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Formby's father, George Sr George Formby was born George Hoy Booth in 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, [1] although this marriage was bigamous because Booth was still married to his first wife, Martha Maria Salter, a twenty-year-old music hall performer. [2]
British musician George Formby with his trademark banjo ukulele, entertaining British troops in France, 1940. The banjo ukulele was the instrument played by British comedian George Formby (1904–1961), who developed his own style of playing in accompaniment to his comic songs. His name is associated with the instrument more than that of any ...
An advertisement from The Burnley News, May 1921 for George Hoy. Formby appeared on stage in numerous variety and music hall performances, although no full record exists. He appeared in variety shows and concerts for troops with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) during the Second World War, [4] as well as in regular winter pantomime in the 1950s, Babes in the Wood at the ...
"When I'm Cleaning Windows" is a comedy song performed by Lancastrian comic, actor and ukulele player George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please. The song was credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe. [1] Formby performed the song in A♭ in Keep Your Seats, Please. For the single release ...
British singer and comedian George Formby was a ukulele player, though he often played a banjolele, a hybrid instrument consisting of an extended ukulele neck with a banjo resonator body. Demand surged in the new century because of its relative simplicity and portability. [15]
George Formby (1904–1961) was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer.
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov's celebrated play The Twelve Chairs gets the George Formby treatment in this sprightly musical comedy. Taking time to intone such ukulele classics as "When I'm Cleaning Windows", Formby exhibits a bit more nous than usual, as he and girlfriend Florence ...
The split stroke is a style of playing the ukulele which is peculiar to the George Formby style of playing. [1] It is a syncopated rhythm where the player will strike all of the strings, and then on the return, catch the first string, and then before starting again hit the last string: (Example is the chord 'C') 3..3 0 0 0..-..0