1st RECORDING OF: As Time Goes By - Rudy Vallee (1931)

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When the throngs of “Casablanca” fans eagerly visited the record stores in 1943 to purchase a copy of “As Time Goes By,” their choices were limited to only dated-sounding versions recorded twelve years earlier when the tune had first been introduced. Because of the ongoing strike against the record companies by the musicians union (aka ‘The Recording Ban’), no new recordings featuring union musicians were being made in early 1943. So Victor reissued this 1931 Vallee version, which now reached #2 on Billboard, and Brunswick reissued their Jacques Renard (#3 peak--listen here: https://youtu.be/1r_Hwurz7H8 ).

The original single was issued on Victor 22773 - As Time Goes By (Herman Hupfeld) by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, recorded in NYC July 25, 1931

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