While singing some jingles in a Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas studio in early 1977, she caught the attention of former Bloodrock vocalist Jim Rutledge from Fort Worth, who introduced her to music producer Boomer Castleman.
Wilson began recording for his BNA Records label and taped her self-composed song "Telephone Man" based on her brief affair with a Dallas telephone technician installing the phone in her new apartment there.
[7] After singing locally in Atlanta, Georgia for more than two decades and occasionally touring on novelty song circuits, in 1999 Meri Wilson released an updated version of "Telephone Man", called "Internet Man".
It became a drive-time radio airplay song, which resulted in her getting a deal with Time-Warner Records.
"Internet Man" (GAMC 1999) First Take (GRT 8023, 1977, LP, 8-Track, Cassette) Meri Wilson: The World's Funniest Telephone Man's Lady (2001 Legend, CD) Meri Wilson (2002 Ansley, CD) [Compilation]