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5 unusual facts about Fred Godfrey


Dynamite Daze

# "(Take Me Back To) Dear Old Blighty" - 1:27 (piano – Zoot Money; composed: A.J. Mills, Bennett Scott, F. Godfrey,

Fred Godfrey

They were married in Treherbert; after which they moved to 6 Streatham Place, London.

He also wrote songs for Florrie Forde, Mark Sheridan, Dorothy Ward, Shaun Glenville, Ella Retford and Vesta Victoria.

(One of her cousins was Collie Knox, a well-known Daily Mail journalist of the 1930s and 1940s. Her older brother Charles Ellis Lloyd was a Welsh novelist.)

Tom E. Finglass

In 1930 he teamed up with songwriter Fred Godfrey to create a variety act featuring Godfrey’s hit songs.


Bennett Scott

He co-wrote many songs with A.J. Mills and Fred Godfrey including Tom Costello’s "I’ve Made Up My Mind To Sail Away", Whit Cunliffe’s "Fall In And Follow Me", "One Of The B’hoys" by Mark Sheridan, "When I Take My Morning Promenade" by Marie Lloyd, "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty by Florrie Forde and "Take me in a Taxi, Joe".

Get Cracking

Released on 17 May 1943 and running at 96 minutes in black and white, the film was written by L. du Garde Peach, Michael Vaughan and John L. Arthur, while the songs were written by George Formby with Fred Godfrey, Fred E. Cliffe and Eddie Latta.


see also

The Long and the Short and the Tall

"Bless 'Em All" (also known as The Long And The Short And The Tall), a 1917 song by Fred Godfrey, first recorded by George Formby in 1940