Can you sing 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone?

867-5309/Jenny is the most famous phone number in rock, and the stored data reads it in the upper octave: a researched C4 to D5 range where the Tommy Tutone hook rings in treble-staff territory. The melody is power-pop directness itself, a chanted verse building to a chorus everyone in the bar has memorized since 1981.

The deciding moment is the chorus chant, where the numeric hook repeats at the top of the stored span and has to punch with rock urgency every single time: this is a song audiences sing with you, and flagging energy on the third chorus is a public event. The technique is repeated-note stamina with bright, forward placement, treating each digit of the hook like a snare hit. As stored, altos, mezzos, and sopranos all fit the range outright. Tenors face five semitones of stored ceiling and traditionally solve it the rock way, taking the melody in their own octave, where it sits in prime shout-along territory; baritones follow the same custom with a further two or three semitones of downward adjustment for comfort.

Practice cue: sing the hook eight times against a driving eighth-note air-guitar strum. Consistency across all eight is the entire job description.

Written from this song's researched range on file, C4 to D5 (14 semitones). July 2026.