Lillie introduced the song to London audiences in June of that year in cabaret at the Café de Paris.
It has been suggested that the activities described in the lyrics were typical of the "frantic, addleheaded search for amusement" of the Train bleu society, which flocked to the Riviera each summer in the 1920s and '30s.
Beattie eventually sang the song in Set to Music wearing slacks, a fisherman's shirt, several ropes of pearls, a large sun-hat and dark glasses".
[5] Lillie introduced the song to London audiences in June 1939 in cabaret at the Café de Paris,[6] and later in the year it was included in the revue All Clear at the Queen's Theatre.
[5] At the midnight gala at the Phoenix Theatre on 5 December 1969, marking Coward's seventieth birthday, Danny La Rue performed the song.