[Dixielandjazz] Re: George Formby

[Grahame Parker]

I haven't heard the word "gormless" since Adam was a lad.
Grahame Parker
Cowboy Mandolinist






>From: PLadd36932@aol.com
>To: dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: George Formby
>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:25:02 EST
>
>Hi all,
>George Formby was an entertainer par excellence. His gormless Northener 
>act,
>which was the same character in all his films, was such that you really
>wanted to help him out of whatever unlikely situation the script had landed
>him. With his buck teeth he looked like a rather amiable horse.
>There were always a couple of numbers in his films when he played to a gang
>of `lads and lasses`., building up to mass singing and dancing scene. The
>films were mainly wartime and the venue was often a factory production 
>line,
>and army camp or an RAF hangar. He was always the unlikely hero, done down
>the dastardly villain but winning the girl in the end.
>Most of his songs had a slightly `smutty` subject,with an innuendo** built
>in, Grandpa`s Flannelette Nightshirt, `Me little stick of Blackpool Rock`
>etc.,
>I dont think he was a superb technician on the banjolele but with his
>faultless delivery and general good humour he could really put a song over.
>On stage he always had two of three instruments tuned to different keys. My
>tenous claim to fame is that my wifes uncle, who was no mean performer on 
>the
>uke, once played alongside George on the old Queen Mary
>
>**Innuendo. An Italian suppository.
>
>I know, I know, I am sorry. The debbil made me do it.
>
>Cheers
>
>PatL
>
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