He's on the Phone, the Glossary
"He's on the Phone" is a song by British pop group Saint Etienne in collaboration with French singer-songwriter Étienne Daho, released in October 1995 by Heavenly and MCA as a single from their third compilation album, Too Young to Die (1995).[1]
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74 relations: AllMusic, Arpeggio, Associated Press, Audio time stretching and pitch scaling, Étienne Daho, Íslenski listinn, Bassline, BBC Radio 1, Billboard (magazine), Bob Stanley (musician), Britpop, Burt Bacharach, Conga, Cool Kids of Death, Dance Club Songs, David Holmes (musician), Disco, Diva house, Dotmusic, DV (newspaper), Eurodisco, European Hot 100 Singles, Europop, Expressen, Fill (music), Freaky Trigger, Hard disk recorder, Heavenly Recordings, Hi-NRG, Hug My Soul, Ian Catt, IMDb, James Hamilton (DJ and journalist), James Masterton, Korg Wavestation, Larry Flick, Like a Motorway, London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne, Marc Bolan, MCA Records, Melody Maker, Minimoog, MRC (company), Music & Media, Music Week, NME, Nu-disco, Paul Kelly (film maker), Pete Tong, Pete Wiggs, ... Expand index (24 more) »
- English house music songs
- Heavenly Recordings singles
- Songs about telephones
- Songs written by Bob Stanley (musician)
- Songs written by Pete Wiggs
- Songs written by Sarah Cracknell
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Arpeggio
An arpeggio is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Audio time stretching and pitch scaling
Time stretching is the process of changing the speed or duration of an audio signal without affecting its pitch.
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Étienne Daho
Étienne Daho (born 14 January 1956) is a French singer-songwriter.
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Íslenski listinn
Íslenski listinn is the Icelandic top 20 music chart.
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Bassline
Bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as blues, jazz, funk, dub and electronic, traditional, and classical music, for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).
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BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Bob Stanley (musician)
Bob Stanley (born Robert Andrew Shukman; 25 December 1964) is a British musician, journalist, author, and film producer.
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Britpop
Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness.
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Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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Cool Kids of Death
The Cool Kids of Death is a Polish alternative rock band formed in Łódź in 2001.
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Dance Club Songs
Dance Club Songs was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine.
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David Holmes (musician)
David Holmes (born 25 February 1969) is a Northern Irish musician and composer.
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Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.
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Diva house
Diva house or handbag house is an anthemic subgenre of house music that became most popular in gay clubs during the second half of the 1990s.
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Dotmusic
Dotmusic was a music webzine that existed as a standalone website from 1 June 1995 to December 2003.
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DV (newspaper)
DV (Dagblaðið Vísir) is an online newspaper in Iceland published by Torg ehf.
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Eurodisco
Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.
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European Hot 100 Singles
The European Hot 100 Singles was compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine from March 1984 until December 2010.
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Europop
Europop (also spelled Euro pop) is a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the mid-to-late 1960s and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s.
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Expressen
(The Express) is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden.
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Fill (music)
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Freaky Trigger
Freaky Trigger is an Internet publication and e-zine that focuses on popular culture with topics varying from music to cinema.
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Hard disk recorder
A hard disk recorder (HDR) is a system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video.
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Heavenly Recordings
Heavenly Recordings is a London-based independent record label founded by Jeff Barrett in 1990.
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Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Hug My Soul
"Hug My Soul" is a song by British band Saint Etienne. He's on the Phone and Hug My Soul are Heavenly Recordings singles and songs written by Sarah Cracknell.
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Ian Catt
Ian Catt is a British record producer and multi-instrumentalist associated with several popular indie groups, including Saint Etienne, with whom he has been a touring member.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
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James Hamilton (DJ and journalist)
James Hamilton (25 December 1942 – 17 June 1996) was a British DJ and dance music columnist for Record Mirror, and later for Music Week, where he worked until his death in 1996.
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James Masterton
James Masterton (born 2 September 1973) is a British music critic and columnist, his work focusing on the UK Singles Chart having been an online fixture on various sites since the 1990s.
