We just watched the movie and throughout it, this song was played more than a bit often. And, that would be "As Time Goes By."
It is rare that a single song is so tied to a single movie, but this is certainly the case with "As Time Goes By" and "Casablanca." It is so closely identified that when you see any movie released by Warner Brothers (the company that made the movie) these days, several bars of the song play with the WB logo.
But it almost wasn't that way. The song was written by Herman Hupfield in 1931 for the Broadway musical "Everybody's Welcome." It had been included by playwrights Joan Alison and Murray Bennett in their original play, "Everybody Comes to Rick's."
Once the film production was underway, composer Max Steiner, who had already won two Oscars wanted to change the song and insert something original of his, giving him the potential to easrn rotyalties and possibly another Academy Award.
--Cooter
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