Tommy Tutone

Growing up in Texas, Tommy Heath was influenced by the sounds of The Beatles and Buddy Holly. By the late '70s, Heath had moved to California and, with guitarist Jim Keller, formed the band Tommy Tutone in San Francisco. Despite the musical trends of the time that saw punk and New Wave as the burgeoning musical styles, Heath and Keller drew on the classic sound of power pop for Tommy Tutone.

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The most famous phone number of the '80s - one of the most famous in music or pop culture history for that matter - was undoubtedly the one that the band Tommy Tutone had much of the country singing in 1982..."867-5309" and we all knew to whom it belonged (some of us even tried to reach her). Although it was the group's only major hit song, twenty-five years later, a lot of people could still dial it from memory.

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