How can anyone not smile when listening to and watching Mr Formby! RIP❤🙏
@TheCATHYBBY
11 жыл бұрын
George Formby is the reason I bought a ukulele (which resulted in me meeting my boyfriend) I have a lot to thank George Formby and the ukulele for :)
@Doca
11 жыл бұрын
Loads of people have taken the piss out of him but he bleeds charisma, a true entertainer, much better than the shite on today.
@MegaStig25
4 жыл бұрын
So true. That's why we still want to see him 90 years on.
@glynnevans1851
3 жыл бұрын
@@MegaStig25 Hi, We surely do. George was Momentous and very underrated. This is my favourite number. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🕊🕊🕊
@martinsmith1538
Жыл бұрын
Damn right. Got all his films on DVD. Pure bliss to watch.
@yvonnejoyce3197
10 ай бұрын
Proper entertainment that made you laugh, sadly lacking today,
@EdLove
4 жыл бұрын
He was adorable! He's also where the early Beatles got their playful cheeky attitude from. Several of them played the uke.
@rugbybem
13 жыл бұрын
George Formby could always put a smile on peoples faces. Hell,during the period that he was the top entertainer in the UK it was what the people needed. Many artists like George and Vera Lynn did a fantastic job maintaining mora.l
@wildfire7250
Жыл бұрын
Love George to bits films music and Uke playing is very special and his solo blimey what a talent love watching him play and he's way before me I'm 50 nothing better what a talent how did he not get an obe
@Darryl1985
8 жыл бұрын
Love it when he breaks the fourth wall with a cheeky wink to the camera!
@crankbv1
13 жыл бұрын
l liked the fact that twice,George suddenly looked into camera to show his awareness of the cinema audience..a very rare thing for any actor to do,,in fact almost a taboo. The only other l can think of who did that was Ollie Hardy. A nice touch l thought.
@BOT101st
14 жыл бұрын
That little wink he does at the camera whilst he's doing the solo always makes me smile :D Great song!
@MD-sl3he
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love George Formby. I just have to smile listening to him.
@2100Rose
Жыл бұрын
As far as this version goes this has the sentimentality and the emotional sound like music does from my favorite eara the 1960's does . Love it . Fair play to you George . VIP
@alancox1444
Жыл бұрын
Pure genius. + it must great to be a solo act with no other muso's to worry about
@2100Rose
3 жыл бұрын
For me this is the best song that he ever did
@alandonkin
10 жыл бұрын
I was lucky. I saw my first George Formby films at the Saturday Morning Matinee back in the early sixties. I did not understand the smutty humour, of course, but I think it is a whole lot of fun now. It's like cheeky sea side post cards of course - not very subtle - but somehow quite harmless and inoffensive.
@nebula1919191
Жыл бұрын
Formby had an incredible grasp on those chord changes.
@rainblaze.
7 ай бұрын
Its more his right hand technique is where the true skill is to be had. As is so often the case up and down it gose why it ant noffen but a blur.. 🎼🎵me grandads flannelette shirt 🎶🎶
@nebula1919191
7 ай бұрын
@@rainblaze. Can you explain the innuendo about a flannelette night shirt? I don't get it.....
@rainblaze.
7 ай бұрын
@@nebula1919191 No no my good man. I'z Just spittin' facts innit. I am never one to ever imply innuendo. I alwsys make concerted effoerts to give it to you straight, and though it might be hard to take, i would make sure you got the point and took it no short order at that too. But there will be no innuendo ...... never
@nebula1919191
7 ай бұрын
@rainblaze. Aight me chav. I guess Napolean also fought in his night shirt, and that was the joke, innit?
@rainblaze.
7 ай бұрын
@@nebula1919191 If you say boi . if you say so ...... WTAF??!!!🤔🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@cjwaywell
3 жыл бұрын
What a lovely man
@czech-street-workout4193
6 ай бұрын
sad life poor guy
@lindamanas954
Жыл бұрын
Similar tube and harmonic structure to ‘ Aunty Maggie’s Remedy’ !
