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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost songs about or mention operators
also post the last year you spoke to an operator, 1990 for me.
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Post songs about or mention operators (Original Post)
Tabasco_Dave
Aug 2013
OP
"Memphis" and "Promised Land" don't use the word operator, but they do mention "Information."nt
raccoon
Aug 2013
#7
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. No idea when I last spoke to an actual operator...
PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)2. Smove operator
I haven't talked to an operator since like 1981.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. Operator
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)13. RIP Pigpen.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)4. Operator
rug
(82,333 posts)5. Sylvia's Mother
nolabear
(41,960 posts)11. Oh, Sweet Jesus...
I remember that one.
walkerbait41
(302 posts)15. Yes on Sylvia`s Mother
newcriminal
(2,190 posts)16. He has played this damn song at least 15 times today!
I think my ears are bleeding.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)6. Eddy Raven's "Operator, Operator"...
raccoon
(31,110 posts)7. "Memphis" and "Promised Land" don't use the word operator, but they do mention "Information."nt
Glorfindel
(9,727 posts)8. Manhattan Transfer "Operator"
I probably last spoke to an operator in the early 90's...
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)9. Pete Shelley's "Telephone Operator"...
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)10. "Operator" by Gladys Knight and the Pips from 1962...
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)12. Hey Operator - Coney Hatch
a good Canadian Rock & Roll band from the 80's. I saw them open for Judas Priest on the Screaming For Vengeance tour.
Iggo
(47,551 posts)14. Not about an operator, doesn't mention one, but he does talk to one in the third verse.
Does that count?
csziggy
(34,136 posts)17. Not a song, but the classic operator
Orrex
(63,203 posts)18. Wishing on Telstar by Susanna Hoffs
Top that for sub-mediocre early 90s pop.