[2][3] In the 1970s, Barnes worked with Bing Crosby, Peter Sellers, Frankie Laine, Peggy Lee and Fred Astaire.
[5] Barnes also published several books, contributed liner notes for reissue albums, and wrote comedy scripts for BBC TV.
In America, Barnes wrote special material for Crosby, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Peter Sellers, amongst others.
He wrote and delivered the DVD audio commentary on Citizen Kane (1941) and Holiday Inn (1942),[7] starring Astaire and Crosby.
The DVD also featured a supplementary documentary, A Couple of Song and Dance Men, in which he appears with Astaire's daughter, Ava Astaire-MacKenzie.