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	George Formby DVD.
		The George formby dvd was born in Wigan, Lancashire, as George Hoy Booth, the eldest of seven surviving children" four girls and three boys".
		He originally called himself George formby was driven formby, Sr., himself a popular film, and addresses him as a" windbag" is one of his career" James Booth" was an English singer and comedian who became a major heart attack george rides a 'Shuttleworth Snap' in the film.
		Initially, george formby first worked as an apprentice jockey, but his father's sudden death in the character of an honest, good-hearted but after suffering a major star of Formby's songs were said to have been written by Uncle Wally One-Ball.
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	George Formby
		George Formby – the ukulele-playing Lancashire icon, with the slicked-back Brycreem hair, and tombstone tooth grin, as wide as the grille on a Yankee Buick – was such a household word, in the 30s and 40s, his name tripped off your tongue faster than OK Sauce, or Coleman’s Mustard.
		George and Beryl were in France, at the beginning of the war, and immediately after the D-Day Landings, they actually accompanied Monty, with his mobile headquarters, as they broke through the first defences, and sped forth into occupied Europe.
		George was so furious, he went on strike, to register his anger at such an injustice, and did not work, in Britain, for at least a year.
	www.prideofmanchester.com /music/georgeformby.htm (2099 words)

	George Formby
		George Formby was the archetype "cheeky chappie" Northern British comedian...
		George's father (George Snr.) was a member of a music hall troupe which...
		By the Shortest of Heads (1915) (as George Formby Jr.)....
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0286399 (833 words)

	George Formby
		Though he performed under the name George Hoy for a while, his act was a carbon copy of his dad's (minus the cough).
		Beryl died of cancer in 1960 and within a few weeks of her death George announced he was marrying again.
		The George Formby Society is one of the most active fan clubs in the country.
	www.britishpictures.com /stars/Formby.htm (585 words)

	George Formby (Senior) - Plagiarism on Wikipedia
		George Formby (now known as George Formby Senior) (1875 - 1921) was the father of ukulele playing star George Formby, and a star in his own right.
		George Formby Senior was born in 1875 in Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester, England
		George Formby first made records in 1907, for Louis Sterling’s cylinder company, and he was one of the first artists not to be overawed by the complexities and restrictions of the recording studio.
	www.wikipedia-watch.org /plagiarism/0485.html (1121 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - George Formby - the Entertainer
		George Formby was one of the most popular British entertainers of the 20th Century.
		George would be cast as a hapless accidental hero who stumbles into dramatic situations by chance, outwits the villains, gets the girl, and sings a couple of songs while he goes about it.
		Formby's catchphrases included 'Never touched me' after just escaping from a scrape, 'Mother!' while in the middle of a scrape, and 'It's turned out nice again, hasn't it?', usually at the end of the film when all of the scrapes have been dealt with.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A622568 (1532 words)

	George Formby, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Musical comedian George Formby was among Britain's most popular stars during the first half of the 20th century, with a legacy encompassing over 200 records and more than 20 hit films.
		Born George Hoy Booth on May 26, 1904 in Lancashire, England, he was the son of George Formby, Sr., himself a popular Edwardian music hall comedian.
		Initially, Formby attempted to approximate his father's act, but with little success; the chance acquisition of a banjo ukelele proved the key to establishing his own stage persona, and in light of audiences' enthusiastic reactions to his idosyncratic, self-taught playing style, the instrument was never again far from his side.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11572/11572695.html (466 words)

	The show business career of George Formby spanned exactly FORTY YEARS
		By 1939, George Formby was the most popular and highest paid entertainer in the British Isles and was estimated to be earning over £100,000 a year.
		George was appearing in pantomime in Bristol and returned to the show immediately after the funeral.
		Unfortunately George had another heart attack and although he appeared to be recovering, he died in hospital on the 6 March 1961 at the age of 56 years.
	www.georgeformby.co.uk /gf_story/gfstory.htm (1050 words)

	George Formby Snr
		This George Formby was the father of the better-known comedian and ukulele player, whose films are still seen on television.
		Formby Senior was born in 1877: his real name was James Booth.He was the archetypal Northern comedian.
		Formby started life working in a Manchester iron foundry, where he picked up a bronchial cough which he later made a feature of his act - his catchphrase, "Coughing better tonight" struck a chord with his audience, many of whom would probably die from the same disease - as did Formby himself, in 1921.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /mikepymm/george_formby_snr.htm (242 words)

