[78-L] George Formby on the other side of the pond

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Surprisingly, for as much ukulele picking as Formby did, he did 
virtually no Hawaiian material. In fact I can't think of one Hawaiian 
tune he recorded.
Arthur Godfrey was another such artist, although he did record 4 and a 
half 78s of Hawaiian style material. The half is one tune out of 3 or 4 
he recorded asd part of a medley. Godfrey was very active in the 
promotion of Hawaii and donated chunks of money to Hawaii, for one 
public work or another, over his career.
Mal

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On 4/17/2011 5:20 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 4/17/2011 8:03 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> In fact George Formby was VERY popular here in Canada...as a
>> result there were a fair number of Col(C) Formby issues!
>> I don't know if Formby is included in any of the regular discographies;
>> however, I tend to recall he is/was...?!
> He's in Rust's Music Hall discography but probably not in other standard 78
> books. Formby appeared in Canada a number of times..I saw him at Maple Leaf
> Gardens, probably in 1956. He was also here in 1950 doing a benefit for
> Winnipeg Flood Relief and there's a CBC aircheck of him doing three songs.
>
> dl
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