Some Other Time

A tender ballad from the 1944 RKO musical Step Lively, one of several films Sinatra made during his Columbia Records peak years. The song’s gentle resignation — love deferred rather than denied — gives it a wistful quality that sits comfortably alongside the era’s great wartime ballads.

Quietly beautiful and largely overlooked, it’s the kind of deep-catalog Cahn and Styne gem that rewards discovery.