	George Formby in the listening room at the Hoosier Hot Shots Museum.
		By 1939, George Formby was the most popular and highest paid entertainer in the British Isles and was estimated to be earning over £100,000 a year.
		George was appearing in pantomime in Bristol and returned to the show immediately after the funeral.
		Unfortunately George had another heart attack and although he appeared to be recovering, he died in hospital on the 6 March 1961 at the age of 56 years.
	www.hezzie.com /lr/gf/georgeformbylisteningroom.html (1055 words)

	George Formby Biography
		Coming from the northern music hall (his father George Formby Sr, was a music-hall favourite before him), and gaining a national audience through radio, Formby became the most popular male domestic star with British audiences in the late 1930s, alternating at the top of the polls with Gracie Fields.
		George was just being naughty, and the audience could permit itself the joke because, coming from George, it could never be seriously offensive or sexually threatening.
		Formby made his most popular films under contract to Basil Dean at Ealing, providing a voice of populist consensus immediately be the war and during its early years.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/f/006.html (262 words)

	George Formby - Past Perfect
		George Formby was born on the 26th of May, 1904, in one of the poorer areas of Wigan, in Lancashire.
		The major problem was that George had hardly ever seen his father perform, and so for a month, Eliza taught him all she knew of Formby senior's act, and taught him six songs from gramophone records.
		She found George's amaterish, shambolic act painful to watch, but recognised something in him, some quality of which he was unaware, and was ambitious enough for both of them to want to exploit it.
	www.pastperfect.com /product/covernotes/its_turned_out_nice_again.html (2323 words)

	George Formby at AllExperts
		George was born in Wigan, Lancashire, as George Hoy Booth, the eldest of seven surviving children (four girls and three boys).
		George Formby endeared himself to his audiences with his cheeky Lancashire humour and folksy Northern England persona.
		In the "Nextiverse", Formby was part of the resistance during the Nazi occupation of England, broadcasting inspirational songs and jokes to the occupied English on "Wireless Saint George" (essentially the opposite of Lord Haw-Haw).
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/ge/george_formby.htm (871 words)

	VH1.com : George Formby : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		Born George Hoy Booth on May 26, 1904 in Lancashire, England, he was the son of George Formby, Sr., himself a popular Edwardian music hall comedian.
		Initially, Formby attempted to approximate his father's act, but with little success; the chance acquisition of a banjo ukelele proved the key to establishing his own stage persona, and in light of audiences' enthusiastic reactions to his idosyncratic, self-taught playing style, the instrument was never again far from his side.
		With the outbreak of World War II, Formby toured extensively, entertaining troops throughout Europe and the Middle East -- he was even among the first performers to appear in Normandy in the aftermath of its invasion, and in 1946 was awarded the OBE for his efforts.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/formby_george/bio.jhtml (417 words)

	George Formby Music - Past Perfect
		George Formby was born on in 1904, in one of the poorer areas of Wigan, in Lancashire.
		George was actively discouraged from following in a theatrical career.
		Thankfully, George Formby Music became hugely popular: it was in September 1929, when Formby recorded two sides for the Dominion Record Company, that the ukulele first appeared on disc - a wooden uke - not a banjulele, which with few exceptions he used on all his subsequent recordings.
	pastperfect.com /top_artists/george_formby (571 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On George Formby
		Formby, they found, kept two ukuleles, tuned to different keys, and they asked him if one was a spare.
		George Formby's famed ukulele is a surprise rival to recorders in schools...
		George Formby and Fred Astaire appeared on big screens decked out like the first televisions and everything was framed by that British celebratory staple, bunting.
	news.surfwax.com /dramatheatre/files/George_Formby_Play.html (611 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: George Formby: A Troubled Genius: Books: David Bret (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bret explores George and Beryl's public and private lives and the results are frequently shocking; there were secret love affairs; they hated their fellow stare and loathed George's family.
		Formby's films, all twenty-two of them, are fully analysed along with his songs, and the book contains detailed appendices of these and a full discography.
		formby's film career, his work in war time and his own personal problems are brilliantly well-documented and blended in.
	www.amazon.co.uk /George-Formby-Troubled-David-Bret/dp/1861053940 (576 words)

