Mr. Telephone Man

Album: New Edition (1984)
Charted: 19 12
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  • Mr. Telephone man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number
    I get a click every time
    Mr. Telephone Man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number
    I get a click every time

    When I dial 611 Computer Service
    She said "Hello may I help you, please?"
    I told her something must be wrong with my phone
    'Cause my baby wouldn't hang up on me

    Mr. Telephone Man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time

    Mr. Telephone Man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time

    She let the phone ring twenty times before she answered
    Let me tell you what happened then
    A minute later I got the operator
    Saying "please hang up and place your call again"

    Mr. Telephone man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number
    I get a click every time
    Mr. Telephone Man
    Something's wrong with my line
    I thought I dialed her number
    But I get a click every time

    Some strange man is on the telephone
    He keeps telling me my baby ain't home
    She got no party line
    This situation's blowing my mind
    Oh, I just can't take this anymore

    "Please operator
    See what you can do
    I dialed the right number
    But I still couldn't get through
    Could you just check the line
    Just one more time, if you can
    I'm pretty sure her phone wouldn't be answered by no man"

    Mr. Telephone Man
    There's something wrong with my line
    When I dial my baby's number I get a click every time

    Mr. Telephone Man
    Something's wrong with my line
    I'm trying to dial her number
    But I get a click every time

    Must be a bad connection
    I give her my love and affection
    I just can't take this no more
    This situation's blowing my mind (blowing my mind)
    Can't get my baby on the line

    I tried dialing information (Mr. Telephone Man)
    I can't get no cooperation (Mr. Telephone Man)
    Her sister's on the phone telling me my baby ain't at home
    Come on baby, I just can't take it no more

    Help me out
    Please Mr. Telephone Man
    Help me out
    Please Mr. Telephone Man Writer/s: Ray Erskine Jr. Parker
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Hipgnosis Songs Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sentric Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn February 16, 1985, the New Edition performed "Mr. Telephone Man" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #15 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the following week it peaked at #12 {for 2 weeks} and it spent sixteen weeks on the Top 100...
    And on January 27th, 1985 it reached #1 {for 3 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart...
    Between 1983 and 2004 the Boston group had twenty-four records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, sixteen made the Top 10 with five reaching #1*, besides "Mr. Telephone Man", their four other #1 records were "Candy Girl" for 1 week in 1983, "Cool It Now" for 1 week in 1984, "Can You Stand The Rain" for 2 weeks in 1989, and "Hit Me Off" for 3 weeks in 1996...
    * They just missed having two more #1 records when both "Count Me Out" {1985} and "If It Isn't Love" {1988} peaked at #2.
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