Beechwood 4-5789

"Beechwood 4-5789"
Single by the Marvelettes
from the album Playboy
B-side"Someday, Someway"
ReleasedJuly 11, 1962
RecordedMay 19, 1962
GenreRock and roll, soul, doo-wop, R&B
Length2:13
LabelTamla
Songwriter(s)Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, George Gordy
Producer(s)William "Mickey" Stevenson
The Marvelettes singles chronology
"Playboy"
(1962)
"Beechwood 4-5789" / "Someday, Someway"
(1962)
"Strange I Know"
(1962)

"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.