@jenniferjones188
3 жыл бұрын
Love this song of George its my favourite brilliant war time entertainer my parents loved him.
@jrg135
12 жыл бұрын
This song was written by Eddie Latta aka Bruce Williams, he one of George's best friends and also the undertaker that buried him.
@chemdah
14 жыл бұрын
Bravo George!
@gadgieschate
15 жыл бұрын
My wife thinks i'm a bit sad with my george formby cd / dvd collection but secretly I think she enjoys em to. The kids havent got a choice if they go in my car they listen to my music :) I like this version with the diferent verses.. thanks for posting Jim
@tombland10
13 жыл бұрын
i am 12 years old and at school all the other kids like all the modern music and i havnt heard of any of them. I hate modern music for me george formby and glenn miller do it for me. and i think i am staying this way because i like to be stuck in my own little time warp !
@Liessssssssssss
3 жыл бұрын
You must be 22 now, are you still stuck in your time warp?
@cautionTosser
3 жыл бұрын
You know I remember a lot of his songs (not because I was alive when he was popular), but because my parents just had a vast and eclectic record collection. Plus I love old movies. What was my point again? lol. Oh yeah. George. I only just googled him for the first time now. I had no idea he was such a late starter to the business of show. He seems so youthful in these videos. I know he doesn't look young, but he has the energy of a much younger man.
@sarahtaggart7397
4 жыл бұрын
OH LORDY LORDY ! 👍👍👍
@chamberpot969
11 күн бұрын
Exactly
@gmonkey808
12 жыл бұрын
the wink to the camera is inspired hahaha great stuff.
@Del-yv1qy
4 жыл бұрын
He was a one off,love it.
@Matthewmodeller229
10 жыл бұрын
+Letitia Donnoque I agree, I'm 13 and I LOVE this stuff!
@chickengeyzarproductions9032
9 жыл бұрын
***** You are incorrect
@AlexGreenwoodUkulele
9 жыл бұрын
***** Not quite sure how a song can be "useless", but I guess you just couldn't come up with anything else to say. Don't worry, it happens to some dense people sometimes: They sometimes blurt out irrelevant stuff. And I also don't see how it's boring, unless you don't understand the banjolele techniques that he's doing here. I know that only a few people studied him in Oxford, but I don't think that's what his music was for, it was for a laugh.
@Saartje05
9 жыл бұрын
+Greg Whitbread It´s briljant. Wakey wakey
@Saartje05
9 жыл бұрын
***** Sorry, that´s my computer changing the English word into Dutch. I don´t know why it´s doing that. It´s only with some words. Most of the time I notice it, I didn´t this time. Should be brilliant of course. (stupid thing changed it again)
@andrew80s
8 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. + Greg Whitbread I'm not quite sure why if you don't like it you've not gone and found something you do like? George was cleverer than he was given credit for.
@FleshEatingZombie666
12 жыл бұрын
my favourite formby song. love it
@Londonfogey
9 жыл бұрын
Hehee turned out nice again!
@CapriUni
11 жыл бұрын
That bit of winking at the viewer reminds me of a comic pictorial motif alluded to in Shakespeare: a picture of two jackasses (or two village fools/clowns) with the caption: "We Three" -- as if the person looking at the picture were completing a circle of friends. I wonder if that's a particularly English/British type of humor that's survived down the ages...
@danielhughes2014
3 жыл бұрын
I think that's exactly it, this high culture turned into 'popular culture', turned out nice again!
@CapriUni
3 жыл бұрын
@@danielhughes2014 'Course, in his own time, Shakespeare *was* the popular culture. It was only after his rediscovery after the Restoration that his work became associated with the aristocracy.
@essexnana91
12 жыл бұрын
Wow.what memories this brings back. George was so great..a wonderful showman.Wish we had entertainers like that these days...(sigh) England seems further from Calif. than ever when I see this.....
@mallen88
2 жыл бұрын
The Royle Family brought me here. Brilliant stuff 👍
@duffymoony
2 жыл бұрын
Absolute legend and uke player supreme. Try and play his lines, let alone his solos.
