Telephone directory. A telephone directory, also known as a telephone book, telephone address book, phone book, or the white/yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by name and address to be found. The advent of the Internet and smart phones in the 21st century greatly reduced the need for a paper phone book. Some communities,
Near the very height of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, on March 5, 1966, American popular-music fans made a #1 hit out of a song called âThe Ballad Of The Green Beretsâ by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler.
Save It For a Rainy Day by The Jayhawks Songfacts. This was written by Jayhawks guitarist and vocalist Gary Louris, who was the band's principal songwriter at the time. He told us it was inspired by a Canadian advert, for a bank about trying to save it for a rainy day. Louris told us he couldn't mention one of them, because she's well known.