Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song)
"Pennsylvania 6-5000" is a 1940 swing jazz and pop standard recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The song was released as an RCA Bluebird 78 the Hotel single by Glenn Miller.
Glenn Miller recording
Many big band names played in Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge in New York City, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The telephone number of Hotel Pennsylvania became the inspiration for the Glenn Miller hit. The 1940 recording by Glenn Miller became a Top 5 Billboard hit with a 12 week chart run.[1] The music was written by Jerry Gray and the lyrics by Carl Sigman. The 78 single was released as RCA Bluebird 78 B-10754-A backed with "Rug Cutter's Swing".
Other recordings
The song became a jazz and big band standard also recorded by the Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland and Martha Raye in a duet, the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Louise Gold, Kathy Miller, Richard Hunt, and Jerry Nelson in 1979, Martin Brushane Big Band, the Blue Moon Big Band in 1999, in 1976 on the Carol Burnett Show in a tribute to Glenn Miller, Syd Lawrence, Michael Maxwell and His Orchestra, Bobby Benson and the Baby Band in The Muppet Show episode 319 in 1979, Fud Candrix and His Orchestra, Jerry Gray, Mina, Lou Haskins, Jack Livingston, Raquel Rastenni in 1941 in Copenhagen, Starlight Orchestra, Klaus Wunderlich, New 101 Strings Orchestra, Tex Beneke, The Modernaires, Jack Million Band, Al Pierson Big Band, BBC Big Band Orchestra, SWR Big Band, and by Captain Cook und seine singenden Saxophone in 2012.[2]
In popular culture
The tune was referenced by synthpop duo Erasure on their little-known song "Sixty-Five Thousand" from The Innocents. It also inspired the pun title "Transylvania 6-5000", used separately by a Bugs Bunny cartoon and a full-length live-action film. The number was requested in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and was also referenced in a mix of the Milli Vanilli song "Baby Don't Forget My Number".
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers sampled the song on the "Glenn Miller Medley" in 1989.
The song appears in the 1999 Oliver Stone movie Any Given Sunday.[3]
The song is featured in the third episode of Twin Peaks aired in 1990.[4]
The song appears on the 2008 American Dad! episode "The One That Got Away."[5]
Judy Garland and Martha Raye performed the song with the Carl Sigman lyrics on a 1964 episode of The Judy Garland Show on CBS.
The song appeared on a 1976 episode of the CBS series The Carol Burnett Show.
The song was featured on a 1979 episode of The Muppet Show.
The song appeared in a 2006 episode of the The Simpsons TV series entitled "Million Dollar Abie".
See also
References
Sources
- Flower, John (1972). Moonlight Serenade: a bio-discography of the Glenn Miller Civilian Band. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House. ISBN 0-87000-161-2.
- Miller, Glenn (1943). Glenn Miller's Method for Orchestral Arranging. New York: Mutual Music Society. ASIN: B0007DMEDQ
- Simon, George Thomas (1980). Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. New York: Da Capo paperback. ISBN 0-306-80129-9.
- Simon, George Thomas (1971). Simon Says. New York: Galahad. ISBN 0-88365-001-0.
- Schuller, Gunther (1991). Volume 2 of The Swing Era:the Development of Jazz, 1930–1945 /. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507140-9.
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