This is the best summary I could come up with:

If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you’ll get a computerized woman’s voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.

In the age of Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, why would you pick up your phone to listen to a tinny rendition of “Private Eyes,” like you’re on hold with customer service?

Let’s agree that valuing this hotline for its sheer utility requires a fairly elaborate scenario to be devised.

It’s the idea that if you pick up your phone and dial a number, a robot lady plays Hall & Oates music on command.

As the hotline’s developer told the Atlantic Wire, Callin’ Oates started as a demonstration project for his communications job at Twilio, a company that … basically makes applications that do things like this, although presumably, it can make ones that are somewhat more utilitarian.

Presumably, Callin’ Oates doesn’t have an extraordinarily long shelf life (though it does have its own Twitter account), since there’s only so much time you can spend on the phone listening to “Rich Girl.”

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