Mari Wilson -"Telephone Man" Meri Wilson was an American singer who specialized in 'double-entendre' novelty songs. In the 1970s she worked as a singer and model and achieved fame in 1977 after she recorded a song entitled 'Telephone Man', which was filled with suggestive lyrics and her breathy squealing voice. The song became a surprise hit single, climbing the UK Singles Chart to number 6, spending ten weeks in the listings, as well as making it to number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. She later recorded other novelty songs, including 'Dick The D.J.' and this song, 'Peter The Meter Reader', was released in 1980 on the Pye label in the UK but didn't make the charts. Her last project was a 2001 update of her famous hit which was entitled, 'Internet Man'. Sadly, she died in 2002, at the age of 53.
