I grew up.listening to George Formby. I loved his songs & his ukr. Amazing! Brings back.such happy memories!

Rest in peace George formby 1904-1961

Its nice being able to listen without a large orchestra behind him obscuring his great ukele chops

I didn't know it was possible to play the ukulele so well. Richard Thompson said "People think I'm kidding when I say my right-hand technique is influenced by George Formby, but it's true."

The Queen Mother favorite song. She asked him to perform it three times.

Fantastic, thank you George.

What an amazing talent!

Loved his scat, too ❤️

Young man from Wigan. Love him.

Jesus... This really is HD. *I love you, George Formby.*

Glad he,s remembered so fondly

I love my music particularly indy and punk but I also love George and his catchy tunes not to mention his clever,witty lyrics not unlike Morrissey really. Also George was a humanitarian as proven on his tour of South Africa when he cancelled it on account of being asked to perform in front of segregated audiences apart from one show he did in front of a an all black audience which he finished by picking up a young black girl who came on stage to present him with a bunch of flowers and hugging and kissing her on the cheek which made the audience love him even more and cemented his popularity with black audiences as well as his traditional white working class fans. You have got to love him just for that act if nothing else.

Stars in Their Eyes took me here

George once said that he only knew a few chords, so he'd have Ukes tuned to various keys and swap them in and out accordingly. Actually, he was probably being humble...Ukes and Banjoleles were (and are!) notoriously hard to keep in tune, and intonation could get suspect the further you ventured up the next This way, George maintained tuning stability, as well as being able to use his split strum and hammer-on techniques using his favourite shapes...which would have been impossible had he played it in another key!

Wonderful, just wonderful 👏👏👏👏👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Nice to see George perform, thanks for posting!

I was looking for this....Thanks for uploading

He is sooooo cute!

Interesting thing is that Weird Al must have been a fan of this tune since he used the same rhythm for his song, "This Is The Life", which was the main theme for 1984 comedy film, "Johnny Dangerously", that was set in the 1930s.

They showed this whole movie a couple of years ago on TCM. I happened to remember the George Formby name from a James Herriot book.

The music teacher was Edith Stamp Taylor , was also in The Wicked Lady with Margaret Lockwood 👍

George Formby, you (annoyingly popular) LEGEND. I literally cannot be seen with my Ukulele without someone mentioning your name, specifically requesting this song - haha! Now I must learn the ways of the window cleaner... argh! @Duncan Automatic Stop - awesome footage great share, thanks a lot!

I use to sing along to this song when I use to play eye toy the window cleaning game

The Eminem of his day.

Brilliant while funny

My grand parents were children’s back then

"If you've got anything in you, I shall be able to bring it out..." 😂😮😅

love ya Sarah.

Bullock rocked the cover version

2000s kids from playing eye toy 🤝 the elderly

Leigh's finest!

Does anyone know just how in the hell he was able to keep two separate beats on either leg?!

1:47 music starts

Odd front door - no door knob, just two locks.

Loved it = ) What film is it from?

Classic

good song hahaha

That was so funny

Does anyone know what movie this is I'm trying to look it up now but nothing immediately pops up

Funny Song🥂

anyone got the tab for this?

She's a little over dressed for a music teacher!

I have a neighbour he's now 82 who used to go to clubs singing George's song wore a wig had a ukulele very antisocial nasty man well one day he accused my son of breaking into his shed he did not so one night I thought I'm not having this I put his front window through by the way I'm talking when I was in my 30s I'm now 74 my neighbour was in his 40s I thought you won't be cleaning that window again my son got arrested for theft and criminal damage he was innocent I went to the polcestation said it was me who broke the window they said go home mum lol and yrs later who's my neighbours best friend me we both still live 8n the same St I told him Terry it was me who put your window in all he said was you little bugger 😂

25 guineas?! That's a lot of money for music lessons.

Why did the British have better cameras than us in 1936?

After the SA affair the president tried to warn them of for playing to Black audiences, his wife replied “Piss off you horrible little man”

TOM MCHA NN SIX STORYS UP. FIRST DAY.