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On the Wigan Boat Express

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"'On the Wigan Boat Express'" is a comic song written by George Formby, Harry Gifford and Frederick E. Cliffe. Formby recorded it on 4 August 1940 for Regal Zonophone Records. It tells the story of, and goings-on aboard, a boat train express heading for Formby's hometown of Wigan in Lancashire. Like several other of Formby's songs, and indeed comic routines by his father George Formby Snr, it maintains and develops the running joke that Wigan is a seaside town rather than an inland, industrial centre, and like Blackpool, has a pier albeit on a canal (the Leeds and Liverpool Canal). It is filled with the sort of sexual innuendo that was a hallmark of Formby's songs.Richards p. 194

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Bibliography

* Richards, Jeffrey. 'The Age of the Dream Palace'. I.B. Tauris, 2010.

Category:British songs

Category:1940 songs

Category:George Formby songs

Category:Culture in Lancashire

Category:Songs written by George Formby

Category:Songs written by Fred E. Cliffe

Category:Songs written by Harry Gifford (songwriter)


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