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I can say that the above looks just like the first telephone that I ever saw in my apartment in the late 1960s. The good ol' rotary phone. Never got to use the even older model where people had to crank it up and yell "Maisie! Is that you? I'm calling Pennsylvania 65000!".
Earlier today, the first article for Urban Contemporary Friday on KKP was Mariko Tone's（刀根麻里子） "Private Number" and that got me thinking that among the many different themes I've had for Author's Picks, one common object that I had yet to highlight was the telephone. And yet, as soon as I put up "Private Number", suddenly all these phone-themed tunes came back to mind. So, to finish my contributions today, I'm putting up my telephone or denwa songs. Not all of them are City Pop, mind you, but enough of them are including the one with City Pop's most famous number.
(1973) Finger Five -- Koi no Dial Six-Seven-Oh-Oh （恋のダイヤル6700）
(1976) Akiko Yano -- Denwa Sen （電話線）
(1981) Kyoko Endo -- Kokuhaku Telephone （告白テレフォン）
(1981) Junko Ohashi -- Telephone Number
Before reading this article I am not sure if I could have thought of any phone number themed songs. It was a lot fun listening to this motley crew mix of phone number themed songs.
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