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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Jenny I've got your number/I need to make you mine/Jenny don't change your number..."'']]
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4	Tommy Tutone is a UsefulNotes/{{California}} pop band [[OneHitWonder best known]] for their 1981 song "867-5309/Jenny". The band was formed by Tommy Heath and Jim Keller in the late 1970s, and they released three albums in the early 1980s. The band released two more albums in TheNineties, and their latest single was released in 2017.
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6	TropeNamer and TropeMaker for JennysNumber.
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8	!!Studio discography:
9	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Tommy Tutone]]'' (1980)
10	* ''Tommy Tutone-2'' (1981)
11	* ''National Emotion'' (1983)
12	* ''Nervous Love'' (1994)
13	* ''Tutone.rtf'' (1998)
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16	!! Tropes applying to Tommy Tutone's work:
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18	* ArcNumber: 867-5309 is Jenny's number, and in the music video 8675309 turns out to be her lover's prison number.
19	* TheBandMinusTheFace: {{Inverted\|Trope}}. Tommy Heath is the only original band member on the albums from the 90s.
20	* BathroomStallGraffiti: Jenny's name and number is written is on a bathroom wall. In the music video, however, she gives it to him at a bar.
21	* BreakUpSong: "Not Say Goodbye" is about a guy who pleas for his ex-lover to at least say goodbye before leaving him.
22	* FreudianCouch: In the music video for "867-5309/Jenny", the person who gets Jenny's number lies down on a couch talking to a therapist with a picture of UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud in the background.
23	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Zig-zagged. Jim Keller and Tommy Heath have stated that "867-5309/Jenny" is based on an actual girl named Jenny who actually did have the phone number 867-5309. However, the songwriter Alex Call says he just made up the phone number and name for the song.
24	* RepurposedPopSong: "867-5309/Jenny" is sometimes used as a PhoneNumberJingle by those businesses fortunate (or quick) enough to snag the number. Probably the best-known example of this is Benjamin Franklin plumbing services, which actually has a national 1-800 number.
25	-->Benny's a punctual plumber, get me that Benny on the line. 866, that's his prefix, then 867-5309
26	* SpellingSong: The chorus of "867-5309/Jenny" is in the same vein of a spelling song.
27	* StalkerWithACrush: Jenny's lover in the music video, who gets arrested for stalking.
28	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: "867-5309/Jenny" follows "you're the girl for me" with "you make me so ''happy''". Given the stalkerrific nature of the song, one would normally have expected a more lascivious word.
29	* TelephoneSong: "867-5309/Jenny"
30	* VanityLicensePlate: Used on the covers of their albums ''Tommy Tutone'' and ''Tommy Tutone 2''. TOMMY acts as the plate's state, and either TUTONE or TUTONE-2 is the vanity message.
31	* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: JennysNumber gives the phone number with the exchange-number combination of 867-5309, but it doesn't reference an area code or a country code. Meaning that "Jenny" could be in ''any'' country (the US, Canada, many Caribbean countries, or a US territory such as Guam) that uses that phone number format. There's no telling ''which'' town or city, county, state, province, or country she's in from the number, though.

Context Music / TommyTutone