@maureenstaniforth4493
9 жыл бұрын
Good old george
@letitiadonnoque4562
10 жыл бұрын
I dunno why but I'm only 13 and I seem to prefer '20s, '30s, '40s and '50s music better than the modern stuff. I've never really been a fan of rap or the club music with its computerised, annoying beeps. I belong in another time!
@KaMikaZeno
4 жыл бұрын
And it just keeps getting worse and worse
@matteverall943
4 жыл бұрын
Dude listen to filthy frank he makes some good 30s music 👌
@2100Rose
3 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with that . Where music is concerned keep an open mind . As it goes my favourite decade for music is the 1960's yet I was not born until 1969 . When it seemed to come into fashion back in the late 1980's for me it was thank god for that . However that being said with an open mind there can be some good stuff accross the board , both era and type .
@jongenboren
3 жыл бұрын
George inspired chas and dave. Get on it.
@geraintlewis1609
3 жыл бұрын
Its simple but catchy. Perfect combo.
@mkcwebmaster
11 жыл бұрын
In this video, you could almost believe it was all done live because the lip syncing is so precise, however if you look carefully just after 2:26 George mouths the word "shirt" a little too late, then the next line (in the same shot) he is back in close sync. So he is miming. It is a good question though, it's perfectly possible to sing "live" over a backing track in a film.
@jeanlunt2493
10 жыл бұрын
Hubby's party piece.
@Blossom1948
12 жыл бұрын
Good old george you can't beat the oldies although they make me sad sometimes reminds me of my lovely mom and dad and the fabulous times growin up had to laugh at gadgieschate.....if the kids go in my car they listen to my music!....ha ha that's the way to do it!
@mariefrances9430
2 жыл бұрын
Who else is here because of The Royle Family 😂😂
@billybob2mates
11 жыл бұрын
boyakabo85 If you are still watching this. There is a difference between a male nightshirt and a ladies nightie. He says in the song I has a tail. This is the longer piece of the shirt at the back and one at the front. A nightie is level all round it.
@hanson666999
13 жыл бұрын
This is awesome :-D love Formby
@mkcwebmaster
13 жыл бұрын
@tombland10 - good for you. I've been stuck in a time warp all my life too (although not as far back as your good self). I was into Buddy Holly, then got into the Beatles, and several classic rock bands that are now long gone. I was listening to AC/DC's Back In Black album (1980) yesterday. Most modern music is awful.
@andreedowns4561
10 ай бұрын
I HEARD ..HE NEVER WORE IT 😮
@mangasky7
2 ай бұрын
Who knew this song inspired the opening lines of Bowie's Rebel Rebel?
@mkcwebmaster
15 жыл бұрын
Good luck. It's when you learn to play the songs that you really descover how different they all are. Different chord patterns ... but yes there are similarities definitely.
@sarahjaneheckscher6737
3 жыл бұрын
Believe me the syncopated rhythm is difficult and the split stroke is hard to pick up but once you get it, you are on a whole new level.
@mkcwebmaster
11 жыл бұрын
Perhaps it means they lifted the shirt to take a peek :)
@manxie777
10 жыл бұрын
Well spotted!
@mkcwebmaster
13 жыл бұрын
@Nathanharkey many are released on DVD, you can get them from Amazon for example. Avoid cheap offers on eBay, they are very poor quality.
@japroctor
15 жыл бұрын
What can I say fantastic regards John
@chaosnexxus9255
2 жыл бұрын
Jim Royle brought me here.
@geoffmenzer
11 жыл бұрын
I loved Formby and his playing and songs.However,he wrote not a note or a word of any of them.He 'bought them" for 5 or 10 pounds,via his wife Beryl who was the business woman,and all public singing rights were reserved to him only.So it was only 3 years after he'd died that Alan Randall was asked by the publishers to perform them in public to keep the royalties flowing.To see the BEST player today see Andy Eastwood on youtube,especially William Tell Overture His right hand is the best ever!