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Korg Wavestation
The Korg Wavestation is a vector synthesis synthesizer first produced in the early 1990s and later re-released as a software synthesizer in 2004.
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Larry Flick
Larry Flick is an American journalist, former dance music columnist, single reviewer, and Senior Talent Editor for ''Billboard'' magazine, where he worked for 14 years.
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Like a Motorway
"Like a Motorway" is a song by British pop group Saint Etienne. He's on the Phone and Like a Motorway are Heavenly Recordings singles, songs written by Bob Stanley (musician) and songs written by Pete Wiggs.
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London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne
London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne is a compilation album by the English electronic music group Saint Etienne.
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Marc Bolan
Marc Bolan (born Mark Feld; 30 September 1947 – 16 September 1977) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter and poet.
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MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s.
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Melody Maker
Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest.
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Minimoog
The Minimoog is an analog synthesizer first manufactured by Moog Music between 1970 and 1981.
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MRC (company)
MRC II Distribution Company, L.P., doing business as MRC (formerly Media Rights Capital), is an American film and television studio.
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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.
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Music Week
Music Week is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine.
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NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
Nu-disco
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in the late 1970s disco, synthesizer-heavy 1980s European dance music styles, and early 1990s electronic dance music.
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Paul Kelly (film maker)
Paul Kelly (born 23 July 1962 Farnborough, Hampshire) is an English film director, musician, photographer and designer.
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Pete Tong
Peter Michael Tong (born 30 July 1960) is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1.
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Pete Wiggs
Peter Stewart Wiggs (born 15 May 1966) is an English musician and DJ from Reigate, Surrey.
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Peter Purves
Peter John Purves (born 10 February 1939) is an English television presenter and actor, best known for presenting the children's television programme Blue Peter for 11 years during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Record Mirror
Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.
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Reserection
Reserection is an extended play (EP) by English alternative dance band Saint Etienne and French singer Étienne Daho, under the collective name St.
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Roland JD-800
The Roland JD-800 is a digital synthesizer that was manufactured between 1991 and 1996.
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Roland Juno-106
The Roland Juno-106 is a synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in February 1984.
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Roland TR-909
The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer, commonly known as the 909, is a drum machine introduced by Roland Corporation in 1983, succeeding the TR-808.
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Roland U-20
The Roland U-20 is a PCM-sample synthesizer, released by Roland in 1989.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Saint Etienne (band)
Saint Etienne is an English band from Greater London, formed in 1990.
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Sarah Cracknell
Sarah Jane Cracknell (born 12 April 1965) is an English singer-songwriter and lead singer of the electronic music band Saint Etienne.
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Snare drum
The snare drum (or side drum) is a percussion instrument that produces a sharp staccato sound when the head is struck with a drum stick, due to the use of a series of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin.
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Sound on Sound
Sound on Sound is a monthly music technology magazine.
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Star Academy (French TV series)
Star Academy is a French reality singing competition produced by Endemol France.
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Steve Rodway
Steve Rodway (born in Cambridgeshire), also known under the alias Motiv 8 or Motiv8, is a British electronic dance music producer, songwriter, remixer and sound engineer.
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Sylvie (song)
"Sylvie" is a 1998 song written and performed by British pop group Saint Etienne and released as the first single from their fourth album, Good Humor (1998). He's on the Phone and Sylvie (song) are songs written by Bob Stanley (musician), songs written by Pete Wiggs and songs written by Sarah Cracknell.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Taylor Parkes
Taylor Parkes (born 30 April 1972) is a British journalist.
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Television Personalities
The Television Personalities are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 by London singer-songwriter Dan Treacy.
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The Daily News (Kentucky)
The Daily News is a daily-except-Saturday newspaper based in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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Too Young to Die: Singles 1990–1995
Too Young to Die – Singles 1990–1995 is a compilation album by English indie dance band Saint Etienne released on 13 November, 1995, collecting the group's singles spanning the period of 1990 to 1995.
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Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Underworld (band)
Underworld are a British electronic music group formed in 1987 in Cardiff, Wales and the principal collaborative project of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith.
