2:49
single, 1952
Written by Jimmy Ballard and Charles Kanter
This is a laid-back honky-tonk, the dim shores of rockabilly just barely visible during the fiddle and guitar solos. It's a winking double-entendre song lyrically, risqué-for-the-time in the same way as "I'm Going To Give It To Mary With Love." As in that droll ditty, this one hints at some sexual mystery ("Oh, she's got something I've always wanted / And I have tried so hard to get / But every time I ask her for it / All she can say is 'Please not yet"'"), only to reveal the quotidian punchline at the end: it's her telephone number.
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