Awesome Music / The Wind in the Willows (1983)

• The main theme is an instrumental melody that is haunting, beautiful, relaxing and harmonious all at once.
• The television series theme. It's the same instrumental melody as the film's main theme, but it is also accompanied with lyrics wonderfully sung by Ralph McTell.
• All of the songs Kenneth Grahame wrote in his novel are all beautifully and faithfully adapted in the film.
• The "Open Road" song that was written exclusively for this movie is really catchy. Well-written lyrics were provided to really suit the characters who are singing their specific verses, and actors David Jason, Richard Pearson and Ian Carmichael sing it so well.
• The incidental music playing during the Motor Car montage just simply adds more to the hilarity.
• The Battle of Toad Hall theme, from the start, where the weasels realise that Badger and the others are there and spring up from the tables to fight, all the way to the finish when all of the weasels are down for the count.
• This is one of the few adaptations to include "Wayfarers All". The song is beautifully realised with a whimsical nautical feel, complete with Jack May's sinister baritone.

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