I'm looking for a songe made entirely of telephone dial tones. I heard
it about 20 years ago. It may be part of something else.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 12 Aug 2005 14:34 PDT

Is this it?

"Telephone Line / Electric Light Orchestra / 1976 (Doug Kelly)
The only song featuring the sound of telephone dialing tones triggered
by a blue box."

http://songsofnote.hotdog.com.mx/main.aspx

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Clarification of Question by neknarf-ga on 12 Aug 2005 15:23 PDT

No, this is not it ... I have the album of ELO with this song on it.

I can distinctly remember a sequence of notes. If only there were a
way to get it from my head into the PC.
I cannot read/write notes, but I believe it's something like :
C-E-C-E-C-C where the second C is short and there is a gap between the
last two C's. It may be other notes than C and E, but there is a low
note and a high note.
The notes are actual recordings from existing telephone systems in the
80's. I believe that they we're from the English UK system.

I'm not sure if it is really a song. Maybe it was just a short jingle
or so. (Maybe from a DJ on one of our shows on Hilversum 3 in The
Netherlands)

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 12 Aug 2005 17:05 PDT

How about "The Telephone Call" by Kraftwerk?

"Electric Cafe" [click on "The Telephone Call" for a sample]
MSN Music
http://music.msn.com/album/?album=10014213

If this is correct, please let me know so that I may post it as an answer.

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Clarification of Question by neknarf-ga on 12 Aug 2005 23:28 PDT

Nope, sorry. Have that album too. 
What I remember is made entirely out of telephone sounds. No synthesizer added.
I think I remember it being of Swiss origin, but that memory is not reliable.

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 13 Aug 2005 10:27 PDT

I've found the Penguin Cafe Orchestra track to which markm0's comment
likely refers:

"Telephone and Rubber Band"
Yahoo! Audio Search
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT000820981&p=Telephone+and+Rubber+Band&n=100

Is the correct song?

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Clarification of Question by neknarf-ga on 13 Aug 2005 23:09 PDT

Jackpot !!!!! The sample shows exactly the part I'm looking for. I
didn't remember the violins though.

Thanks,
Peter

Hello neknarf,

To make the answer official, here again is the link to the song:

"Telephone and Rubber Band"
Yahoo! Audio Search
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?_&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&sngid=XXXXXXT000820981&p=Telephone+and+Rubber+Band&n=100

- justaskscott


Search strategy --

Searched on Google for:

"penguin cafe orchestra" telephone

[Thanks to markm0 for the assist!]

This is the first time I used Google Answers ... I'm very pleased.

I think the song is written by the Penguin cafe orchestra which
specilised in repeating layers of music.  I can't rememer exactly but
the track may have been called calling from home. Hope this helps.