George Formby : Vol. 2-War And Postwar Years

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Sell date: 1/2006
Label: Jsp (UK)
Mfg's Catalog#: 1902
CDC Part#: 69484
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Full title is: War and Postwar Years


One of the most beloved British entertainers of the '30s won even more hearts entertaining troops far and wide during WWII. Here's his morale-boosting wartime work (including some wonderful live stuff) and his best postwar tracks: Swinging Along; On the Beat; Smile All the Time; Hold Your Hats On; Unconditional Surrender; Ordinary People ; his signature Chinese Laundry Blues CDs from a music-hall icon!

 
 Tracks and Sound Clips   Click here for the Windows Media player
 
Swinging Along - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Lad from Lancashire - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Lancashire Romeo - 3:17 Play the Windows Media clip
Imagine Me in the Maginot Line - 2:49 Play the Windows Media clip
Grandad's Flannelette Nightshirt - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
Mr Wu's a Window Cleaner Now - 2:47 Play the Windows Media clip
Count Your Blessings & Smile - 2:50 Play the Windows Media clip
Oh! Don't the Wind Blow Cold? - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
You've Got Something There - 2:42 Play the Windows Media clip
I Always Get to Bed by Hald-Past Nine - 3:13 Play the Windows Media clip
On the Wigan Boat Express - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Down the Old Coal Hole - 3:18 Play the Windows Media clip
I'm the Ukelele Man - 3:09 Play the Windows Media clip
On the Beat - 3:21 Play the Windows Media clip
Letting the New Year In - 2:58 Play the Windows Media clip
Bless 'Em All - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
Guarding the Home of the Home Guards - 2:42 Play the Windows Media clip
I Wish I Was Back on the Farm - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Formby Favourites for the Forces, Pts. 1 & 2 - 5:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Thanks, Mr Roosevelt - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Bless 'Em All, Pt. 2 - 3:11 Play the Windows Media clip
It Might Have Been a Great Deal Worse - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
You've Be Far Better off in a Home - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
I Did What I Could with My Gas Mask - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Delivering the Morning Milk - 2:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Emperor of Lancashire - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
You Can't Go Wrong in These - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
Auntie Maggie's Remedy - 3:25 Play the Windows Media clip
You're Everything to Me - 3:36 Play the Windows Media clip
I'd Do It with a Smile - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Left-Hand Side of Egypt - 3:23 Play the Windows Media clip
Who Are You A-Shoving Of? - 3:36 Play the Windows Media clip
Barmaid at the Rose & Crown - 3:13 Play the Windows Media clip
I Played on My Spanish Guitar - 3:15 Play the Windows Media clip
Swing Mama - 3:31 Play the Windows Media clip
George Formby's Crazy Record, Pts. 1 & 2 - 6:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Formby Film Favourites, Pts. 1 & 2 - 6:15 Play the Windows Media clip
Katy Did, Katy Didn't - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
Frank on His Tank - 3:06 Play the Windows Media clip
Smile All the Time - 3:17 Play the Windows Media clip
Out in the Middle East - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
Andy the Handy Man - 2:52 Play the Windows Media clip
They Laughed When I Started to Play - 3:22 Play the Windows Media clip
Talking to the Moon About You - 3:09 Play the Windows Media clip
Got to Get Your Photo in the Press - 3:22 Play the Windows Media clip
Mr Wu's an Air Raid Warden Now - 2:45 Play the Windows Media clip
Sally the Salvage Queen - 3:00 Play the Windows Media clip
Thirty Thirsty Sailors - 2:48 Play the Windows Media clip
Hold Your Hats On - 2:51 Play the Windows Media clip
Cook House Serenade - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
You Can't Love Two Girls at the Same Time - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Under the Blasted Oak - 3:24 Play the Windows Media clip
When the Lads of the Village Get Crackin' - 3:20 Play the Windows Media clip
When the Waterworks Caught Fire - 2:52 Play the Windows Media clip
Baby Show - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Home Guard Blues - 3:06 Play the Windows Media clip
Oh! You Have No Idea - 3:12 Play the Windows Media clip
Spotting on Top of Blackpool Tower - 3:01 Play the Windows Media clip
Sentimental Lou - 2:58 Play the Windows Media clip
British Isles Medley - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
American Medley - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
On the HMS Cowheel - 2:57 Play the Windows Media clip
Bunty's Such a Big Girl Now - 2:58 Play the Windows Media clip
It Serves You Right (You Shouldn't Have Joined) - 2:56 Play the Windows Media clip
If I Had a Girl Like You - 2:48 Play the Windows Media clip
Swim, Little Fish - 2:50 Play the Windows Media clip
Bell Bottom George - 3:07 Play the Windows Media clip
'V' Sign Song [Germanickly Speaking] - 3:06 Play the Windows Media clip
Old Cane Bottom Chair - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Our Fanny's Gone All Yankee [CD-ROM Track] - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
Unconditional Surrender - 2:50 Play the Windows Media clip
Blackpool Prom - 2:31 Play the Windows Media clip
Mr Wu's in the Air Force - 2:46 Play the Windows Media clip
Darling Young Man - 2:52 Play the Windows Media clip
I'd Like a Dream Like That - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
She's Got Two of Everything - 3:12 Play the Windows Media clip
Up in the Air & Down in the Dumps - 2:48 Play the Windows Media clip
Excerpt from 'Get Cracking' - 1:24 Play the Windows Media clip
You Don't Need a License for That - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Mad March Hare - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
It Could Be - 2:49 Play the Windows Media clip
We've Been a Long Time Gone - 2:32 Play the Windows Media clip
Auntie Maggie's Remedy - 2:49 Play the Windows Media clip
Leaning on a Lamp Post - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip
When I'm Cleaning Windows - 2:50 Play the Windows Media clip
Come Hither with Your Zither - 2:10 Play the Windows Media clip
Saving Up for Sally - 2:14 Play the Windows Media clip
Pleasure Cruise - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Ordinary People - 3:20 Play the Windows Media clip
Zip Goes a Million - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
It Takes No Time to Fall in Love - 3:28 Play the Windows Media clip
Nothing Breaks But the Heart - 3:23 Play the Windows Media clip
Do de O Do - 3:29 Play the Windows Media clip
Chineselaundryblues - 2:26 Play the Windows Media clip
Baby - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
You Can't Keep a Growing Lad Down - 2:52 Play the Windows Media clip
You Can't Keep a Growing Lad Down - 2:54 Play the Windows Media clip
It's No Use Looking at Me - 3:04 Play the Windows Media clip
John Willie's Jazz Band - 2:59 Play the Windows Media clip
There's Nothing Proud About Me - 2:49 Play the Windows Media clip
Madame Moscovitch - 2:53 Play the Windows Media clip
Sitting on the Sands All Night - 2:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Dare-Devil Dick - 3:05 Play the Windows Media clip
Ghost - 3:43 Play the Windows Media clip
Mother, What'll I Do Now? - 2:55 Play the Windows Media clip
Hitting the High Spots - 2:36 Play the Windows Media clip
Under the Blasted Oak - 3:21 Play the Windows Media clip
Oh! You Have No Idea - 3:14 Play the Windows Media clip
'V' Sign Song - 3:08 Play the Windows Media clip

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