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Thread #140335   Message #3246861
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
30-Oct-11 - 05:15 AM
Thread Name: Do Brits remember George Formby?
Subject: RE: Do Brits remember George Formby?
I remember an appearance by Tessie O'Shea on the Wheeltappers and Shunters Club where she had the entire audience strumming away on paper bag ukuleles. Easy to make, just take a brown paper pag, scrunch up the open end into a sort on neck, and strum away on the wide end. I taped it off Granada Plus (what later became ITV 3 I think) which used to show old episodes of W&SC on a daily basis a ten years back & more. A fascinating window into a long vanished world, where through the heavy haze of fag smoke the spectre of Johnny Ray would materialise and sing The Little White Cloud that Cried. Colin Crompton's interuptions as 'The Chaiman' were part of British folklore. One such was the famous 'bingo routine' where the entire audience shouted 'House!' at once, whereupon Crompton drawled: "We must have a word with t'printers again."