tune..brr brr busy line.was it from an advert?

[foxyminx]

There`s a tune I`ve remembered where a woman was singing, ..Called this number I got a brr brr brr brr busy line`
is it from a BT ad?
Its bugging me!

[kjen]

it was used for an advert but im not sure...loved the song though

BUSY LINE
(Semos / Stanton)
Rose Murphy


I put a nickel in the telephone, dialled my baby’s number
Got a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line
Each time I tried I got a busy tone
Not my baby’s number
Just a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line

Called his uncle in Jamaica
Left a message with the baker
Even checked the number in the telephone book
Got so awfully, awfully worried
To my baby’s house I hurried
When I looked inside, the phone was off the hook

And as I ^walked up to my baby - then
I got my baby’s number
He was busy in the parlour doing fine
Busy kissing someone else
While I was keeping busy
Getting a brrr, brrr, brrr, brrr, busy line^^

[DAC4]

A really old thread I know, but that song was used as the theme music to sitcom The Hello Girls in 1996.

[George 1978]

I know that the song had appeared in an advert - I believe that it was shot in monochrome even though it was made in the 1990s, and it featured a woman who was supposedly singing the tune. I have a feeling that it was for one of those early mobile phone companies such as Cellnet or Vodaphone when mobile phones still resembled house bricks, although by default one would assume that it was for BT. Thinking about it, I am almost certain that it wasn't for BT but another company.

[LilacLobster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCH8...xpbmUgYWR2ZXJ0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6kw...YnVzeWxpbmU%3D

Pretty sure this thread is now older than the ads were when the thread was created!

[George 1978]

So, I was correct that it was for Cellnet and not BT, although for some reason I thought that the advert was a parody of a 1950s advert with some stereotypical housewife singing the aformentioned song.

I think that I was probably thinking of the Mercury Communications advert from around 1992 with the Harry Enfield characters Mr Cholmondley-Warner and Mr Grayson doing a 1950s parody advert (having to go on Google to make sure that the "Cholmondley" bit in "Cholmondley-Warner" was spelt correctly).

And I think that it was spelt "Vodafone" as well with an F and not a PH.