{"id":69138,"date":"2026-03-17T04:57:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/867-5309-number-from-1980s-hit-song-jenny-now-routes-callers-to-cancer-support\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:57:49","slug":"867-5309-number-from-1980s-hit-song-jenny-now-routes-callers-to-cancer-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/867-5309-number-from-1980s-hit-song-jenny-now-routes-callers-to-cancer-support\/","title":{"rendered":"867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Music\u2019s most famous number is being repurposed to offer resources for patients and caregivers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The telephone number immortalized in the enduring Tommy Tutone hit song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=axLRUszuu9I\">867-5309\/Jenny<\/a> has started connecting callers to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/cancer\">cancer<\/a> support line \u2013 as one ad touting the news says it was time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\">music<\/a>\u2019s most famous digits \u201cdid some good\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer Support Community (CSC)\u2019s Instagram page announced the campaign with a series of posts on Monday alluding to the song about a guy who nervously ponders calling the phone number of a woman named Jenny, which is scrawled on a bathroom wall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/17\/867-5309-jenny-tommy-tutone-cancer-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music\u2019s most famous number is being repurposed to offer resources for patients and caregivers Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The telephone number immortalized in the enduring Tommy Tutone hit song 867-5309\/Jenny has started connecting callers to a cancer support line \u2013 as one ad touting &#8230; <a title=\"867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/867-5309-number-from-1980s-hit-song-jenny-now-routes-callers-to-cancer-support\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}