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(NYT34) RYE BROOK, N.Y. -- Jan. 31, 2009 -- EBAY-TELEPHONE-NUMBER -- Spencer Potter in Rye Brook, N.Y., in January 2009. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming about thieves on Wall Street, bad weather and that football game to bring you this important announcement about Potter's decision to sell his telephone number on eBay, the song that inspired him and the half-life of pop culture fame. The phone number is (201) 867-5309. The song is "867-5309/Jenny." The half-life business you have to figure out on your own.
(NYT34) RYE BROOK, N.Y. — Jan. 31, 2009 — EBAY-TELEPHONE-NUMBER — Spencer Potter in Rye Brook, N.Y., in January 2009. We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming about thieves on Wall Street, bad weather and that football game to bring you this important announcement about Potter’s decision to sell his telephone number on eBay, the song that inspired him and the half-life of pop culture fame. The phone number is (201) 867-5309. The song is “867-5309/Jenny.” The half-life business you have to figure out on your own.
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WEEHAWKEN, N.J. — After five years fielding thousands of calls to one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most celebrated phone numbers, disc jockey Spencer Potter is hanging up on Jenny. Her seven digits are familiar to anyone who paid attention to pop music in the early 1980s: 867-5309, immortalized by the band Tommy Tutone.

Potter and his roommates requested the number on a lark for their home phone in northern New Jersey. They got it, along with about 30 to 40 calls a day. The 28-year-old Potter says he’s selling his business, A Blast Entertainment, and moving to New York. The business and the phone number are for sale on eBay, where the high bid was about $4,000 by Sunday afternoon. The Associated Press

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