TELEPHONE MAN
(M. Wilson)
Meri Wilson - 1977


I rented my apartment on a Monday at one
Singin' doo-lolly-lolly, shakey-bum, shakey-bum
Started movin' in it on a Tuesday at two
Singin' doo-lolly-lolly, shakey-doo, shakey-doo
Wednesday at three I called the phone company, singin':
"Hey baby, put a phone in for me"
Thursday at four he came a-knockin' at my door, singin':

"Hey baby, I'm your telephone man
You just show me where you want it and I'll put it where I can
I can put it in the bedroom
I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom
I can hang it on the wall
You can have it with a buzz
You can have it with a ring
And if you really want it
You can have a ding-a-ling
Because, hey baby, I'm your telephone man"

Can you believe that? And then he says....

"Now when other fellahs call ya tell 'em how it all began"

Well... can you imagine?

My heart began a-thumpin'
And my mind began to fly
And I knew I wasn't dealing
With no ordinary guy
So while he was a-talkin'
I was thinking up my plan
Then my fingers did the walkin'
On the telephone man

Singin' hey-lolly-lolly
Hey-lolly-lolly
Hey-lolly-lolly
Get it anyway you can
Right... Ha, ha, ha... So...

I got it in the bedroom
And I got it in the hall
And I got it in the bathroom
And he hung it on the wall
I got it with a buzz
And I got it with a ring
And when he told me what my number was I got a ding-a-ling


Singin' hey-lolly-lolly
Hey-lolly-lolly
Hey-lolly-lolly
Just a-doin' my thing

Ha, ha... I never did anything like this before...

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"Telewest has announced that customers are continuing to abandon their cable TV service, while at the same time delivering the news that it hopes to have financial restructuring complete by early next year.

Subscriptions in the three months leading to September fell by five per cent, but this trend was reversed in October. "

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"The Register reports that during the summer, 39,000 new customers subscribed to Telewest broadband taking the cable company's overall subscriber base to 216,000 at the end of September.

Around one in ten of Telewest subscribers opted for the ISPs 1Mb service which was launched in June, with the remainder connected to its 512Kb service.

Unlike NTL, Telewest says all of its broadband subscribers receive connection speeds in excess of 500Kb/s.

That said, the number of punters leaving the service -or "churn", in industry argot - rose marginally in the past quarter to 11.7 per cent from 9.5 per cent. In total, Telewest has more than half a million Internet customers - with four out of ten of those opting for broadband.

The cableco also claims that where people have a choice between cable broadband and ADSL, eight out of ten opt for the cable service.

In a statement Gavin Patterson, MD, consumer division, said: "We are continuing to demonstrate our broadband leadership, with eight out of ten consumers opting for cable over ADSL where the technologies compete head to head.

"Our blueyonder broadband internet service is the real McCoy at 512 kb/s and indeed, one in ten of our customers now enjoys twenty times the speed of dial-up with 1 Mb/s.

"And with our figures we're not talking about wholesale, retail or resale, what you see is what you get - 235,000 households getting end to end broadband internet from one provider," he said.

Total turnover for the whole of the Telewest group for the nine months to the end of September grew four per cent to £1.01bn, up from £973m during the same period last year.

According to the report however, BTopenworld is not far behind Telewest with a substantial 213,000 broadband subscriber base at the end of September, so it may not be long before the telco is overtaking its cable rival. "

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