Английская Википедия:Fanlight Fanny
"Fanlight Fanny" is a song written in 1935 by George Formby, Harry Gifford and Fred E. Cliffe, and recorded by Formby in May that year.[1][2] Another notable version was released in 1962 by Clinton Ford.
Song information
The original recording by George Formby was released on Decca Records (F5569) on 29 May 1935.[3] The song also appeared in Formby's 1939 film Trouble Brewing,[4] in which it bore an additional verse.[1] It tells the tale of a tawdry, West End-based woman of a certain age, full with alcohol and shoplifted goods, trying to earn a living in a Soho night spot, where she is "Fanlight Fanny the frowsey night-club queen".[5]
The version recorded by Clinton Ford in 1962 had accompaniment by the 'George Chisholm All Stars'.[6] It also, with permission, had added new words written by Ford.[7] "Fanlight Fanny" was Ford's third UK chart hit and his most successful single, reaching Шаблон:Numero22 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1962. It spent ten weeks in that chart.[8][9] His album Clinton Ford, also known as Clinton Ford Sings Fanlight Fanny (1962), peaked at number 16 in the UK Albums Chart.[8][10]
Ford later recorded the Wally Lindsay-penned "Fanlight Fanny’s Daughter" (1963),[11] a track also released as a single, albeit with less success.[1] In 1968, on Ford's album Clinton The Clown (re-released in 1970 on Marble Arch Records), the song's character reappeared as "Fan-Dance Fanny", a renaming and re-recording which had a small change in lyrical content.[12] With the passage of six years, Fanny wore "dustbin lids on her chest" rather than her earlier "saucepan lids".[1]
Other uses
Formby's original version was used on the soundtrack to the 2008 horror film Chemical Wedding.[13]
References
External links
Шаблон:1930s-song-stub
Шаблон:1960s-pop-song-stub
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