From the Winter 2016 issue of Ukulele | BY KAREN PETERSON.

George Formby, When I'm Cleaning Windows (1936) This was labelled "smutty" by the BBC. George Formby OBE (born George Hoy Booth, 26 May 1904 – 6 March 1961) was a Lancastrian singer-songwriter, comic and film star who had his biggest hits in The '30s.Real name George Hoy Booth, he inherited the stage name from his father, who was a music hall comic. He wanted to train horses. George Formby was born George Hoy Booth at 3 Westminster Street, Wigan, Lancashire, on 26 May 1904.He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to James Lawler Booth and his wife Eliza, née Hoy, although this marriage was bigamous because Formby Sr was still married to his first wife, Martha Maria Salter, a twenty-year-old music hall performer.

Every year the Winter Gardens in Blackpool sells out for the George Formby convention. As a young man, George Formby Jr. had no ambitions to become the UK’s highest-paid entertainer. In the 1930s and early 1940s he became the No.2 box office star in Britain after Gracie Fields. He starred in more than twenty films and had numerous best-selling records. Instead, his mother shoved the 19-year-old into show business just a few weeks after the death of his father, George Sr., a well-known music hall performer in the early 1900s, whose shtick with a cane was …

The Beatles adored him, the late and great Frank Sidebottom quite possibly based his act on him and his catch phrases are so much part of the parlance that everyone has forgotten where they came from. Why George Harrison is the coolest Beatle. ... the identities of the four Beatles appear to be. He often mixed comedy into his songs together with a healthy dose of Getting Crap Past the Radar. [6] George Harrison is said to have bought one of George’s ukes, and played it at the very end of the Beatles 1995 studio recording of Free As A Bird. George Formby was born George Booth Jr in Wigan, Lancashire in 1904. The video of the song ends with ‘Formby’ onstage (played by Formby impersonator Alan Randall) [7] , seen from behind, with his little dog, playing his trademark final chords to a song.

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