Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

In discussing the song, Murphy said: "To find a refrain which will go with a swing is the secret of success in popular song-writing for the general public...

In Nora Bayes' 1910 recording of the song, she gives a wink to her own Jewish heritage by "accidentally" singing "Has anybody here seen Levi...I mean Kelly."

[2][3] In 1928, William Wyler directed a Universal Pictures silent starring Bessie Love titled Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

In 1917, the British composer Havergal Brian based much of the opening scene of his burlesque opera The Tigers around the song (or rather round the refrain), which runs beneath and through the action as policeman search for a missing person during a Bank Holiday carnival on Hampstead Heath.

For Kelly had her ticket and her spending money too, She wandered over London like a hound upon the scent, At last she found herself outside the Houses of Parliament.

A verse from an adaptation of the song was featured in the film Catch Me If You Can on a broadcast of the 1960s television program Sing Along With Mitch.

The song was also referenced in a 1959 episode of the television series Bachelor Father titled "Bentley, the Hero".

The theme tune to Kelly Monteith's BBC television series also used part of the song's music.

[7] The film is a six-part episodic Western with the song featuring in the sixth and final segment, "The Mortal Remains".