PEnnsylvania 6-5000 PEnnsylvania 6-5000 PEnnsylvania 6-5000 is a telephone number in New York City, written in the 2L+5N (two letters, five numbers) format that was common in the largest US cities from approximately 1930 into the 1960s. The named "Pennsylvania" exchange served the area around Penn Station in New York. The two letters, "PE", stand for the numbers 7 and 3, making the phone number 736-5000, not including the later area code 212 for Manhattan. 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
Glenn Miller discography label listed as "Glenn Miller". Teagarden sang and played trombone on the recording. "Wings on Parade" was a "musical work" posthumously copyrighted on September 21, 1951 as a "piano solo" by Glenn Miller. The alternate title is "The Flaming Sword of Liberation" which was copyrighted on July 15, 1944 and published by the Mutual Music Society. The "Copyright Claimant" is listed as Steven D. Miller, Glenn Miller's adopted son. The copyright was renewed on January 10, 1979. The song was performed on July 9, 1944 by Captain Glenn Miller and the American Band of the Supreme Allied Command for radio