As Time Goes By, by Sam.
Sam in Casablanca, of course, was played by Dooley Wilson, not that I could’ve told you that without looking it up, and having gone maybe 20 years at minimum without seeing anything except the usual 2-3 clips in commercials and montages and whatnot.
But there was a point where a dumb Bogart imitation I learned from, well, probably from Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, I think, was a regular part of my rotation of characters, right up there with Robin Williams doing a Robin Leach impression in Night at the Met, which is to say, wait a minute, have I always been into #covers-of-a-cover? Gotta learn from somewhere, I guess.
This song was in my head, so I practiced the chords a couple times, found a key that almost worked, and got it out.
But my favorite version of this is Billie Holiday’s, which has more emotion in its “a sigh is just a sigh” than anyone else ever put into the whole song.