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 wide-angle, mobile camera shot used to film the scene, known as a boom shot. The arrangement is by George Williams. The Jack Million Band recorded it on the album "In the Mood for Glenn Miller, Vol. 2". "Boom Shot" was included on the 1959 double LP released by Twentieth Century Fox entitled "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra", TCF 100-2, which included music from the "Orchestra Wives" and "Sun Valley Serenade" movies. In May, 1959, "Boom Shot" was released as a 7" vinyl 45 single by the British Top Rank label with "You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby" by the Glenn