MP3 found by Lou Volpe
That's Frank Sinatra singing it!
See also
Frankie on YouTube (as found by Mark Fuller)
Hit Parade of 19 February 1944 (approx 30 mins, Shoo Shoo Baby is the last one played)
Sinatra was number one in the Hit Parade with it.
But the version in the hit parade show isn't quite the same as the first one Lou found.
And neither of them are quite the same as the one in the film. Close, but not the same :(
I always felt that the screams on the version in the film are a bit too choreographed and false. But if, as I suspect, it was a version especially recorded for the film that was based on the Sinatra hit version then it's possible that they decided to add some screams because the Sinatra version had some screams in it.
Note that the date in that file is 19 Feb 1944. Maybe Emeric (who was a musician) heard that while he was originally writing the story. Remember that they originally wanted to make it in 1944/45 but they had to wait for a year to get the Technicolor cameras.
The film version does also seem a bit more like a pure blues whereas Sinatra can never resist swinging it a bit. But I'd like to think that Emeric (or Micky) did originally hear it on the radio so they used it as a radio broadcast in the film. That broadcast did mention the troops fighting for the United Nations. The body known as the UN wasn't formed until 1945 but the term was used before then. And the announcer also says that it's a re-broadcast. I expect it was shipped out on tape or record to the various theatres and then re-broadcast over the radio.
