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Post by granny on Aug 6, 2017 21:34:52 GMT
Just watched a programme on BBC4 about George Formby, presented by Frank Skinner. It kept me interested right through. I hadn't realised how well George was regarded as a master player of the ukulele. I also hadn't realised that the comment "coughing better" was a catchphrase used by his father in his stage act when the poor man was suffering with TB.
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Post by Railroad17 on Aug 6, 2017 23:21:07 GMT
Just watched a programme on BBC4 about George Formby, presented by Frank Skinner. It kept me interested right through. I hadn't realised how well George was regarded as a master player of the ukulele. I also hadn't realised that the comment "coughing better" was a catchphrase used by his father in his stage act when the poor man was suffering with TB. The personal life was amazing.They left out the fact that he invented the George Formby grill with it's catch phrase "turned out nice again"
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Post by granny on Aug 7, 2017 8:09:11 GMT
Just watched a programme on BBC4 about George Formby, presented by Frank Skinner. It kept me interested right through. I hadn't realised how well George was regarded as a master player of the ukulele. I also hadn't realised that the comment "coughing better" was a catchphrase used by his father in his stage act when the poor man was suffering with TB. The personal life was amazing.They left out the fact that he invented the George Formby grill with it's catch phrase "turned out nice again" No they didn't, they denied that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 17:34:00 GMT
Hi All, granny Didn't he get the very first ban on auntie for being to suggestive or something in his lyrics ?
Geoff.
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Post by granny on Aug 8, 2017 18:36:43 GMT
Hi All, granny Didn't he get the very first ban on auntie for being to suggestive or something in his lyrics ?
Geoff. The sheet music for "With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock" is credited Words and Music by Harry Gifford and Fred Cliffe, copyright Lawrence Wright Music of London, 1964. George Formby sang this humourous ditty accompanying himself on the ukulele, but harmless though it seems, and although it nowhere comes close to rhyming "rock" with the obvious, the overzealous censor took umbrage to him strolling about the promenade with something small and sticky in his pocket, and in 1937 it was banned from BBC radio shows. It has to be said, this was not the first time Formby fell foul of the censor; previously his record label had ordered "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand" to be rewritten.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 18:45:00 GMT
Hi All, So by todays recording artists pretty tame the......
Geoff.
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