The Smiths chose to open their 1986 album, The Queen Is Dead, with a sound sample from this film – taken from the scene at the house in London during the Christmas season, in which Mavis leads her fellow Brits through an off-key chorus of "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty".
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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".
# "(Take Me Back To) Dear Old Blighty" - 1:27 (piano – Zoot Money; composed: A.J. Mills, Bennett Scott, F. Godfrey,
He became well known for his recordings of First World War songs, for example the American song "There's a Long Long Trail" in 1916 and "Take me Back to Dear Old Blighty" (as Eric Courtland) in a duet with George Baker (as Walter Jeffries) in 1917; he also made one of the earliest recordings of the famous ballad "Roses of Picardy" in 1918 shortly after it had been written.