A Kiss is Still a Kiss

Casablanca always finds a place in top 10 in the list of top 100 American films put up by any film critic. No one ever disputes this. Who can forget the haunting song which Ingrid Bergman asked to be ``played again'', and which brought back such painful memories for Bogart's Rick: ``You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss ''?

However, few realize that what was sung in the movie is only part of a song written by Herman Hupfield 12 years earlier and it actaually had a connection with Einstein and his Theory of Relativity. The introduction to the song goes as follows:

"This day and age we're living in
Give cause for apprehension
With speed and new invention
And things like fourth dimension
Yet we get a trifle weary
With Mr. Einstein's theory
So we must get down to earth at times
Relax, relieve the tension
And no matter what the progress
Or what may yet be proved
The simple facts of life are such
They cannot be removed

You must remember this
A kiss is still a kiss
A sigh is still a sigh
The fundamental things apply
As time goes by..... "

© 1931 by Warner Bros. Music Corporation,
ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers )