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"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War, and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain.
Fred Godfrey (17 September 1880 – 22 February 1953) was the pen name of Llewellyn Williams, a World War I songwriter. He is best known for the songs " Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty " (1916) and " Bless 'Em All " (1917), which became a 1940s hit when recorded by George Formby and which can be found on many war films.
"Bless 'Em All", also known as "The Long and the Short and the Tall" and "Fuck 'Em All", is a war song. The words have been credited to Fred Godfrey in 1917 set to music composed by Robert Kewley, however, early versions of the song may have existed amongst British military personnel in the 1880s in India.
Their version of the song also added a new bridge co-written by Howard Barrett, Tyrone Evans and the song's producers Bill Padley and Jem Godfrey, hence the subtitle "Get the Feeling". The song was regularly played on Radio Disney in the United States from 2002 to 2004 and again in 2021.
Although it had existed in various forms since 1972, Swell Maps formed into a coherent musical entity after the beginning of British punk. [3] The band consisted of Solihull teenagers Epic Soundtracks (real name Kevin Paul Godfrey), his brother Nikki Sudden (real name Adrian Nicholas Godfrey), Jowe Head (Stephen Bird), Biggles Books (Richard Scaldwell), Phones Sportsman (David Barrington) and ...
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A 1947 recording by Arthur Godfrey, with orchestra under the direction of Archie Bleyer, [3] reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts. [4] In 1947–8 recordings were also made by Alain Romans , [ 5 ] The Andrews Sisters , [ 6 ] Blue Barron , [ 7 ] Frank Sinatra , [ 8 ] Louis Prima , [ 9 ] Lulu Belle and Scotty , [ 10 ] Slim Bryant , [ 11 ] The ...
Epic Soundtracks was the stage name of the British musician Kevin Paul Godfrey (23 March 1959 – 6 November 1997). [1] Born in Croydon , Surrey, [ 1 ] he was brought up in Solihull , West Midlands with his brother Adrian Nicholas Godfrey, who was known as Nikki Sudden (1956–2006).