Suzanne Fellini, ‘Love on the Phone’ (1980)

Extolling the virtues of dial-up dalliances, Suzanne Fellini recorded perhaps the most relevant and practical of the songs for a quarantine playlist. “It’s so hard when I’m feeling on fire/and all I can hold is the telephone wire,” yelps the auteur as a hard-charging rock combo, featuring Sid McGinnis (also later of Letterman’s house band), create a ruckus around her. Toni Basil’s Mickey may have beat it by a year, but this insidiously hookey, aggressively silly earworm is nearly as memorable.