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| Track | Artist | Title | Composer | Rating |
| A | George Formby | John Willie, Come On | G Formby | Rate |
| B | George Formby | I Was Always A Willing Young Lad | Hargraves, Damerell | Rate |
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9971
9972
Both tracks recorded June 11, 1926.
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| Peter Denmark 16th Mar 2023 | Hi Member of the George Formby Society and Ukulele Banjo player for many years here. I can state categorically this is indeed George Formby Jnr, on one of 3 78s he recorded in June 1926, singing his late father's material. The other two on the Winner label are 4409 (John Willie, Come On / I Was Always a Willing Young Lad) and 4437 (The Man Was a Stranger to Me / Rolling Around Piccadilly). | |
| mrrk50 18th Sep 2022 | ||
| Dean Detroit 7th Mar 2022 | Both tracks recorded 11 June 1926. | |
| mister_tmg 12th Mar 2015 | This was George Formby Junior's third release. His first two don't seem to have been added here. | |
| TheJudge 9th Sep 2014 | It wasn't a gimmick, it seems. He suffered from a lung condition (which eventually killed him). | |
| Strawberry_Lynn 9th Sep 2014 | George Senior's gimmick was a cough as he was about to sing, George Junior's was of course, his ukulele. This recording has neither, as I believe that it was before George Junior took up that said instrument. However, it sounds like George Junior to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vZFIKHgGaE | |
| RadnaNotions 13th Jan 2014 | I'm sure people knew that Formby Snr had died, but there was a lot of re-releasing of material back then. (Although admittedly that was less true by 1926 than it had been a few years earlier.) I wouldn't be surprised if a few people bought this believing they were buying the original hit by the original artist. (Like anyone who's foolishly bought a sixties compilation CD without looking closely at the sleeve notes and found arrangements awash with synths played by perms.) | |
| TheJudge 12th Jan 2014 | I think it's more likely that they assumed that the public knew that Formby Snr. had died some years before. Formby Jnr. apparently did a lot of his old man's material in the early part of his career in order to stop other performers from claiming it for themselves. | |
| RadnaNotions 12th Jan 2014 | The song was written (and recorded) by Snr. Given that, you'd have thought they might have distinguished on the label between Snr in the writing credit and Jnr as the performer. It's almost as if they were deliberately avoiding informing the uninformed... | |
| Strawberry_Lynn 12th Jan 2014 | It probably is 'Old Halibut Face.' George Formby Senior died on 9 February 1921, aged 45 | |
| Whyperion SUBS 5th Feb 2013 | Thanks, its just that one cannot trust implictly everything on the net ( or in books , papers , diaries , memories , physical objects ) I have taken the discography date as the issue date for this record. | |
| TheJudge 5th Feb 2013 | No, it's old (young) halibut-face himself, in one of his earliest waxings: Discography. | |
| Whyperion SUBS 5th Feb 2013 | I Assume this is George Formby (Senior). I assume date around 1925 from other cat nos , but happy for others to enter correct release date | |
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