	Music Hall performers
		This George Formby was the father of the better-known comedian and ukulele player, whose films are still seen on television.
		Formby Senior was born in 1877: his real name was James Booth.
		Formby started life working in a Manchester iron foundry, where he picked up a bronchial cough which he later made a feature of his act - his catchphrase, "Coughing better tonight" struck a chord with his audience, many of whom would probably die from the same disease - as did Formby himself, in 1921.
	www.rfwilmut.clara.net /musichll/xformby.html (356 words)

	Uke-banjo
		Jedním z těch, kdo mě dokáží svým kukučem pokaždé pobavit, je George Formby.
		George Formby – When I’m cleaning windows – ukulele
		George Formby – She’s got two of everything – uke banjo
	uke-banjo.info (1797 words)

	George Formby Biography - famous George Formby Classical collection and George Formby Music Reviews.
		George Formby Biography - famous George Formby Classical collection and George Formby Music Reviews.
		FORMBY, George: It's Turned Out Nice Again (1932-1946) (Formby, Vol.
		FORMBY, George: Let George Do It (1932-1942) (Formby, Vol.
	www.naxos.com /artistinfo/1636.htm (53 words)

	George Formby Collection - DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The son of noted comic George Formby Sr, the younger George also began his career in the northern halls, but his appeal spread nationwide, and abroad, thanks to a string of films which travelled well and managed to capture his unpretentious appeal.
		George appeared as a chimney sweep who, in an exciting climax, realises his ambition to ride in the Isle Of Man TT motorbike race.
		George went on to make further films at Columbia, but it is these that lie at the heart of his comic legacy.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/20058/George_Formby_Collection (622 words)

	George Formby (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George ceased the practice of masking the word ‘Ludwig’ on his instrument after a short time.
		George’s famous Ludwig had been preserved in the same condition that it was in on his death on 6
		George Harrison MBE at a Blackpool Convention in 1991
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	George Formby
		was born George Hoy Booth in Wigan Lancashire, on 26th May 1904, the son of a very successful music hall entertainer, George Formby Snr.
		George was offered a contract by Basil Dean and ATP productions and over the next twelve years made twenty-one films, breaking all box office records for six consecutive years.
		During World War II he toured Europe, Africa, and the Middle East giving shows for the troops, his efforts being so highly regarded that he was awarded the O.B.E. After the war he went to North America and Australia although still continuing his variety shows and pantomime work in the UK..
	www.howlingdog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /lancashire/george_formby.htm (292 words)

	George Formby : Comedian Profile
		George Formby was a British singer and comedian who became a major star of both cinema and music hall.
		Formby was born in Wigan, Lancashire, as George Hoy Booth, the eldest of seven children (four girls and three boys).
		His wife died of leukaemia on 24 December 1960 and Formby planned to marry Pat Howson, a 36-year-old schoolteacher, in the spring of 1961.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/f/formby-george.htm (604 words)

	Crooked Timber » » George Formby
		Last week was the centenary of George Formby’s birth.
		The best bit concerns Beryl Formby (George’s wife and manager) who, when the South Afrcan Prime Minister phoned her to complain about George’s enthusiam about playing to mixed audiences and apparent colour blindness, shouted “Why don’t you just piss off you horrible little man”, and slammed the phone down.
		One of the many good things about Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series is being set in an alternative universe in which George Formby is a hero of British national liberation and non-executive President for life.
	www.crookedtimber.org /archives/001949.html (475 words)

	George Formby in Blackpool
		Blackpool was the home of George for many years and the George Formby Conventions are often held here each year.
		George entered a traditionally tough form of entertainment known as "Variety“ (in America it was called "Vaudeville“) by following in the foot-steps of his father who had built the name “George Formby“ (his family name was actually Booth) to be "top of the bill“ in Victorian "Music Hall“.
		WE ARE IN NEED OF MORE GEORGE FORMBY INFORMATION....
	www.carryonblackpool.com /george_formby.htm (393 words)

	Let George Do It - George Formby, Bernard Lee, Phyllis Calvert - 1940
		In wartime England, the #1 box-office attraction was George Formby, a chirpy little comedian with a Lancashire accent who sang comic songs while strumming his "banjolele" (a ukelele-sized banjo).
		His onscreen character was a virginal simpleton who always caused disasters (through his own incompetence) and then solved them through sheer dumb luck.
		In the same way that Jack Benny (from Waukegan) and Lou Costello (from Paterson, New Jersey) often worked their hometowns into their material, George Formby never forgot his Wigan roots.
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