Don’t change that number, firms say
From Times Wire Reports
Tommy Tutone made the phone number 867-5309 famous in the band’s 1982 single.
Now, two companies are battling over the right to use the number, which doesn’t reach the “Jenny” that Tutone sings about, but more practically, plumbers.
Two years ago, Gem Plumbing & Heating of Lincoln, R.I., trademarked the phone number. But Clockwork Home Services, also a plumbing company, uses a toll-free version of 867-5309 in New England.
As for Tommy “Tutone” Heath, he describes the dispute as “ridiculous.”