Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

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"As Time Goes By"
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"As Time Goes By"

Herman Hupfeld

Jul 22, 2023
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You’d think that the name of the composer of the American Film Institute’s #2 choice for it’s list of 100 Top Songs from Film — second only to “Somewhere over the Rainbow” — would be a household word. And if you thought that, as I did, you were wrong, as I was.

Herman Hupfeld was a modest man of no small talents, born and raised in my home state of N…

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