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To: Xenalyte
Do you know the bizarre real-life story behind that song???

Well, I don't - and if you do - post it here.

40 posted on 03/15/2005 7:15:26 PM PST by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
There's the story that the number belonged to Jenny, a band member's ex-girlfriend, and that he wrote the song to get back at her for dumping him. She supposedly got a restraining order taken out against him and won a court order to have the song pulled from the airwaves for awhile.

Other explanations have her becoming angry with him and changing her number (which, ironically, is what the song begged her not to do). In another flavor, the band is sued by a sheriff who had both a daughter named Jenny and the notorious 867-5309 as his home number.
49 posted on 03/15/2005 7:18:40 PM PST by Xenalyte (I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
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