George Formby
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label: George Formby jr. @de
label: George Formby, Jr. @es
label: 조지 폼비 @ko
subject: Category:English male comedians
subject: Category:British novelty song performers
subject: Category:Burials in Cheshire
subject: Category:Music in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
subject: Category:English jockeys
subject: Category:English banjoists
subject: Category:Comedians from Lancashire
subject: Category:1961 deaths
subject: Category:Actors from Manchester
subject: Category:Male actors from Wigan
subject: Category:Actors from Lancashire
subject: Category:British music hall performers
subject: Category:British ukulele players
subject: Category:English Roman Catholics
subject: Category:British Home Guard soldiers
subject: Category:20th-century English male actors
subject: Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
subject: Category:English male film actors
subject: Category:1904 births
subject: Category:20th-century English comedians
subject: Category:English comedy musicians
image: George Formby's house - Geograph 3380229.jpg
image: George Formby - Blue Plaque, Inner Promenade, Lytham St Annes.jpg
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source: – Banned by the BBC: "The Window Cleaner", second recorded version
source: – "With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock":
source: – Formby on his stage persona.
source: banned by the BBC?
source: – Basil Dean, the head of ENSA, on some of Formby's work with the organisation.
source: – Formby on his suggestive lyrics.
quote: I said well if you're drowning I don't want to lose
quote: A girl while bathing clung to me—my wits I had to use—
quote: "You know, some of the songs are a bit near. But they'll take them from me in evening dress; they wouldn't take them if I wore baggy pants and rednose".
quote: It's a good job I don't wear a kilt,
quote: "To overcrowded flats I've been,
quote: Every day, wherever I stray, the kids around me flock;
quote: My little stick of Blackpool rock"
quote: When I'm cleaning windows!"
quote: Sixteen in one bed I've seen,
quote: "Standing with his back to a tree or a wall of sandbags, with men squatting on the ground in front of him, he sang song after song, screwing up his face into comical expressions of fright whenever shells exploded in the near distance, and making little cracks when the firing drowned the point lines in his songs".
quote: "I'm just a clown without the make-up, the circus clown who magnifies the reactions of ordinary people to the things that happen around them".
quote: 'Cos when I pulled it out I pulled my shirt up as well.
quote: For they admire the way I'm built,
quote: "With my little stick of Blackpool rock
quote: With the lodger tucked up in between,
quote: In my pocket it got stuck I could tell,
quote: When I'm cleaning windows! Now lots of girls I've had to jilt,
quote: Along the promenade I stroll;
quote: She cried I'm drowning and to save me you won't refuse;
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name: George Formby
description: brittisk sångare, musiker, skådespelare och komiker @sv
description: English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian (1904–1961)
description: كوميديان من المملكه المتحده @arz
description: aisteoir Sasanach @ga
description: anglický herec, zpěvák, skladatel písní a komik @cs
description: attore, cantautore e suonatore di banjo inglese @it
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description: musicien, comédien et acteur britannique (1904-1961) @fr
description: actor, cantante y comediante inglés @es
description: pemeran laki-laki asal Britania Raya @in
description: britischer Schauspieler @de
description: engelsk sanger, musiker, skuespiller og entertainer @da
description: Brits acteur, zanger en komiek (1904–1961) @nl
description: United Kingdom baaŋa ŋun nyɛ doo @dag
description: piosenkarz i aktor brytyjski @pl