details for When I'm Cleaning Windows - George Formby

Verified listings:
• When I'm Cleaning Windows - George Formby
• The Window Cleaner - George Formby
• The Window Cleaner (When I'm Cleaning Windows) - George Formby

Written by:
• Formby/Gifford/Cliffe

Recorded:
• September 27, 1936 (original recording)
• January 21, 1950 (re-recording)

Released:
• 1936

Available on (*):
• 1936 78 rpm single (Regal Zonophone MR 2199; "When I'm Cleaning Windows")
• 1960 LP When I'm Cleaning Windows (Capitol T 6002; "The Window Cleaner (When I'm Cleaning Windows)"; Canadian release)
• 1998 CD Ha! Ha! 24 Great Comedy Songs (Prism PLATCD 443; "When I'm Cleaning Windows")
• 2002 CD Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes No. 10 (Demento Society, May 1, 2002; "The Window Cleaner")

Topics (not including words that are part of the title):
• peeping tom
• working

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• from the 1936/1937 film "Keep Your Seats Please"

general information about George Formby

Also credited as:
• George Formby Jr.

General type of music:
• British music hall

Real name:
• George Booth

Born:
• May 26, 1904

Died:
• March 6, 1961

Based in:
• England

Web sites:
• http://www.georgeformby.co.uk/

interesting facts (click to see playlist of show on which fact was mentioned, if applicable):
• England's most popular (and highest paid) entertainer in the mid-1930s
• played a banjulele, which has a neck and four strings like a ukulele, but a head like a banjo to make it louder

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