SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT
TRE song "By the Side of the Zuyder Zee" was written and composed in half an hour and sold outright tor £1000. The popular "Dutch" melody was the work of Bennett Scott and A. J. Mills. During World War One a Tommy wrote to Scott: "I’m fed. up. I wish I were back in dear old Blighty." "That expresses the feeling of the moment,", said Scott to Bennett. "We must write a song about it." And that’s how "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" came to life.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 25
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92SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 763, 5 March 1954, Page 25
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