" When I Clean Windows " is a comedy performed by Lancastrian comic, ukulele actor and player, George Formby. It first appeared in the 1936 film Keep Your Seats, Please . The song is credited as written by Formby, Harry Gifford and Frederick E. Cliffe. Formby performs a song on Ab at Keep Your Seats, Please . For a single release, the key is changed to Bb.
The song was so successful that George Formby recorded another version of the song titled "The Window Cleaner (No. 2)". This song uses an orchestration similar to the original version and it is about the more things that are seen in the window cleaning round.
Because of the excited lyrics of the song because it was banned by the BBC to be played on the radio. Director-General of the company John Reith stated that "if the public wants to listen to Formby singing his disgusting little songs, they should be content to hear it in theaters, not over the airwaves of the country"; Formby and his wife and manager, Beryl Ingham, were furious with the block on the song. In May 1941, Ingham told the BBC that the song was a favorite of the royal family, especially the Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby indicated that "I sang it before the King and Queen at the Royal Variety Performance". The BBC relented and began broadcasting the song.
The sales record was so successful that Regal Zonophone was awarded the first silver disk Formby for the sale of over 100,000 copies.
The dance mix of the song, the first eight-line sampling of Formby's original vocals from the first version, appeared on the UK Singles Chart in December 1994 by 2 in a Tent, the Amadeus Mozart and Andy Pickles (Jive Bunny/Hyperlogic). The video for this release features Mozart, Pickles and the Stars in Their Eyes David Clarke finalist as George Formby.
Video When I'm Cleaning Windows
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