if they asked me - I could write a book...

 The film When Harry Met Sally... has terrific music as part of the setting.

It isn't a musical.

But good songs from "the American Songbook" help to create the atmosphere.

-- The song "It Had To Be You" is in the movie several times - sometimes instrumental, and at least once sung by Harry Connick, Jr.

        It had to be you, wonderful you - it had to be you!

That song was also in the Woody Allen movie, Annie Hall.

When I went to Boston University (sometimes called "B.U.") in a building where some of my classes were, in the ladies' restroom, written on the wall was:  "It had to B.U."

Also in When Harry Met Sally..., 

If they asked me - I could write a book

About the way you walk, and whisper and look -

I could write the preface on how we met,

So the world would never forget...

and

(Louis Armstrong singing)

You say neether, I say nih-ther,*

You say either, and I say ih-ther - 

Eether, ihther, neither, nigh-ther - 

Let's call the whole thing off, yes...

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*(I spelled the lyrics of the song phonetically, the way they pronounce them, so that you know how it sounds....)

 

Louis Armstrong

Harry Connick, Jr.

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