I love George Formby. He is THE best. My Dad used to cut his hair before the war and he used to tip my Dad a shilling, when Dad's wages was only seven bob a week. (Dad started out as the lather boy at Myett's hairdressers opposite the Music Hall in St Helens.

The character he played in his films - the naive , but lucky idiot is a treasured part of Lancashire folklore. Treasured and honoured by the Lancashire Dialect society.

No one has equalled his ability to accompany and do astonishing solos on the banjo uke - or his way with a comic song. Despite being the highest paid filmstar in England - he risked his life to entertain troops in the front line during the war.

Just what do you want from a human being.... maybe its you with the problem, pal...! Racist my ass. And for my money he plays those chord changes with more grace than any of the ragtime guitarists. Check it out - Cleaning windows is more or less the same chords as Blind Blake's Too Tight Rag.

Perhaps his cardinal sin is that he sings in his uncouth Northern working class accent instead of being a southerner pretendinng to be an 18th sailor.

Butter and Chees and All - the cheese melts - very funny. The people who laugh at that, are the kind of exhibitionists who laugh loudly at the jokes in Shakespeare to show that they're clever enough to have understood the verbose twit. Its not funny, hardly bears repetition. Bout time, someone said it.