Play the Song Sam

Vocal by Herman Hupfeld

"Every bit Fourth dimension Goes By"
Song by Herman Hupfeld
Written	1931
Published	1931 by Harms, Inc.
Songwriter(s)	Herman Hupfeld

"As Fourth dimension Goes By" is a jazz song written past Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became famous when it was featured in the 1942 Warner Bros. 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 moving picture^[ane] (but surpassed by "Over the Rainbow" by Judy Garland). The song has since go the signature tune of Warner Bros. and used as such in the product logos at the beginning of many Warner Bros. films since Jan 16, 1998 with Fallen as function of the 75th-anniversary opening montage before the feature presentation trailers for the movie theatre chains and the master on-screen logo since February 12, 1999 with Message in a Canteen, equally well every bit the endmost logos to most Warner Bros. Television Studios shows since autumn 2003 with Two and a Half Men, and preexisting shows also switching over from a previous theme that had been used since 1994.

The song was covered by Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Harry Nilsson, and Bryan Ferry. Information technology was also the championship and theme song of the 1990s British romantic one-act serial Every bit Time Goes By. National Public Radio included it in its "NPR 100", a 1999 list of the well-nigh important American musical works of the 20th century as compiled by NPR'due south music editors.^[2] The song is a popular reflection of nostalgia and often used in films and series reflecting this feeling.^{[iii] [4]}

Background [edit]

Herman Hupfeld wrote "As Time Goes Past" for the Broadway musical Everybody'southward Welcome which opened on Oct 31, 1931. In the original testify, it was sung by Frances Williams. It was first recorded by Rudy Vallée on July 25, 1931 for Victor Records, so as well past Jacques Renard and his Orchestra on Brunswick Records and Fred Rich. In 1932, Binnie Hale recorded the song. Elisabeth Welch included the song in her cabaret act soon after it was released. In terms of popularity at the time, it was a pocket-sized hit.

The song was re-introduced in the 1942 moving-picture show Casablanca where it was sung by Sam, portrayed by Dooley Wilson. Sam'southward piano accompaniment was played by a studio pianist, Jean Vincent Plummer.^{[5] [half-dozen] [seven]} The tune is heard throughout the film equally a leitmotif.^[8] Wilson was unable to make a commercial recording of the song at the time due to the 1942–44 musicians' strike. Unable to record new versions of the song, RCA Victor reissued the 1931 recording by Rudy Vallée, which became a number ane hit eleven years later on it was originally released. Brunswick too reissued the 1931 Jacques Renard recording.^{[9] [ten]}

Hupfeld lived his whole life in Montclair, New Jersey, and was a regular customer at the Robin Hood Inn (now the Valley Regency), a tavern built in 1922 on Valley Road, then part of Upper Montclair. He spent many hours at the piano and wrote several of his songs in this tavern. A plaque on the second floor of the Valley Regency Catering Facility in Clifton, New Jersey, commemorates the song. He wrote over one hundred songs, including "Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep," and the popular Groovy Depression song "Are You Making Any Money?"^[eleven]

Composition and lyrics [edit]

The vocal was originally published in the fundamental of E-apartment major. In the film as sung and played past "Sam", it was recorded in D-flat major. It has since been played in several keys, commonly C major, but also B-apartment major, every bit in Frank Sinatra'southward recording, and other keys including A major and E-flat major.

Like many later singers, Wilson in Casablanca starts with "Y'all must remember this, a kiss is withal a osculation...", singing merely the verses and refrain ("As time goes by"). He entirely omits the intro that put those "central things" into context: "This day and age we're living in/Gives cause for apprehension[...] Yet nosotros get a trifle weary/With Mr Einstein's theory/So we must get downwards to earth at times [...] The simple facts of life [...] cannot be removed".^{[12] [13] [xiv]} At to the lowest degree one version moves the intro into the middle of the song.^[15]

Use by Warner Bros. [edit]

In regard to the song's use every bit the signature tune of Warner Bros., it was used as such in the production logos at the beginning of many Warner Bros. films January xvi, 1998 withFallen as part of the 75th anniversary opening montage before the feature presentation trailers for the flick theatre chains and the main on-screen logo since February 12, 1999 with Message in a Bottle, as well as the endmost logos to about Warner Bros. Television Studios shows since fall 2003 with Two and a Half Men, and preexisting shows as well switching over from a previous theme that had been used since 1994.

The original fanfare debuted in 1998 during the studio's 75th anniversary with an opening montage, which would later exist used in 1999. It would afterward be re-orchestrated for the new logo's fanfare, composed by Ludwig Göransson, which was favored over Billy Mallery'south composition and iv other composers, which debuted on April 21, 2021 in Italy with Non Mi Uccidere (the tv set analogue debuted earlier its movie counterpart on March iv, 2021 with Young Sheldon season 4 episode x, entitled "Cowboy Aerobics and 473 Grease-free Bolts"). In the new version, the fanfare at present played in a different key and has a more powerful build upwards and the opening notes are at present played on a guitar and flute as opposed to a pianoforte.

Charts [edit]

Wilson's version was re-released in parts of the world in tardily 1977, including the UK where it reached number fifteen in January 1978, and Australia where it peaked at number 86 in March 1978.

Nautical chart (1978)	Elevation position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[16]	86

References [edit]

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3. ^ Tan, Siu-Lan; Cohen, Annabel J.; Lipscomb, Scott D.; Kendall, Roger A. (June 27, 2013). The Psychology of Music in Multimedia. ISBN978-0199608157.
4. ^ Browne, Ray Broadus; Ambrosetti, Ronald J. (1993). Continuities in Popular Civilisation: The Present in the By & the By in the Present and Hereafter. ISBN9780879725938.
5. ^ "Who Played Information technology Again, Sam? The Three Pianists of 'Casablanca'". AFM. Retrieved Oct 1, 2017. https://world wide web.afm47.org/press/iii-pianists-of-casablanca/
6. ^ "Jean Vincent Plummer".
7. ^ Buhler, James; Caryl Flinn; David Neumeyer (2000). Music and movie theater. Wesleyan Academy Press. p. 174. ISBN978-0-8195-6411-v.
8. ^ Zinsser, William (2000). Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. Jaffrey, New Hampshire: David R. Godine. p. 165. ISBN978-1-56792-325-4.
9. ^ Jasen, David A. (2003). Tin Pan Aisle: an encyclopedia of the golden age of American song. New York: Taylor & Francis. p. 216. ISBN978-0-415-93877-8.
10. ^ Gilliland, John (1994). Pop Chronicles the 40s: The Lively Story of Popular Music in the 40s (audiobook). ISBN978-i-55935-147-eight. OCLC 31611854. Tape 1, side A.
11. ^ Hall, Roger (2015). A Guide to Moving picture Music: Songs and Scores. PineTree Press, sixth edition. p. 23.
12. ^ Randy Wayne (November 20, 2015). "As Fourth dimension Goes By and Albert Einstein. Do the Central Things Still Utilise?". The Lansing Star. Archived from the original on November 24, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
13. ^ Peter Galison (Feb 12, 2015). "EMC2x: The Einstein Revolution". HarvardX - courses.edx.org . Retrieved Feb 12, 2015.
14. ^ Peter Galison (January 22, 2015). "HAREMC2XT115-V000200_100". HarvardX - YouTube . Retrieved February 12, 2015.
15. ^ 'As Time Goes By' (Binnie Hale, 1932). Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.
16. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Nautical chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Nautical chart Book. p. 340. ISBN0-646-11917-6.

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