Episode # 1929
7/20 As Time Goes By It didn’t win the Oscar for best song because it wasn’t new when it appeared in the movie Casablanca, courtesy of Dooley Wilson, who wasn’t a singer and couldn’t play the piano. But it rose quickly, a decade after Herman Hupfeld first wrote it for a Broadway revue, to become one of America’s iconic songs. Is there anyone who doesn’t recognize, “Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’”
