PEnnsylvania 6-5000 imposed on all of New York City, including calls within the same area code. Letters from the original named exchange prefixes are occasionally spotted on old signage in the city, but are increasingly rare. Many big band names played in the Hotel Pennsylvania's Café Rouge, including the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The phone number became the inspiration for the Glenn Miller 1940 Top 5 "Billboard" hit of the same name. The number was used in the Milli Vanilli song, "Baby Don't Forget My Number", near the end. The number also inspired the pun title "Transylvania 6-5000", used separately as titles for
Glenn Miller Orchestra top items in his library." In just four years, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra accumulated 17 number-one singles and 59 Top Ten hits. His number-one hits stayed at the top of either "Your Hit Parade" or "Billboard" charts for 73 weeks. In a period of only 203 weeks of recording, Miller and His Orchestra's songs spent 442 weeks, the equivalent of eight and half years, in the Top Ten, 189 of which are from multiple consecutive streaks, the largest being two totalling above 70 weeks. Miller also has the distinction of having three posthumous "Billboard" number-one albums: A self-titled compilation