As Time Goes By (song)

For the 1999 J-pop song, see Hiroko Shimabukuro.

"As Time Goes By"
Song by Dooley Wilson
Written1931
Published1931 by Harms, Inc.
Length2 minutes and 45 seconds
Songwriter(s)Herman Hupfeld

"As Time Goes By" is a jazz song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became famous when it featured in the 1942 film Casablanca, performed by Dooley Wilson as Sam. The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film[1] (surpassed only by "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland).

The song was covered among others by Rudy Vallee, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Vera Lynn, Bob Dylan and Bryan Ferry. It was also the title and theme song of the 1990s British romantic comedy series As Time Goes By. National Public Radio included it in its "NPR 100", a 1999 list of the most important American musical works of the 20th century as compiled by NPR's music editors.[2] The song is a popular reflection of nostalgia and often used in films and series reflecting this feeling.[3][4] Since 1999, an instrumental version of the song's closing bars has accompanied the studio logo of many Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television productions, in reference to the studio's production of Casablanca.[5]

  1. ^ "AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs". Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  2. ^ "NPR's 100". NPR. Archived from the original on December 24, 2009. Retrieved December 30, 2009.
  3. ^ Tan, Siu-Lan; Cohen, Annabel J.; Lipscomb, Scott D.; Kendall, Roger A. (June 27, 2013). The Psychology of Music in Multimedia. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0199608157.
  4. ^ Browne, Ray Broadus; Ambrosetti, Ronald J. (1993). Continuities in Popular Culture: The Present in the Past & the Past in the Present and Future. Popular Press. ISBN 9780879725938.
  5. ^ Kim, Wook (September 21, 2012). "Mountain to Moon: 10 Movie Studio Logos and the Stories Behind Them". Time. Retrieved August 12, 2023.