Dad's Army Theme

artist:Bud Flanagan

, writer:Jimmy Perry, Derek Taverner

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Title: Dad's Army Theme

Artist: Bud Flanagan

Writer: Jimmy Perry, Derek Taverner

Song Types: Musical, OldTime

Key: C

Info: Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide.

The show's theme tune, "Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Hitler?" was Jimmy Perry's idea, intended as a gentle pastiche of wartime songs. It was the only pastiche in the series, as the other music used was contemporary to the 1940s. Perry wrote the lyrics himself and composed the music with Derek Taverner. Perry persuaded one of his childhood idols, wartime entertainer Bud Flanagan, to sing the theme for 100 guineas. Flanagan died less than a year after the recording. At the time it was widely believed to be a wartime song

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Dad's Army Theme

artist:Bud Flanagan

, writer:Jimmy Perry, Derek Taverner

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