Beechwood 4-5789
| "Beechwood 4-5789" | ||||
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| Single by the Marvelettes | ||||
| from the album Playboy | ||||
| B-side | "Someday, Someway" | |||
| Released | July 11, 1962 | |||
| Recorded | May 19, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll, soul, doo-wop, R&B | |||
| Length | 2:13 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, George Gordy | |||
| Producer(s) | William "Mickey" Stevenson | |||
| The Marvelettes singles chronology | ||||
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"Beechwood 4-5789" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and George Gordy. It was a 1962 hit single for the Motown girl group the Marvelettes on Motown's Tamla subsidiary record label. The song became a hit again when it was covered by the pop duo the Carpenters in 1982.
The song's title is derived from the sequence 234–5789 and the now-defunct use of telephone exchange names in telephone numbers. The first two letters of the exchange "Beechwood" (BE) are substituted to the numbers 2 and 3 on a rotary dial, and then joined to the remaining numbers. In the case of this title, the remaining numbers are 4–5789, together forming the full telephone number of 234–5789.