Meri Wilson - Telephone Man • TopPop

Опубликовано 26 апреля 2018, 16:00

Meri Wilson Edgmon (June 15, 1949 – December 28, 2002), known professionally as Meri Wilson, was an American model and singer-songwriter, best known for singing double entendre novelty songs. She was born in Nagoya, Japan, at a United States military base, but raised in Marietta, Georgia, USA.

'Telephone man' was a novelty song about the story of a woman and her amorous adventures with her telephone technician, filled with suggestive lyrics and her breathy squealing voice.

The song became a surprise hit single, climbing the UK Singles Chart to #6,[1] spending ten weeks in the listings, as well as making it to #18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

This Toppop recording was first broadcast on 30 August 1977

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AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988.

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TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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