[2] "Big Ship" was written by Raymond Froggatt and was close to being selected as Lulu's entry for the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest.

[3] The band did record the song but it remained unreleased until its inclusion on the box set Into Something Good: The Mickie Most Years 1964–72.

[1] "Big Ship" was released as a single with the B-side "She's Leaving You", written by the Shadows' drummer Brian Bennett, who also conducted the orchestra that backs the song.

[4] Reviewing for Record Mirror, Peter Jones wrote that "the chorus, with organ and voices added, is dead commercial, and Cliff fills in the verses with his usual warmth and clarity.

Set to a rollicking nautical-flavoured score, with a vocal group joining in the chorus, it's a happy-go-lucky ditty in much the same mould as "Good Times"".