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Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) 1940 RCA Victor Bluebird 78, B-10754-A, by Glenn Miller. " Pennsylvania 6-5000 " (also written " Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand ") is a 1940 swing jazz and pop standard recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra as a Bluebird 78 rpm single. The music was by Jerry Gray and the lyrics by Carl Sigman.
PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common from about 1930 into the 1960s. The number is best known from the 1940 hit song "Pennsylvania 6-5000", a swing jazz and pop standard recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Its owner, the Hotel Pennsylvania, claims ...
The hotel originally had 2,200 guestrooms, which started at the fifth story. The Hotel Pennsylvania used the prominent and memorable telephone number, PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (736–5000), which inspired the lyrics and title of the song "Pennsylvania 6-5000".
These included "Pennsylvania 6-5000". [3] His songs were also hits for individual singers. Some of the best-known are " My Heart Cries for You ", which was recorded by three different artists in 1951: Dinah Shore , Guy Mitchell and Vic Damone .
The song was written and composed by former prison administrator Eddie Khoury [1] and Ronnie Bonner and serves as the official state song for all public purposes. State Representative Frank L. Oliver introduced the bill for the song, and it was adopted by the Pennsylvanian General Assembly and signed into law by Governor Robert P. Casey on November 29, 1990.
English. Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Chuck Jones. [1] The short was released on November 30, 1963, and stars Bugs Bunny. [2] It is a comedy film, depicting a confrontation between Bugs and a vampire in Transylvania.
The song's lyrics are about a man and his wife and their hard life due to alcoholism. The tone and tune, however, are bright and cheerful, indicating the irony of the singer not knowing his degraded condition. The first verse of the song is: My wife and I live all alone, In a little log hut, we called our own. She loved gin, and I loved rum.
"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade".