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Artist:George Formby
Label:  Edison Bell Winner
Country:UK
Catalogue:4409
Date:1926
Format:10"
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Community: 5 Own, 1 Wants
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
AGeorge FormbyJohn Willie, Come OnG FormbyRate
BGeorge FormbyI Was Always A Willing Young LadHargraves, DamerellRate


Notes

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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