 "Pal Joey" achieved wider acclaim in the decades after its initial production.Throughout much of the 1940s, the songs from "Pal Joey" were banned from radio play by ASCAP, preventing them from becoming popular standards; the ban was lifted in the late 1940s.In 1950, the song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" became popular and was recorded by various bands and pop singers, including Mel Torme, Doris Day, and Gordon Jenkins and The Harmonicats.