As Time Goes By (song)
As Time Goes By is a musical song by Herman Hupfeld ( lyrics and melody ) from the year 1931. The song was made famous by the movie Casablanca.
The song
The song is in the classic song form AABA. Each stanza includes 32 bars. In the A- part of it is invested in major and in the B section in a minor key. It was designed as part of the Broadway musical Everybody 's Welcome, which was performed from October 1931 to February 1932, and there was sung by Frances Williams.
Content
The chorus is as follows:
You must remember this A kiss is a kiss silent, A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by.
Approximately translate with:
Do not forget: A kiss is a kiss; a sigh is just a sigh. The basic things remain, as time passes.
Effect story
Not only Frances William took the song to the work year. The recordings of Rudy Vallee and Jacques Renard 1931 reached the charts (No. 15 and 13). Another cover version took Teddy Wilson and Billie Holiday on.
Worldwide known was the song in 1942 with the film Casablanca, sung by Dooley Wilson. In Casablanca, only the chorus of the song is played. Actually planned the Max responsible for the music of the film Steiner to replace the song by a private, but was no longer Ingrid Bergman for retakes available and Jack Warner liked as time goes by, so that he still worked with him Hupfelds song and leitmotif began in the soundtrack.
Following were due to the recording bans the recordings from 1931 again marketed. Valleys interpretation was 16 weeks, in Your Hit Parade ( four weeks and at number one ); Renard's interpretation peaked at number three. 1944 Billie Holiday played the song again ( with Eddie Heywood ) for a Commodore. 1952 took Ray Anthony As Time Goes By with singer Tommy Mercer ( tenth place ).
The song also became a jazz standard. In addition to Holiday are here especially Louis Armstrong ( accompanied by Nat King Cole ) and Ella Fitzgerald to call. Instrumental versions put about Bob Brookmeyer (1959, with Bill Evans ) before, George Cables, Erroll Garner, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordan, Rolf Kühn, Lucky Thompson ( 1965), Stéphane Grappelli and Jessica Williams.
In Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972 ), which contains allusions to Casablanca, the piece is also played ( in the version of Dooley Wilson). Furthermore, it is by Barbra Streisand in Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972 ) sung. In 1993, the song was picked up in the movie Sleepless in Seattle; there the version of Jimmy Durante ( 1965 ) is employed. A short excerpt is heard in the cinematic logo of Warner Bros. films today. As Time Goes By is the signature tune of the British television series of the same name, sung by Joe Fagin.
Harry Nilsson, who interpreted the song on his 1973 album A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, was of the view that this is perhaps the best song that has ever been written. In 1988, the song of Janis Joplin as the love was still gecovert.