[3] Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds, Prof Derek B Scott,[4] argues that the song is influenced by the Viennese popular style.

But we find that the tonality is actually the relative major of the key implied by the tune, and the harmonies consist of the tonic (with a free-floating sixth) and dominant ninth.

The dance has been attributed to BBC producer, John Ammonds,[5] and Eric's son Gary recalls that the inspiration for the skip-dance came from a Groucho Marx film sequence.

[6] When Eric Morecambe died in 1984 so closely associated were the pair with the song that it was the title of the Bring Me Sunshine tribute show at the London Palladium held in his memory.

When Morecambe & Wise defected from the BBC to Thames Television in 1978, directly after their record-breaking Christmas Special the previous year, the signature tune was dropped.