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New Edition - "Mr. Telephone Man"
from the album New Edition (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day is by the R&B "boy" band New Edition, whose self-title second album gave them their American pop breakthrough with the top-5 hit "Cool It Now". For its follow-up the quintet released "Mr. Telephone Man", a song written and produced by hitmaker and honorary "Ghostbuster" Ray Parker Jr....

"Mr. Telephone Man" became the group's second top-40 pop hit in Febuary of 1985, while topping the soul chart for three weeks. Across the pond in England, the single did better than "Cool It Now", reaching #19, as well as making the top-40 in Canada, New Zealand, and Ireland.

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Since the audio above is kind of crappy (somehow VEVO blocks their official clip here in the US), here's the audio of such a cool song...

...and here's the five on American Bandstand...


The song was originally recorded by Jamaican artist Junior Tucker in 1983..

Female pop vocal group Dream covered the song on their debut set in 2001..

Up tomorrow: a 2 Tone duo show their softer side.