really mad about getting calls asking for Jenny! A LOT of calls…

Boston area: “How many cookies did Andrew eat? Andrew8=8000. How do you keep your carpets clean? Call Andrew8-8000.”

There’s also that great old Beachwood 45789.

867 was the local exchange of my childhood. I was in high school when the song came out on the radio. The girl at school with that number was not named Jenny. But it was fun to have a song that sounded like it was “ours”.

I used the music for my wife’s phone number when calling when we were dating. She could never understand why I was so bouncy on the phone when she answered.

Can’t read those numbers without singing it!

It’s kind of a gut check to realize that the song is over 42 years old. Not only that, but next month will mark the 40th anniversary of Metallica’s debut album “Kill ’Em All”.

I don’t know any Jennys. But I do remember my childhood phone number.

And don’t forget Pennsylvania 6-5000.Oh, and I still remember Crazy Eddie’s phone number from those silly commercials with DJ Jerry Carroll: 645-1196. Those ads were on the TV constantly back in the 1970s and ’80s.

Get ready for some hip-swiveling…the twist.

One of my favorite Chuck Berry tunes:

♪♫ "Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia.

Tidewater four ten O nine.

Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin’

And the poor boy’s on the line." ♫♪

Our telephone number when I was in the first grade was LOgan 32859.

I still remember my parents and my aunts phone number from the 1950’s.

Sing it, Papa Bear ! LOL…

Rikki don’t lose that number. :)

Jenny was Forrest Gump’s girl.

Heck, I can remember “Pennsylvania 6-5000” (the original by Glen Miller). I do know about the “Transylvania” parody.

I must be an older plugger. I remember Wilson Picket’s 634-5789.

I’m so old that I remember listen to my boss telling Lee, “Are you serious? You want us to walk across that open field during the daylight hours? Tell my wife I won’t be home for dinner!”

Yeah, I remember her phone number. :o)