I get very sad and emotional and happy watching this . brings back alot off memories growing up in manchester england my mums favourite show I was only about 5 or 7 years old but I can still remember my mum and dad sitting on the couch having there cup off tea and coffee on a cold night watching this program every week , I missu mum and dad so very much , I wish you were still alive so I can talk to u brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it love you
In Canada we grew up thinking that England was an almost mythical place full of people wearing business suits or full formal attire, bowler hats, sitting around and drinking tea, living out scenes like in the show… a sort of "we gotta look up to those guys" kind of ideals. Kinda funny now that I think back on it...
It's okay people move on from the past I love my mum to bits I'd be very gutted if I lost my own mum I'm still a young so I so Iv grown up in Manchester but i don't know how you feel iv not lost my mum
>>Liam: It's a real shame they didn't let you go to school while you were in prison in Canada. Even Ken "Casanova" Barlow could have taught you how to write in English. Still, I'm sure your French is just fine.
Captain Sparky I have a deaf neighbor and she always has corrie turned up at the highest limit that the tv can go on the volume and it is so loud yet calming
Wow, this actually made me cry. Especially the 2002 intro, the signature single cat meow. I was always allowed to stay up an hour past my bedtime if Coronation street with on. I would watch it with my Mom. I never knew how much I would come to cherish those moments with her
The CGI used in the 2002 title sequence is very good for the time. Seamlessly adding the street into rows of others. And the tram. Very well done. I remember being about 12 and my mother telling me that the street was actually a set and there weren't other streets or a real tram. I was amazed!
Was it really CGI? To be honest, I always assumed they just found an estate of similarly looking terraced houses and dressed one of the streets to look like Coronation Street.
my mums favourite show growing up in england , I remember sitting on the living room floor with my brothers and sisters and mum and dad watching in on the tele in the seventies and eighties im pretty sure everyone else was too wonderful memories
So nostalgic to hear the music theme. Coronation Street was shown in my country in the 70's, at 10pm. I could only watch half way before my late dad would chase me off to bed as l need to be up early for school. Certainly reminds me of my dad.
My grandmother's all time favourite show, lots of great childhood memories watching Coronation Street with her. Still to this day, one of the most iconic TV themes ever
weird that a cat walking across a rooftop is one of the most iconic images in modern British culture lol. Every time they tried a new intro that didn't have a cat in it there were nearly riots in the streets
Well, it was a new era for television, not many people wanted depression. Yes, the original focus was to watch the lives of Manchester’s residents of a backstreets gloomy ally, but now they have to keep up with the times
Did anyone else play “I saw the cat first!” Growing up? Basically as soon as you saw the cat you had to be the first one to say “I saw the cat first!” I used to play that with my family when I was a child (I didn’t really understand the show at the time but loved the cat). Now I play this game with my husband and we both get very competitive with it.
It's a bit too slick looking, the grimy working class look of the older intros is the whole point. The 70s and 80s ones capture the atmosphere the best, though I remember the 90's intro most, that's the one when I was growing up.
I’m glad I saw this because I thought I was going crazy. There’s a clarinet part which has been added in the 2010 rendition of this piece. It wasn’t there in the original piece and then later on in 2010 it appeared. Now, it’s disappeared again… now I know I’m not going mad, well not because of this anyway…
90's intro definitely the best, fantastic shots of the telephone pole, high rise flats, the terraced rooftops and that shot of the desolate back alleyway really transmits the monotony of life in the towns of the North West.
I mean even back in the 80s, the North West was THE place for music in the UK. It's where the scene was. And these days it's even better. The North West is a hotbed of all types of art and culture. Music is just everywhere, the only places that compare are places like Memphis in the US where every bar there has a musician or band playing. Well in Liverpool and Manchester it's like that, it's hard to find a pub that _doesn't_ have a band on. I love it. That's why I moved to Liverpool from London. London is just full of people who hate everyone. The people up here though are so incredibly friendly
All the intros and programmes up to and including 2002 are the best ones, after that it all started going downhill. I like the slow full theme from 4:41. Gets the foot tapping to the beat
If you want to see a live performance of this you will find it under Lancashire Blues, the theme's real title performed by Carl Woodoison on trumpet with myself accompanying him. I hope you all enjoy it.
I have never been as keen on the latest version of the titles, they show Manchester city centre instead of the terraces of Salford. I like all the old titles, especially the black and white version with the smoky chimneys and also the version with the ginger cat
my 1st visit to the uk -1960- when i was a 10 years old girl.. then again and again as a teenager as an engaged young woman as a mum of a toddler as a mum of a student and now as a grand mum ( all in all about 60 times lol) .....the same music .....memories...............oh well......................................great...........................
the new theme tune is so lazy, just a dumbed down version of the original - suits the current product. Loved the intros through the years - great upload
I think that this Show and The Themes To The Young & The Restless never changed their theme as well as The Bold & The Beautiful. Can you imagine the Bank that Henry Mancini gets when Nadia's Theme is played.
I hate the new title music, It is missing that wonderful bass line and brushed drums, its sounds so thin. Not at all like the rich deep original classic!
Don't go back TOOOooooo Far into the title music definitely not the 1st 2. BRINNGGGGG BONG BADABOOM BADABING. 😂 the 1st one sounds like it's made of tin.
