Can you still have the phone number 867-5309?

Here's the legacy of the world's most famous phone number.

Produced by Matt Beat.

Sources/further reading:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/867-5309-jenny/
https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/867-5309-jenny-in-all-us-and-canadian-area-codes/
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/entertainment/local/2012/04/30/local-history-there-is-no/10606260007/
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/nyregion/01towns.html

867-5309

It’s a phone number we all remember due to the classic 1981 song 867-5309/Jenny by the band Tommy Tutone. But did you know that for DECADES after it became a hit, real people who actually had that phone number constantly had people calling them? And yes, most of the people asked for Jenny. After all, Jenny, they had your number.

Anyway, this became such a nuisance for so many people with this actual phone number that they called their phone companies to CHANGE their number. By the late 1990s, most people had gotten rid of their 867-5309 phone number. However, around the same time, others decided to specifically request that number to promote their business.

Today, there are approximately 92 867-5309s still in use, and most of them are businesses. Many are also ads and yep, many are still available if you want 867-5309 to be YOUR new phone number.

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