You just have to watch this brilliant ukulele recording with a Hartlepool Power Station worker among its stars

You pick up your ukulele along with 26 others and create a smash hit on YouTube.

At least, that’s what Caroline Stewart, an operations engineer at Hartlepool, did when she suggested recording ‘When I’m cleaning windows’ with fellow members of the George Formby Society.

Caroline first picked up a ukulele nine years ago and has never looked back since.

She is now a key member of the George Formby Society and has been its chairman.

She said: “I’ve been a member of the George Formby Society for eight years, five of them as chairman. I joined the society after seeing a George Formby documentary by Frank Skinner who I have also met a few times since.

“I was also lucky enough to play at the Royal Albert Hall at the Queen’s 90th Birthday Concert in 2018.”

The society usually holds regular conventions in Blackpool.

But when this year’s convention was postponed because of the coronavirus, the players decided to hold their ‘meetings’ virtually using Zoom.

Caroline added: “We play together on Zoom and we have up to 57 on the call. I thought we could make a song as a group but I had no idea how to put it together.

“So our musical director Matt Richards organised the whole thing. He managed to get 27 of us to record the iconic George Formby song and then he edited it so it was perfectly synchronised.

“He put it out on YouTube and it has had thousands of views so far. Hopefully it has helped people smile in these strange times.”

To find out more about the George Formby Society, visit its website at https://www.georgeformby.co.uk/

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