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See also
English house music songs
- (I Wanna Give You) Devotion
- 3 a.m. Eternal
- Ain't That a Lot of Love
- America (I Love America)
- Anthem (N-Joi song)
- Beat Dis
- Excuses (Mentis song)
- Garage Palace
- Hallucinate (song)
- He's on the Phone
- I'm Alive (Stretch & Vern song)
- It Just Won't Do
- Just a Groove
- King (Years & Years song)
- Lazy (X-Press 2 song)
- Lola's Theme
- Magic Carpet Ride (Mighty Dub Katz song)
- Missing (Everything but the Girl song)
- New York City Boy
- Offshore (song)
- Pacific State (song)
- Passion (Gat Decor song)
- Pump Up the Volume (song)
- Renegade Master
- Spotlight (Jessie Ware song)
- The Only Way Is Up
- The Sound (The 1975 song)
- Trippin' (Oris Jay song)
- Trippin' on Sunshine
- Where Are You? (Imaani song)
- Where Love Lives
- Whitney Joins the JAMs
- You Got the Love
- You Want Me
Heavenly Recordings singles
- 4 AM (Cherry Ghost song)
- Anywhere (Beth Orton song)
- Avenue (song)
- Burnt Out Car
- Catch the Sun
- Caught by the River
- Central Reservation (song)
- Gamma Knife (song)
- He's on the Phone
- Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)
- Hobart Paving
- Hug My Soul
- Join Our Club
- Kingdom of Rust (song)
- Kiss and Make Up (Saint Etienne song)
- Like a Motorway
- Livin' It Up (Northern Uproar song)
- Mathematics (Cherry Ghost song)
- Method of Modern Love (Saint Etienne song)
- Motown Junk
- Nothing Can Stop Us (song)
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart
- Pale Movie
- People Help the People
- Pounding (song)
- Rattlesnake (King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard song)
- Ride (The Vines song)
- She Cries Your Name
- Snowden (song)
- Someone's Daughter
- The Cedar Room
- The Man Who Told Everything
- There Goes the Fear
- Thinking About Tomorrow
- Touch Me with Your Love
- Weekender (Flowered Up song)
- Who Do You Think You Are (Candlewick Green song)
- Winter Hill (song)
- Xmas 93
- You're in a Bad Way
Songs about telephones
- Bananaphone
- Calling America
- He's on the Phone
- Hung Up
- John Prine (album)
- Mini-Moni Telephone! Rin Rin Rin / Mini-Moni Bus Guide
- Mr. Telephone Man
- My Telephone
- No Phone
- Payphone (song)
- Ring Ring (ABBA song)
- Ring a Ding Dong
- Speakerphone (song)
- Spiderwebs (song)
- Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
- Telemóveis
- Telephone (song)
- The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
- Touch-Tone Telephone
- Two for the Price of One (ABBA song)
- Wichita Lineman
- Wrong Number (George Jones song)
- You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Songs written by Bob Stanley (musician)
- Avenue (song)
- Burnt Out Car
- He's on the Phone
- Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)
- Hobart Paving
- Join Our Club
- Like a Motorway
- Nothing Can Stop Us (song)
- One Goodbye in Ten
- Pale Movie
- Stars Above Us
- Sylvie (song)
- Tell Me Why (The Riddle)
- The Bad Photographer
- Xmas 93
- You're in a Bad Way
Songs written by Pete Wiggs
- Avenue (song)
- Burnt Out Car
- He's on the Phone
- Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)
- Hobart Paving
- Join Our Club
- Like a Motorway
- Nothing Can Stop Us (song)
- One Goodbye in Ten
- Pale Movie
- Stars Above Us
- Sylvie (song)
- Tell Me Why (The Riddle)
- The Bad Photographer
- Xmas 93
- You're in a Bad Way
Songs written by Sarah Cracknell
- 435 (song)
- Avenue (song)
- He's on the Phone
- Heart Failed (In the Back of a Taxi)
- Hug My Soul
- Stars Above Us
- Sylvie (song)
- Tell Me Why (The Riddle)
- The Bad Photographer
- You're in a Bad Way
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He's_on_the_Phone
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