As a child in the 30-s and 40-s I loved George Formby. I learned and could sing all his songs, I even had a toy Ukulele from Woolworths (altough I could not get a tune out of it). But then when I was sixteen in 1948 I saw him live at Leeds Empire and a was shocked to realise just how bad his stage act was. It did nothing for me at all or was it just that going of George was just part of growing up