Favorite Songs From Movies Top Ten: As Time Goes By (#8)

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Rain, rain, and rain. I’ll take it over the severe weather forecast for the Deep South (a/k/a “Dixie Alley”). When it’s rainy you can stay inside and watch a movie or listen to music…or in the case of this countdown, mix the two! Here’s another favorite from a movie. #8: As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By.” (Ilsa) That’s right. Not “Play it again, Sam.” This wasn’t nominated for an Oscar because the song dates to 1931 and didn’t originate with the movie. It was written for a Broadway play called Everybody’s Welcome. I don’t know if anyone remembers that play. In contrast, Casablanca is part of the American landscape. Oh, what a song, and oh, what a movie. One of my all-time favorite films, I watch Casablanca at least twice a year just on general principles. (Actually, on DVD. ) Hearing Al Stewart’s “The Year of the Cat,” with its opening verse about this film (“On a morning for a Bogart movie in a country where they turn back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime”) can put me in the mood. Or a rainy Friday afternoon. Anytime is a good time for this song and this movie. Play it, Sam. As Time Goes By Written by Herman Hupfeld Recorded by Dooley Wilson From Casablanca, 1942 The world will always welcome lovers: