Talk:As Time Goes By (song)

Errors in Intro

I fixed the part of the intro which quotes the song's first verse. Original text said "chorus;" there is no chorus to the song. It's the first verse. I also changed one of the lnies to reflect the way I've heard it sung (including, I think, in Casablanca): "A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh." Very commonly mis-quoted as "a kiss is just a kiss," but in the context of the lyrics saying that the good stuff matters & ignore the bad, the other makes more sense, and is, as far as I can tell, accurate. User:Snyrt

Casablanca does not play the full song. Most noticeably, it leaves out the first verse. In fact, you can listen to Rudy Vallee's version in order to hear what the film left out. In addition, 'still' is the correct word. Even though this was changed to 'just' in the film, it is 'still' in recorded versions. --PhantomS 00:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm totality confused. The Binnie Hale recording I have has an A B A structure where A is "You must remember this ... As time goes by." then B is "This day and age we're living in ... And things like fourth (she sings "third") dimension/Yet we get a trifle weary/With Mr. Einstein's theory./...../They cannot be removed..." then she repeats the A section. Anyone have the sheet music? SageGreenRider (talk) 01:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

copied & pasted stuff

As part of a major overhaul, have put cover versions etc. in chronological order and deleted the following items from the article page 'cos they have no time reference. Please return them to the article in their chronological order:

• The song is used as the theme of the British comedy TV series As Time Goes By.

• The song was performed by American Idol finalist John Stevens (singer) during season 3.

• Tom Waits' "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart" from his album Small Change begins and ends with a few accords from the song.

• The song was played by a single violin at the funeral of Casablanca's lead actress Ingrid Bergman, being one of the most touching moments of the event.

• The song was recorded by ZZ Top and released as a ghost track at the end of their album Mescalero.

--Technopat (talk) 08:09, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

NOEL COWARD

Noel Coward most famously perfomed the song 'As Time Goes By' and you did't even mention it. You mention all kinds of people like obscure renditions, such as those of Bob dylan and Barry White and you forget to mention the most important,which is Noel Coward. It's absurd! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.95.33 (talk) 18:15, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Bugs Bunny

No one mentioned Bugs Bunny's repeated references to the classic... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.230.121.219 (talk) 17:34, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Family guy

There's seriously no need to mention Family guy here. The show references everything, as if it was tailored to appear in as many "in popular culture"-section as possible.

"Omitted reference to Einstein"

While this appears to be factually correct, it is also misleading.

First, because the reference to Einstein is only a part of the omitted verse.

Second, because it was commonplace to omit the lesser-known verses of songs in both movies and audio recordings. The most obvious example is the introduction to Somewhere Over the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz. Other examples include Don't Get Around Much Any More, Walking My Baby Back Home, For Me and My Gal, and more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by J2blake (talk • contribs) 22:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Please move the Einstein intro into the article

To someone living in 2019 it doesn't seem likely that someone in the 1930s would be familiar with Einstein and the fourth dimension. Yes, Einstein had published the work by then. But someone my age thinks Einstein and his work were not well-known until the Atomic Age and the Space Age made physics cool (for a short time -- today, nerds are banished to the back of the bus again). Someone my age is apt to regard it as more credible that lyrics about Einstein were added at some point later than the end of World War Two, but before the end of the 1960s. And yet it is true -- Einstein's in the song from the moment it was penned, even as far back as the 1930s. But to VERIFY that that is true I had to chase the citations. I would put it right up front and center that the Rudy Vallee recording contains the Einstein intro at the beginning, and that the Binnie Hale recording includes the Einstein "intro" in the middle. Then BAM, two short trips to YouTube, and it's confirmed beyond doubt. And no, "Omitted reference to Einstein" commentator above, it's not in the least bit, not by any stretch, in no way, misleading to say that Dooley Wilson in the movie "Casablanca" omitted the Einstein intro. It is simply true. He left it out. It's just a fact, like the fact that rocks and water exist.74.64.104.99 (talk) 14:56, 8 September 2019 (UTC)Christopher L. Simpson

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