For 31 hour-and-a-half low-budgeted movies, the Carry On film series was full of awesome music — whether the theme song or just background music in general. Fans often argue over what movie had the best theme tune and others struggle to find a copy of the tune on the internet. Either way, no matter what theme tune you preferred over the other, whenever you turned on a Carry On movie, you're guaranteed to be excited for what's to come regardless. The movies' music is so awesome, The BBC Proms did a compilation
of the popular films' theme tunes.
- The Matron's tune travelled through the majority of the movies that featured the character, which gave out the haughty battle-axe feeling.
- Carry On Cabby. If you listen carefully, you could sing "Call me a cab" along parts of the harmonica line.
- Don't Lose Your Head had ... "Don't Lose Your Head", which mashed in a cameo from the French National Anthem.
- Carry On Abroad also featured the French National Anthem as the intro, but also has elements of other European music throughout.
- As much as it's loathed by so many, everyone admits that Carry On Emmannuelle has a great disco sound.
- Carry On Matron:
- Who knew that you could create a jazzy piece to the tune of "Rockabye Baby"?
- The electric guitar leitmotif for the gangsters is a good parody of many leitmotifs for the bad guys in gangster movies.
- Carry On Loving did a jazzy mash-up of the Wedding March.
- Carry On Camping has one of the most recognised Carry On theme tunes. Many would've heard it on the Advertising segments of Screenwipe.
- Carry On Girls' theme, based on the music at beauty pageants.
- Carry On Again Doctor:
- The film has a similar introduction to Camping, but is just as toe-tapping.
- The general "Excuse Me" song, which is a brass band version of Carry On Cabby. It's just as good, and awesome to hear the harmonica line being performed on a clarinet.
- The film has a similar introduction
- The Recurring Riff from the first four movies are catchy as hell.
- Carry On Henry had a jazzy "Greensleeves", which was rumoured to have been composed by Henry VIII himself (or at least his orchestra's conductor).
- The title track from "CAARRY ON SCREAMIIING!!!", suitably punctuated by shrieks from a female chorus, may have an unmistakeably 1960s atmosphere, but it sets the scene perfectly for a Carry On film that actually packs a few scares amid the ribald humour and Hurricane of Puns. The cover by Boz Burrell (later of King Crimson and Bad Company fame) is no slouch either.
- Carry On Up the Khyber's theme deserves to be included here. Also all the background music with the woodwind instrument stings that give out the Arabian feel.
- Carry On Cruising's nautical tune.
- Carry On Cleo, obviously "parodying" the music from Cleopatra.
