Comments on: Friday Five: Songs About Answering Machines

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:40:04 +0000

How’d you miss the most prominent recent song that features an answering machine–Toby’s “Crying for Me”??:

I got up and dialed your number
And your voice came on the line
That old familiar message
I heard a thousand times it just said
Sorry that I missed you
Leave a message and god bless
I know you think I’m crazy
But I had to hear your voice again

By: Kazaa

Kazaa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:59:13 +0000

Good List..Thank you for sharing

By: Flitterkid

Flitterkid — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:08:39 +0000

There’s so much more to Tracy Lawrence than his haircut–But I have to agree, Is That a Tear has to rank awfully high on my favorites list too. Please keep them coming Tracy–we can’t get enough. LYL

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:14:54 +0000

“Answering Machine” by the Replacements. How do you say you’re lonely to an answering machine?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:26:19 +0000

Love/loved Tracy Lawrence mullet and all!

By: Mayor JoBob

Mayor JoBob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:54:59 +0000

Tracy Lawrence & his mullet = My hero. Once he got a haircut for “The Coast is Clear” my world fell apart.

By: t.scott

t.scott — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:19:58 +0000

John Schnieder’s “At The Sound of the Tone” was one of his best.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:07:40 +0000

Hah! “Lustrous mullet” got me too and the album cover for I See It Now comes to mind.

Anyway, I offer up the outgoing message left by the man (on something called a code a phone, whatever that is) in Tanya Tucker’s “Soon”.

Soon
I Can’t Talk To You Right Now
Soon
You’ll Hear a Beep and You Know How
To Play This Game
Leave Your Number and Your Name
And I Promise I’ll Call Back
Soon

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:59:04 +0000

one of my favorite Tracy L songs.

In “Goodnight” by Suzy Bogguss from her 1999 self-titled cd, a line in the 3rd verse is “one day it won’t be your voice mail I’m talking to”. I used it in a playlist where every song mentions at least one U.S. city. This song, written by Charlie Black & Dana Hunt, mentions Raleigh, Durham, Atlanta, Macon and Jacksonville. Another of the songs on this list was Tracy L’s “Paint Me a Birmingham”.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:44:21 +0000

…i think no other artist in the history of country music has ever been worse advised when it comes to hairstyle, outfits and postures on his cd-covers than tracy lawrence. someone should write a novelty song about one of nashville’s greatest pranks. it took me quite a while to even touch a record of his – he looked almost unreal. then again, neither blake shelton nor jason michael caroll seem to be blessed with great stylists, either? good songs on your list.