Good one. I always noticed how this echoed the numbers in The Marvelettes’ hit song of several years earlier, “Beechwood 4-5789.”
In 1966, Wilson Pickett recorded the song “634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)” written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper. ‘Beechwood’ as dialed on a telephone would equal BE, or 23, making the number 234-5789 (only one number difference from the Pickett song). Other than numbers, though, the songs have no similarities, musically or lyrically.
The earlier song was written by Smokey Robinson and Mickey Stevenson.
April 8th, 2017 at 6:40 am
Good one. I always noticed how this echoed the numbers in The Marvelettes’ hit song of several years earlier, “Beechwood 4-5789.”
In 1966, Wilson Pickett recorded the song “634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)” written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper. ‘Beechwood’ as dialed on a telephone would equal BE, or 23, making the number 234-5789 (only one number difference from the Pickett song). Other than numbers, though, the songs have no similarities, musically or lyrically.
The earlier song was written by Smokey Robinson and Mickey Stevenson.
April 8th, 2017 at 11:32 am
Nothing that had occurred to me before. Very strange, but hardly a coincidence, I don’t think.