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A. Your Dad's answer is the same one that 99 % of my lecture audiences give. All are wrong, of course. This is a great trivia question that no one ever gets right....and for good reason. The writer never received much notice.
The great song is "As Time Goes By.' It is one of the most popular songs from the golden era of the Great American Songbook. As any fan of classic films and the swing era knows, it was THE song in 'CASABLANCA.' It is one of the few successful songs ever written by a "Jersey Boy".....Herman Hupfeld. Herman was born, raised and died in beautiful Montclair, New Jersey. It was home to Buzz Aldrin, great golf architect, Robert Trent Jones, baseball greats Yogi Berra and Larry Doby (first black player in the American League), basketball star/US Senator Bill Bradley, actress Olympia Dukakis, and scores of other distinguished artists, performers, business professionals and musicians who were drawn to the cosmopolitan town that sits high on a hill overlooking Manhattan. It was also the real life home of the Gilbreth family of "Cheaper By The Dozen" fame.
The "piano" player was Dooley Wilson....he was a singer only....could not play the piano. Hoagy Carmichael is a good guess since he appeared as a singing piano player in the later Bogart-Bacall flm "To Have and To Have Not."
Here are Herman Hupfeld's classic lyrics;
You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is still (just) a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by
And when two lovers woo
They still say: "i love you"
On that you can rely
No matter what the future brings
As time goes by
Moonlight and love songs - never out of date
Hearts full of passion - jealousy and hate
Woman needs man - and man must have his mate
That no one can deny
It’s still the same old story
A fight for love and glory
A case of do or die
The world will always welcome lovers
As time goes by
Scenes from the movie "Casablanca" as Frank Sinatra sings "As Time Goes By."
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