Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are (1944) - The Pied Pipers

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Introduced by Sinatra (and Gloria DeHaven) in his second acting role, in RKO's _Step Lively_ , and subsequently turning up as background music in a host of RKO films of the '40s and into the '50s, this little Jule Styne melody doesn't hide and make you seek it -- it's up front and catchy, particularly paired with Sammy Cahn's repetitive lyric. It seems always to have been the Pipers' instinct to try to inject some variety, either melodically or by changing their phrasing here and there, on insistent numbers such as this one. I would say they succeeded in this chipper rendition!