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The lyricist Carl Sigman, who has died aged 91, would have deserved his place in music history for one song alone - Pennsylvania 6-5000. That first hit took its title from the telephone number of New York's Hotel Pennsylvania, and was recorded by Glenn Miller at the end of the 1930s. When it featured in the 1954 film, The Glenn Miller Story, it became a folk memory for a generation that loved seeing James Stewart on the phone to June Allyson.
Sigman's All In The Game was a hit twice for Tommy Edwards, in 1951 and 1958, a British success for Cliff Richard in the 1960s, and also for the Four Tops. In 1953, he provided lyrics for Robert Maxwell's Ebb Tide, and, soon afterwards, wrote the "riding through the glen" theme for the British television series of Robin...