Artist	Song
Blondie	Hanging on the Telephone
The Pretenders	The Phone Call
Black 47	Oh, Maureen
Jim Croce	Operator
Johnny Rivers	Memphis, Tennessee
Bob Dylan, The Band	Long Distance Operator
Joan Baez	Diamonds and Rust
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show	Sylvia's Mother
Catch 22	San Francisco Payphone
M2M	Payphone
Primitive Radio Gods	Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in my Hand
Red House Painters	Japanese to English
The New Amsterdams	Stay on the Phone
The Vines	Highly Evolved
Lou Reed	New York Telephone Conversation
Tom Waits	Telephone Call from Istanbul
Bruce Springsteen	Open All Night
Robert Cray	Phone Booth
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes	Long Distance
Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman	Loan me a Dime

Comment:

The Payphone in the Hall

Jane-Margaret Norris blows her saxophone
And doesn't hear me call her name sometimes
Inside the unswept stairwell where I climb
Off glassy walls of artificial stone
Her tenor blues swing to the telephone
Receiver's syncopation. It's no crime
I know -- she likes oolong, the dark sublime
And older men. I'd rather be alone
Than ask -- it's me she asks to shave
Her neck or rub her horny waitress feet
To tell her tales of princes, rakes and knaves
While she sips gin on fresh and coarsened sheets
And when she leaves for good and all, she'll take
The only piece of this she couldn't make

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