Key Largo (song) romance the singer compares to that depicted by the stars of the 1948 film "Key Largo", Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The glamorous couple is recalled in the lyric "We had it all / Just like Bogie and Bacall / Starring in our own late late show / Sailin' away to Key Largo". (In the film, though, Bogart and Bacall do not sail to Key Largo; Bogart arrives on a bus, and Bacall is already living there.) The lyrics also draw from the film "Casablanca", in the lines "Here's looking at you, kid" and "Please say you will / Play
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