Jenny’s Back and More Expensive Than Ever
This morning, I recalled the auction a few years back, where someone was auctioning off their phone number. The winning bidder would own the cell phone number and it would be ported over when they paid. Who would bid a bajillion dollars for a phone number. Well, since California 654 doesn’t mean anything anymore, of course it is 867-5309. If you have this number, than you probably have been pranked by people singing to you or finding out if “Jenny Jenny is there. Of course, this Jenny was wailed about by Tommy Tutone in some serious 80s perms.
Of course is Jenny Jenny, performed by Tommy Tutone in their 80s perms, ties, and t-shirts.
Ironically, there is yet another auction for the phone number. The one that I recall (which was for the 212 New York area code) was shut down because it was determined the number was actually owned by the phone company and could not legally be sold. However, this auctioner had that base covered by also including the DJ business that the number belongs to in the (201) area code. In fact, it just ended here at a price that is ludicrous for a phone number but may not be all that bad for a successful business, perhaps.
Don’t remember the song, well here are the lyrics and the song and if you are not carefully will be drilled into your head sometime today. Of course, this performance was a few years after “Jenny” took the world by storm, and the world moved on from matching shirts and socks to matching shirts and shoes. Oh yeah! Though if you were the white T-shirt type and followed this, everyone would point and say you were wearing “grandpa shoes,” as wearing sneakers was cheating. You would have to do loafers or wings.
Hey…
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you’ll think I’m like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I’ve got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don’t change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)Jenny, Jenny you’re the girl for me
You don’t know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before
But I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination
But I was disturbedJenny I’ve got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don’t change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)I got it (I got it), I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
For a good time callJenny don’t change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I’ve got your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)Hey…
Jenny don’t change your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I call your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
For the price of a dime
I can always turn to you
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
As you see, not too much happens. But isn’t that the case of many 80s songs. One may argue that it is not true, that Duran Duran became somehow involved in the French Revolution except with more leather jackets per capita than what existed back then and that John Mellencamp toured the whole US of A, but that is false because it only appeared that way in the MUSIC VIDEO. If you actually sit and listen to the song with no images of the MTV videos in your head, you will agree with me. The counterrevoltionary situations only are merely are open for wide interpretation and the man formerly known as Cougar just said that America is “Something to See, Baby,” and should have been hired for a time share company that enticed people to sign up for a tour rather than actually saying that he danced across the country with his guitar.
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