“867-5309/JENNY”
TOMMY TUTONE is best known for the 1982 hit “867-5309/Jenny”, which peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song became so popular that people in the United States to this day dial this telephone number and ask for Jenny as a prank. Regarding the famous number, “We had people threatening to sue us. It was the Buffalo Chief of Police’s daughter’s number in New York,” said frontman Tommy Heath. Although the band is frequently remembered as a one-hit wonder, it had another top-40 hit on the Hot 100 with “Angel Say No” in 1980, predating “Jenny” by a couple of years.
