Coronation St Theme Tune (Original)

The show's theme music, a cornet piece, accompanied by a brass band plus clarinet and double bass, reminiscent of northern band music, was written by Eric Spear and has been only slightly modified since its debut.
Coronation Street is an award-winning British soap opera. It is one of the longest-running television shows in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on Friday, 9 December 1960.
Since 1960, Coronation Street has featured many characters whose popularity with viewers and critics has differed. The original cast created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), Elsie Tanner (Patricia Phoenix) and Annie Walker (Doris Speed) as central figures.[9] These three women remained with the show for 20 years or more, and became archetypes of British soap opera, often being emulated by other serials, with Ena as the street's busybody, battleaxe and self-proclaimed moral voice;[10] Elsie as the tart with a heart, who was constantly hurt by men in the search for true love;[11] and Annie Walker, landlady of the Rovers Return Inn, who had delusions of grandeur and saw herself as better than other residents of Coronation Street.[12]

Coronation Street became known for the portrayal of strong female characters,[13] with characters like Sharples, Walker and Tanner, and Hilda Ogden, becoming household names during the 1960s.[14] Warren's programme was largely matrifocal, which some commentators put down to the female-dominant environment in which he grew up.[15]. Consequently, the show has a long tradition of hen-pecked husbands, most famously Stan Ogden and Jack Duckworth, husbands of Hilda and Vera respectively.

Only one character from the original episode remains, Ken Barlow (William Roache). He entered the storyline as a young radical, reflecting the youth of 1960s Britain, where figures like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and the model Twiggy were to reshape the concept of youthful rebellion. Though the rest of the original Barlow family were killed off, Ken has remained the constant link throughout 48 years of Coronation Street.
Stan and Hilda Ogden were introduced in 1964, with Hilda (Jean Alexander) becoming one of the most famous British soap characters of all time. In a 1982 poll, she was voted fourth most recognizable woman in Britain, after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales.[16] Hilda's best-known attributes were her pinny, hair curlers, and the "muriel" in her living room with three "flying" duck ornaments. Hilda Ogden's final episode on 25 December 1987, remains the highest-rated episode of Coronation Street ever, with nearly 27 million viewers.[17]

Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) first appeared in 1966, before becoming a regular in 1970, and went on to become one of the most famous Corrie characters.[18] Bet stood as the central character of the show from 1987 until departing in 1995, often being dubbed as "Queen of the Street" by the media, and indeed herself.
Coronation Street and its characters often rely heavily on archetypes, with the characterisation of some of its current cast based loosely on past characters. Blanche Hunt (Maggie Jones) embodies the role of the acid-tongued busybody originally held by Ena Sharples, Sally Webster (Sally Whittaker) has grown snobbish, like Annie Walker, and a number of the programme's female characters mirror the vulnerability of Elsie Tanner and Bet Lynch. Other recurring archetypes include the war veteran (Albert Tatlock, Percy Sugden), the bumbling retail manager (Leonard Swindley, Reg Holdsworth, Norris Cole), and the perennial losers (Stan and Hilda Ogden, Jack and Vera Duckworth, and Les Battersby-Brown).[20] However, former archivist and scriptwriter Daran Little cautions against characterising the show as a collection of stereotypes. "Rather, remember that Elsie, Ena and Co. were the first of their kind ever seen on British television. If later characters are stereotypes, it's because they are from the same original mould. It is the hundreds of programmes that have followed which have copied Coronation Street."

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[ldg1985]

this aint the original matey.  all copys of the original theme tune are nowhere near as clear as this and its a different version xx

[Jamie10004]

This isnt the original theme of Corronation Street.

[davidrollercoaster]

@RMCKIE I hope she never does can't act but its funny how she not in nothing else

[MarcZERO1980]

The orginal is much slower.

[RMCKIE]

I hope Tina goes back

[Scrabbler27]

at 38 sec, I think Tina looks very nice when she is wearing her white jeans and white shoes.

[ebutemetube]

Lyric:-

I've got no knickers on;

I've got no knickers on...

[BCJ1985]

This is not the original Corrie tune. The first episode on youtube will confirm that.

[daleksecman]

isn't it going to be there 50th anniversery at the end of 2010?

[purplemonzter]

i can't believe jack and rita !

omg, lmbo !

maria looks really cute, thooough. =]

[bhvictory]

I don't know if it's the last episode she appeared in but one of her final episodes was on the 1980 Coronation Street disc, released by Network DVD.