Performance · Other credits
Fred Cliffe
Fred Cliffe is credited on 142 releases across 55 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2015 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
142
Pressings credited
55
Albums
7
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
Frederick Cliffe Howchin (11 April 1885 – 22 September 1957), known professionally as Fred E. Cliffe, was an English songwriter, best known for his work co-writing songs with Harry Gifford for entertainer George Formby. He was born in Liverpool, and by 1907 had started working in music halls as a lightning sketch artist. He moved to London, and by 1910 was working as a songwriter with Fred Godfrey and others. His greatest period of success as a writer came in the 1930s, when he teamed up with Harry Gifford to write some of George Formby's most popular songs. These include "Fanlight Fanny" (1935), "With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock" (1936), "When I'm Cleaning Windows" (1937), "It’s Turned Out Nice Again" (1939), and "Mr. Wu’s a Window Cleaner Now" (1939), some of which also included Formby's name as a co-writer. He was married three times, and died in hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, in 1957, aged 72, from myocardial infarction and coronary thrombosis.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
142 releases · 55 albums · active 1956–2015
- Performance · 388
- Other credits · 5
Studios: Chappell Recording Studios · Octagon Theatre · KMH Studios · The Roots Cellar, North Vancouver, BC
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- George Formby
- Various
- Alan Randall
- Gracie Fields
- Clinton Ford
- George Formby And His Ukulele
- 2InATent
- Charles Penrose
Around the web
See who really made the music.
Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.
Start your shelf →Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.