"Telephone Line" was part of the band's sixth album, A New World Record, when they were becoming known for a stream of hits like "Living Thing" and "Mr. Blue Sky." Multi-instrumentalist Jeff Lynne was known for developing unique sounds to create ear-tantalizing tracks, with the 1977 hit landing at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also became a success across the pond in Europe, landing at No. 8 on the UK chart.
"To get the sound on the beginning, you know, the American telephone sound, we phoned from England to America to a number that we know nobody would be at, to just listen to it for a while. On the Moog, we recreated the sound exactly by tuning the oscillators to the same notes as the ringing of the phone," said Lynne once.
"I sound really desperate and lonely on this one, and maybe I was," he told Rolling Stone. "It's about trying to find a girl every night and you just can't get through to her. It was a scenario I thought of, but maybe it was prompted by the fact that I wasn't happy at the time."
"I think everybody’s had an experience where they’ve had a bad telephone call with somebody they care about and the way it gets to you. And I think he captured that," he said.
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