Hello, Well first of all welcome to my channel! I hope you enjoy the videos that i have uploaded. My names Sean and i'm 18 years old and i play the ukulele. I got interested by watching George Formby films and loved the part where George would get the uke out and start singing! Everyone's faces would immediately light up as soon as George hit the chord! I am a member of The George Formby Society and regularly attend the quarterly conventions now held at The Imperial Hotel.
If you would like to find out more about the society then visit the website: www.georgeformby.co.uk
Once again i hope you enjoy the selection of classic Formby clips that i have uploaded. Turned out nice again!
I like this...Paul Evans did a rock n Roll version of this, that was a big hit years later. I remember seeing George Formby movies when I was a kid. I loved his movies. wish we could see them again.
His wife was almost at her last (leukemia). Brave performance. From wiki. Beryl Ingham (1901 - 24 December 1960) was the wife and manager of singer/actor George Formby, as well as being a variety performer and champion clogdancer. She was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, the youngest daughter of John James Ingham and his wife Elizabeth Ann (née Jackson). At the age of 11 she won the All-England Step Dancing Title. Later she formed a dancing act with her sister May, calling themselves The Two Violets.[1] She met George Formby in 1923, while they were appearing in music hall in Yorkshire. They married in his hometown of Wigan the following year.[2][verification needed] The couple worked together as a variety act until 1932, when she became his full-time manager and mentor. In 1934, film producer John E. Blakeley, who had admired their double act, engaged them for work on a low-budget comic movie, Boots! Boots!, where Beryl's domineering manner on the set was noticed for the first time, especially by the teenage Betty Driver, with whom she feuded.[3] In later films, producer Basil Dean avoided visiting the studio during filming,[4][5] and director Monty Banks tried to get her banned from the set.[6] She made only two minor appearances in the Formby films. Beryl was an exceptionally shrewd businesswoman, under whose management George became the UK's highest paid entertainer, at up to £35,000 per performance. The Formbys went on a tour of South Africa in 1946; despite threats from the National Party leader Daniel Malan, George played to black audiences, and Beryl embraced a three-year-old black girl who had presented her with a box of chocolates. Malan had them thrown out of the country and was reported to have told them to "Never come back here again". Beryl replied "Why don't you piss off, you horrible little man?"[7] She continued to manage George's career until she developed leukemia; she died on Christmas Eve 1960 in Blackpool. George Formby died ten weeks after his wife.[8]
(Explosion) Barbarians flying in the air: AUHAAAUHHA Witch: We're gonna need more barbarians Hog Rider: Did someone said HOG RIDEEEEER! (Witch summons skeletons) ARRRGGH SKELETONS! (Pig Oinks)
I once met a old fella who told me he knew a story about George Formby when he helped the British in the war. it was about how he changed the lyrics of the song (mid battle field while bullets fly) to cheer up troops
I once met a old fella who told me he knew a story about George Formby when he helped the British in the war. it was about how he changed the lyrics of the song (mid battle field while bullets fly) to cheer up troops
For as cute and charming as he was, it's a shame he didn't get his teeth fixed better. Maybe his old lady didn't want him to be too good looking....😮 But I guess it didn't actually stop him from getting action, anyway. 😂 Love you George.🏁🏴🇬🇧
George was actually quite a cool dude Rode motorcycles as big and fast as he could get them , raced them too till the film compny stopped him. He went to South Africa and refused to play to segregated audiences
And not 1mm action adjustment , Formby mode , there was only one way that was Setting a uke up in GF mode when this great man used a uke,,,it was *Pick it up,and play*
Imagine George blaming himself for having a learning disability 😢 that's so sad. Plus he's having trouble breathing and talking so much, probably due to emphysema from his heavy smoking habit. God Bless George Formby ❤️💐🥰💖👼🌌🇬🇧🕉️we love you.
I can laugh when things ain't funny, hey hey hey hey Happy go lucky me Yes I can smile when I ain't got no money, hey hey hey hey Happy go lucky me It may sound silly, but I don't care I've got the moonlight I've got the sun I've got the stars above Me and my sweetie Well we both share a slappy go happy, happy go lucky love WELL! Life is sweet yes, sweet as honey, hey hey hey hey Happy go lucky me (lots of ukulele) Happy go lucky me (lots of ukulele) Happy go lucky me (lots of ukulele) Life is sweet yes, sweet as honey, hey hey hey hey Happy go lucky me It may sound silly, but I don't care I've got the moonlight I've got the sun I've got the stars above Me and my sweetie Well we both share a slappy go happy, happy go lucky love WELL! Life is sweet yes, sweet as honey, hey hey hey hey Happy go lucky me Ha ha ha ha ha happy go lucky me!
A legend and a very brave man aswell, he went to all the war fronts with the British forces during WW2 his wife Beryl, sometimes only yards from the fighting. George was bravely entertaining the troops. ❤
