Plumbers fight for famous phone number
“It’s ridiculous,” said [Tommy "Tutone"] Heath. “If I wanted to get into it, I could probably take the number away from both of them.” ⇒
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May 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Alex Call actually wrote that song. You can read about the history of it on his website here: http://www.alexcall.nstemp.com/linernotes.html (scroll down a bit)
May 20th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Thanks, Cathy. It is, indeed, an interesting case. The story grabbed my attention b/c it wasn’t long ago that I was sitting in a bar w/colleagues who were talking about trying to get that number in the local area code and/or what they’d get if they just started calling that number in every area code around the country.