"Jolly Good Company" (or "Here We Are Again, Jolly Good Company") is a 1931 song written by English songwriter

Huntley Trevor Percy Huntley Trevor (born Percy William Favatt; 8 April 1881 – 17 April 1943) was an English songwriter. Generally known as Huntley Trevor, he sometimes published music under the pseudonyms Raymond Wallace, Chester Wallace, and Slade Willi ...

using the pseudonym Raymond Wallace. The song was published in 1931 by the firm of Campbell Connelly. It was immediately recorded by several leading British acts, including Jack Leon,

Bobbie Comber Edmund Comber (8 January 1886 – 1 March 1942),5 March 1942, "Chit Chat", ''The Stage'', p.4, accessed viThe Stage Archive2 February 2014 known professionally as Bobbie Comber, was a British comedian, singer and actor. He was born in Bury St Ed ...

Randolph Sutton John Randolph Sutton (24 July 1888 – 28 February 1969) was an English singer and comic entertainer in music hall and variety shows. Life and career Sutton was born in Clifton, Bristol. He made his first stage appearance in a concert at Bur ...

Billy Cotton William Edward Cotton (6 May 1899 – 25 March 1969) was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television ...

Jay Wilbur James Edward Wilbur (1898–1968) was a British bandleader and prolifically recorded musician identified with and influential in the era of British dance band music. Wilbur was born Wilbur Blinco in 1898 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He ...

Jack Hylton Jack Hylton (born John Greenhalgh Hilton; 2 July 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an English pianist, composer, band leader and impresario. Hylton rose to prominence during the British dance band era, being referred as the "British King of Jazz ...

, and

Leslie Sarony image:Leslie Holmes and Leslie Sarony circa 1934.JPG, A W.D. & H.O. Wills, Wills cigarette card from the 'Radio Celebrities' series, 1934; Sarony on right Leslie Sarony (born Leslie Legge Frye; 22 January 1897 – 12 February 1985) was a Britis ...

. In 1932 it was adopted as the theme song of '' The Canada Dry Ginger Ale Program'' on American radio, starring

Jack Benny Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success as a violinist on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with ...

. "Mary Livingstone Meets Jack Benny", ''Tralfaz'', 1 May 2016
Retrieved 5 January 2021 The song's refrain has remained well known: "Here we are again, happy as can be / All good friends r "...pals..."and jolly good company...".

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1931 recording by Jack Hylton and his Orchestra
1931 songs British songs {{1930s-song-stub