Talk:Linda Laurie

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Linda Laurie article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Women in Music

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women in Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women in MusicWikipedia:WikiProject Women in MusicTemplate:WikiProject Women in MusicWomen in music
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Biography: Musicians

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians.
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Bizarre non-sequiturs

The article has a line that reads "and bizarre non-sequiturs like, "We haven't got a color telephone."

This is not a non-sequitur at all. The lyrics of the song are:

It's not that I didn't want to have a party at my house. I couldn't. My mommy wouldn't let me. She's ashamed. We haven't got a color telephone.

Color telephones were introduced in the mid 1950s. Prior to that date all phones were black (and provided by your local telephone company on a leased basis).

In order to provide more choice and to fight charges of being a monopoly, phones styles were offered to the public. Pitched as fashion accessories instead of utilitarian appliances, the choices were aimed primarily at women, who were more likely to go for yellow, red, green or beige color phones. The introduction of the 'Princess Phone' in the late fifties further cemented this connection.

So not having a color phone in 1958 (when the song in question was released) would indeed make a lot of women subject to some degree of social scorn 75.82.16.45 (talk) 22:49, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]