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Richard Adler and Jerry Ross composed the song “Hey There” for the 1954 musical The Pajama Game, about the courtship of Sid, the superintendent of a pajama factory, and Babe, the head of the seamstresses’ complaint committee. (They’re demanding a seven-and-a-half cent raise.) “Hey There” is a soliloquy that Sid sings to himself with the help of his dictaphone. The song has survived long past the musical itself, largely by the vocal graces of Rosemary Clooney and Sammy Davis, Jr., both of whom added the song to their recorded and live repertoire. It is an anthem for the jilted. Here is Mrs. Clooney in 1954.