Beechwood 4-5789

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"Beechwood 4-5789"
Single by The Marvelettes
from the album Playboy
B-side	"Someday, Someway"
Released	July 11, 1962
Recorded	May 19, 1962
Genre	Rock and roll, soul, doo-wop, R&B
Length	2:13
Label	Tamla T 54065
Songwriter(s)	Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, George Gordy
Producer(s)	William "Mickey" Stevenson
The Marvelettes singles chronology
"Playboy" (1962) "Beechwood 4-5789" / "Someday, Someway" (1962) "Strange I Know" (1962)

"Beechwood 4-5789" is a song written by Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and George Gordy. It was a 1962 hit single for the Motown girl group The Marvelettes on Motown's Tamla subsidiary record label. The song became a hit again when it was covered by the pop duo The Carpenters in 1982.

The song's title is derived from the now-defunct use of telephone exchange names in telephone numbers. In this case, the significant portions of the exchange name were the first two letters of "Beechwood" (BE), and the remainder of the number. In conventional modern use, this telephone number would be 234–5789.