Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
A prank call (also known as a crank call) is a telephone practical joke. Prank phone calls began to gain an American following over a period of many years as they became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded amongst musicians sound engineers and media traders beginning in the late 1970s. Among the most famous and earliest recorded prank calls are the Tube Bar prank calls tapes which centered around Louis Red Deutsch.