The Music Box
- Thread starter Moxie
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Let's go way back in time when things were kept simple. I want to introduce one of my jazz favorites Fats Waller who had a a great carreer until he died in December 1943 only 39 years old from pneumonia. He started playin piano as 6 years old. Organ in beginning of the 1920es writing lots of songs. One of his hall of fame achievements is AIN'T MISBEHAVIN from 1929 - here from the film Stormy Weather
The other hall of fame hits was Honeysuckle Rose -also from1929 here with some history before he plays the tune
Enough of Fats Waller and on to an artist who was VERY corny in the 1930es and also banned by the BBC for provokative lyrics. He was the first popmillionaire in £'s. Well -guessed it yet? George Formby was his name
Take his window Cleaner and listen to the text. It's from 1937
But it was With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock who caught BBC censors here in modern tribute
There is a widespread George Formby society who try to reproduce all his songs year after year. Well hope you liked my journey down memory lane to the great masters
The other hall of fame hits was Honeysuckle Rose -also from1929 here with some history before he plays the tune
Enough of Fats Waller and on to an artist who was VERY corny in the 1930es and also banned by the BBC for provokative lyrics. He was the first popmillionaire in £'s. Well -guessed it yet? George Formby was his name
Take his window Cleaner and listen to the text. It's from 1937
But it was With My Little Stick Of Blackpool Rock who caught BBC censors here in modern tribute
There is a widespread George Formby society who try to reproduce all his songs year after year. Well hope you liked my journey down memory lane to the great masters
I did indeed. Thank you very much. I sang "Ain't misbehaving" & those George Formby songs with singers they had around town at the Leybourne 1940's weekend when I went. I also sung another famous George Formby song called "Leaning on a lamp-post". There was a scheduled sing-along in the church hall but they were charging £5 for it & I wasn't paying £5 for singing songs, some of which I knew when I already knew how to sing. Instead I looked around. There was a George Formby impersonator, other singers, a piped band & dance-classes. The dance-classes were free but I was naughty. I sung to the dance-class music but didn't dance. I was also naughty for following the piped band which I sung to. Later on, a music teacher went round town with 2 of her students, an accordionist & a singer. They got people singing along & weren't charging so I joined in. She had me singing "She'll be coming round the mountains when she comes", "The white cliffs of Dover", "We'll meet again", "Bless 'em all" & 1 of the easiest songs ever if not the easiest song ever "When the Saints come marching in".
I decided to share "Leaning on a lamp-post".
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Nice song. Thank you very much for sharing. I'm more familiar with Peter, Paul & Mary's version of this song though.
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Yes. I like John Denver too. My favourite of his is "Annie's song" though. I've sung it many times & had it sung to me.
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Ha, this takes me back to school days. I used to work in a restaurant kitchen for extra money and one of the chefs used to play this over and over.... it reminds me of preparing prawn cocktails, washing dishes and smoking cigarettes outside the back door of that place. Still love it. The commentary was of course, from the late great Richard Burton (Mr Liz Taylor) - a Welsh legend.
It reminds me of my Middle School days as our headteacher loved the 1 with the words "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to 1 they said but still they came." & Forever Autumn so we had to sing it in choir. We also got told about the reaction to it when it 1st came over the radio or wireless as it was called then.
