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Gifford Cliffe & George Formby:
🎵 A Farmers Boy
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Vintage Edmontonhttp://www.vintageedmonton.com/2013/11/vintage-edmonton-george-formby-comes-to.html
John SpitheadTurned out nice again
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Jon Hancock
'I went through a phase of playing Johnny Cash songs in the style of George Formby, for my own amusement. One night I was sat in the hotel room, singing [in Formby’s’ accent] “I’ve shot a man in Reno!” There was a bang on the wall and I realised it was like three in the morning. I felt like an absolute twat.'
— Ross Noble, interview in The Guardian
Reading Chas McDevitt's skiffle history. Published in 1997 and revised in 2012, it differs from Billy Bragg's book on the subject in two major ways: many of the key participants in the movement were alive and available for interview when it was first written; and McDevitt himself was one of them.
In the introduction he describes a perhaps unexpected link between George Formby and the beat groups, although given that the Beatles were known to be big fans it maybe isn't such a surprise after all.
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Andy Eastwood has some online ukulele workshops coming up, exploring George Formby's techniques:
A quick look at the Showtown museum exhibits from Andy Eastwood.
Typed up another ukulele songsheet, this one for a *completely clean* song by Ivor Biggun, his tribute to George Formby. You can watch the video to get the tune, if you're unfamiliar with it:
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