Coming from the northern music hall (his father George Formby Sr, was a music-hall favourite before him), and gaining a national audience through radio, Formby became the most popular male domestic star with British audiences in the late 1930s, alternating at the top of the polls with Gracie Fields. Hollywood attempted to woo most other British box-office favourites of the period, including both Fields and Jessie Matthews, but not our George. Anyway here’s a little bit of the song that I'm sure you’ll all remember

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