Artist: Tom T. Hall
Year Released: 1971
Lyrical relic: Phone book
A mammoth of a publication, the phone book was well used in its day both as a vital source of contact information, as well as a makeshift booster seat for the vertically challenged! It existed in the form of “White pages” for residential listings and Yellow Pages for business listings. The Yellow Pages have managed to get the advertising dollars to still get published and distributed to ambivilent residents (at least where I live), but the White pages were fated to the relics of history.
The first phone book is believed to have been published in February 1878, less than two years after the invention of the phone. It was for New Haven Connecticut, home of the first commercially available phone service, and it listed 50 names (no numbers). It was not technically a book, just a sheet of paper. The first “book” came out later that year in November and had grown to include 391 names. A copy of this book sold at auction in 2008 for $170,500 USD.
Now we need to talk about Shirley, because I almost considered making her the lyrical relic. When was the last time you met a kid name Shirley? Not trending among popular names for new humans. There were a scant 104 new Shirleys born in the US in 2021, according to the most recent available data on Social Security card applications. The name had its heyday in 1935 , with 42,357 new Shirleys registered (the second most popular name, after Mary). Not so coincidentally, 1935 was the year that child actor Shirley Temple became Hollywood’s top box-office attraction.
When Tulsa Telephone Book was released in 1971, Shirley ranked #193 in the list of baby names.
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