@susanjewitt8783
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. Andy Eastwood is fantastic.
@xlilmisssunshinex5264
3 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤
@Phaedrax2
12 жыл бұрын
@Nathanharkey With success of the Sainsbury ad, it would be great to have revival on TV of George's films.
@crankbv1
13 жыл бұрын
@cantleysugar You're right,of course. I had forgotten dear old Eric Morcambe also used the camera to great effect. l remember reading an article by a film historian who commented that Ollie Hardy was one of the very first to involve the audience by his knowing look into camera in recognition that they were out there looking in. A brilliant way to connect,but one frowned upon by the early film makers.
@Lanabella112
10 жыл бұрын
@crankbv1 Frankie Howerd used to do it too.
@jsnbeat
11 жыл бұрын
in the solo and all his triples are a couple of times out of time with the hand? still marvelously done.
@mkcwebmaster
14 жыл бұрын
Mine too.
@yourliver1
15 жыл бұрын
its funny how all his songs are basically the same. I cant wait til I learn to play one, cause I'll instantly know 20 more. It's going to be like a Formby quantum leap
@kingboby12345
15 жыл бұрын
love you rules :-)
@yallgeekin7036
Ай бұрын
Did you hear George pronounce “that” in “we haven’t got time to do all that”
@mkcwebmaster
13 жыл бұрын
@boyakabo85 - Perhaps they lifted the nightshirt up!
@tombland10
13 жыл бұрын
@Atlantisfair34 Thanks ! It makes it hard for me to make friends at school because they think i am weird but i am still not put of by that !! :)
@LL-uw6sm
2 жыл бұрын
Brillliant..when the country had a bit of balls..
@maureenstaniforth4493
9 жыл бұрын
I want a ukeley ive spelled that wrong
@tombland10
13 жыл бұрын
@mkcwebmaster i totally agree on your modern music views haha
@gmonkey808
12 жыл бұрын
@CLASSICMONSTERGUY95 Its a bajolele. Not sure of spelling. Its a mini banjo with ukulele set up ie g c e a.
@mkcwebmaster
11 жыл бұрын
No need to be rude, it was a fair question.
@Matthewmodeller229
10 жыл бұрын
Is it a bit like 'With my Little Ukulele in my Hand'? I've only just got the jokes and have known it for over a year.
@1meerkatmanor
11 жыл бұрын
ok i have asked this question before but never got a answer so here goes again did he sing the songs live in the film or was it dubbed on i would love to know over to you george formby fans this is a gen question no trolling
@gmonkey808
12 жыл бұрын
@CLASSICMONSTERGUY95 Sorry m8. Just understood what you meant and I dont know what 'make' it is sorry.
@tombland10
12 жыл бұрын
@CLASSICMONSTERGUY95 Abbott Monarch snr.
@quarkwrok
13 жыл бұрын
@boyakabo85 'I've been and had a quiz and I've found out what it is By his grandad's Flannelette shirt'. 'By' as in 'beside'. If there was nothing by the shirt he'd be a girl!
@laurapritchard3831
2 жыл бұрын
My Secret Crush/GF whoops🙄
@animateangus
12 жыл бұрын
What uke is he playing here? I mean what make of uke.
@mikaeljvabom67
6 жыл бұрын
What kind of hat does George have
@DSteinman
8 ай бұрын
I DON'T GET IT MAN I'M TOO AMERICAN DOES HE MEAN BALLSACK?
@greenmorris37
11 жыл бұрын
Innuendo maybe?
@animateangus
13 жыл бұрын
@tombland10 I think i am in the same time zone as you, I am only 15 and I detest this modern rap crap. George Formby and all the 50s doo wop music is for me! Also try Arthur Askey hes like Formby!
@holmes5517
5 жыл бұрын
No! Askey is so irritating
@MegaStig25
4 жыл бұрын
Where's me washboard?
@fuckyouagaintoday
11 жыл бұрын
Formby frequently used one word instead of another. Perhaps in those days they were a bit smarter than you. Everyone knew exactly what he meant!
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