Saturday, April 13, 2019

"Telephone Line"

When I listened to A New World Record yester-day, I also noticed a couple small things in "Telephone Line."

"Pick up" in the lines "I'd tell you ev'rything / If you'd pick up that telephone" is sung to an ascending pair of notes (albeit a small interval:  E F#), musically giving a sense of "pick[ing] up."

"All" in the lines "Don't you realize the things we did, we did / Were all for real, not a dream" is also sung with a melisma (F# A, I think), musically giving a sense of that entirety.