Pennsylvania 6-5000

artist:Glenn Miller, Andrews Sisters

, writer: Jerry Gray, Carl Sigman

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 {t:Pennsylvania 6-5000 }
{artist:Glenn Miller - Andrews Sisters }
{key: C}
Glen Miller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dse9FDWz_uQ But in E
{c: }
[C] Numbers I've got by the [F] dozen 
[C] Everyone's uncle and [A7] cousin
[Dm7] But I can't live without [G7] buzzin'
[C] Pennsylvania Six, Five Thousand

[C] I've got a sweety I [F] know there
[C] Someone who sets me a-[A7]glow there
[Dm7] Gives me the sweetest "he-[G7]llo there"
[C] Pennsylvania Six, Five Thousand

[E7] We don't say "how [Am] are you"
And very [E7] seldom ask "what's [Am] new?"
[F] Instead we start and [G7] end each call with
[F] "Baby confidentially [G7] I love you"

[C] Maybe it sounds a bit [F] funny
[C] When I'm away from my honey
[Dm7] Here's what I do with my [G7]  money
[C] Pennsylvania Six, Five Thousand

{c: Repeat whole song if desired}

Song Info

Title: Pennsylvania 6-5000

Artist: Glenn Miller, Andrews Sisters

Writer:  Jerry Gray, Carl Sigman

Song Types: Jazz, Pop, Swing

Key: C

Info: "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is a 1940 swing jazz and pop standard with music by Jerry Gray and lyrics by Carl Sigman. It was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra as a Bluebird 78 rpm single.

Many big band names played in the Hotel Pennsylvania's Cafe Rouge in New York City, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The hotel's telephone number, PEnnsylvania 6-5000, inspired the Glenn Miller 1940 Top 5 Billboard hit of the same name, which had a 12-week chart run. The instrumental was recorded on April 28, 1940 in New York. The 78 single was released in June, 1940 as RCA Victor Bluebird 78 B-10754-A backed with "Rug Cutter's Swing"

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, Jimmy Mundy and His Orchestra (1959), Louise Gold, Kathy Miller, Martin Brushane Big Band, the Blue Moon Big Band (1999), in a 1976 Carol Burnett Show episode in a tribute to Glenn Miller, Syd Lawrence, Michael Maxwell and His Orchestra, Richard Hunt and Jerry Nelson (Bobby Benson and the Baby Band) in The Muppet Show (1979, Episode 319), Fud Candrix and His Orchestra, Jerry Gray, Mina, Lou Haskins, Jack Livingston, Raquel Rastenni (1941) in Copenhagen, Starlight Orchestra, Klaus Wunderlich, New 101 Strings Orchestra, Heptet, Meco, 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

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Pennsylvania 6-5000

artist:Glenn Miller, Andrews Sisters

, writer: Jerry Gray, Carl Sigman

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