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"Awoo 56709" Remixes refer to video parodies made of the song "Telephone Number" by Japanese pop artist Junko Ohashi. Online, many of the parodies use the chorus of the song, which features Ohashi singing "Awoo, 56709!" to reference the Awoo~ meme from Touhou Project.

Origin

In August 1981, Junko Ohashi released the song "Telephone Number" as part of the album Tea For Tears.^[1] On December 28th, 2016, YouTuber Professor Poulsard uploaded the track, gaining over 1.4 million views (shown below).

On May 3rd, 2017, YouTuber Slime Spawn uploaded a video remix of the song using a GIF and images of Momiji Inubashiri from the "Awoo~" meme, gaining over 391,000 views (shown below, left).

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On July 27th, user l1o2q3u4i5n made a similar video using the entire song, gaining over 880,000 views (shown below).

The song has been parodied in various video remix meme templates, though none were as popular as the above edits. Some examples include an edit by YouTuber Megumeme! which inserted into Bart Hits Homer With a Chair (shown below, left) and an edit by Sh!tking which used it in a 30 Year-old Boomer meme (shown below, right).

The song also some remixes in the Vaporwave community, such as a remix by user froger242 (shown below, left) and an edit by HD Ramen (shown below, right).

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