Does anyone know if the rows of houses featured in the 1964 title sequence are the same as those shown after the pan from the flats in the 1969 sequence?
I always wondered whatever happened to the cat walking around the roofs and clothes lines… I remember my folks watching the show, and I would hear the opening music, and I knew instantly it was time to break out the tea, and listen to people babble on all day about stuff I barely understood. Good times.
I also watched this as a little girl, When I would go to my Nan's house she would always have this show on the TV. She also watched EastEnders too. I'm a big fan now myself but mainly watch EastEnders.
![Intro History: Coronation Street (1960-Present) [Ep 17]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dXM4vZQ1dCg/mqdefault.jpg)
I get very sad and emotional and happy watching this . brings back alot off memories growing up in manchester england my mums favourite show I was only about 5 or 7 years old but I can still remember my mum and dad sitting on the couch having there cup off tea and coffee on a cold night watching this program every week , I missu mum and dad so very much , I wish you were still alive so I can talk to u brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it love you
In Canada we grew up thinking that England was an almost mythical place full of people wearing business suits or full formal attire, bowler hats, sitting around and drinking tea, living out scenes like in the show… a sort of "we gotta look up to those guys" kind of ideals. Kinda funny now that I think back on it...
I know it's 11th November today. Armistice Day 1918. I'm getting dressed by watching this. I love you Army x
It's okay people move on from the past I love my mum to bits I'd be very gutted if I lost my own mum I'm still a young so I so Iv grown up in Manchester but i don't know how you feel iv not lost my mum
>>Liam: It's a real shame they didn't let you go to school while you were in prison in Canada. Even Ken "Casanova" Barlow could have taught you how to write in English. Still, I'm sure your French is just fine.
>>Ziadah: your mum is your bum lost to lose my mum bum lose ok your mum Iv grown up in Swaziland too mum ok your lose young mum.
1960 - 2020
60 Years
10,000 Episodes
And Ken Barlow - William Roache is still there
This is the most peaceful title music for a tv show I've ever heard.
Captain Sparky I have a deaf neighbor and she always has corrie turned up at the highest limit that the tv can go on the volume and it is so loud yet calming
No eastenders...
You want peaceful, try Hill Street Blues or A Country Practice?
The theme song is peaceful
The show really isnt tho
@@DragonPanda4 It was until about the late 90s🤣
Wow, this actually made me cry. Especially the 2002 intro, the signature single cat meow. I was always allowed to stay up an hour past my bedtime if Coronation street with on. I would watch it with my Mom. I never knew how much I would come to cherish those moments with her
The CGI used in the 2002 title sequence is very good for the time. Seamlessly adding the street into rows of others. And the tram. Very well done. I remember being about 12 and my mother telling me that the street was actually a set and there weren't other streets or a real tram. I was amazed!
I'm pretty sure the tram was real
Jesus
@@ohok734they do use real tram rolling stock on set
Was it really CGI? To be honest, I always assumed they just found an estate of similarly looking terraced houses and dressed one of the streets to look like Coronation Street.
And the tunnel
my mums favourite show growing up in england , I remember sitting on the living room floor with my brothers and sisters and mum and dad watching in on the tele in the seventies and eighties im pretty sure everyone else was too wonderful memories
yeah used to be nice to have tea and Tele
So nostalgic to hear the music theme. Coronation Street was shown in my country in the 70's, at 10pm. I could only watch half way before my late dad would chase me off to bed as l need to be up early for school. Certainly reminds me of my dad.
My grandmother's all time favourite show, lots of great childhood memories watching Coronation Street with her. Still to this day, one of the most iconic TV themes ever
weird that a cat walking across a rooftop is one of the most iconic images in modern British culture lol. Every time they tried a new intro that didn't have a cat in it there were nearly riots in the streets
I love how many of us would watch just for the cat.
I remember listening to this play in the living every night when I lived with my grandparents 😊
me too brings back a lot of memories
Don't like the most recent opening titles its way to colourful and sunny. Its not depressing enough...
60yrs of depression is not good...lol
Me neither, prefer the Granada version.
XD
Well, it was a new era for television, not many people wanted depression. Yes, the original focus was to watch the lives of Manchester’s residents of a backstreets gloomy ally, but now they have to keep up with the times
but at least the cat is cute
I could listen to this theme song all day! Very relaxing.
It's truly one of the more haunting theme entrances of any show ever, plus it has a snappy under beat that softens it's intent.
spot on.
The only reason I watched when I was a kid was just to get seeing the cat snuggling up on the roof at 1:28.
1:40- 1982 coronation street
Same haha, I'd wait for the cat and go to bed.
Except for me it was the 1994 one
I love cats.
same!
Same 😂
I was born in 1980 still watch the show regularly now i much prefer the old theme tune particularly the longer version of the titles at the end
When's your birthday
Did anyone else play “I saw the cat first!” Growing up? Basically as soon as you saw the cat you had to be the first one to say “I saw the cat first!” I used to play that with my family when I was a child (I didn’t really understand the show at the time but loved the cat). Now I play this game with my husband and we both get very competitive with it.
It's a bit too slick looking, the grimy working class look of the older intros is the whole point. The 70s and 80s ones capture the atmosphere the best, though I remember the 90's intro most, that's the one when I was growing up.
I grow up with the 2002 one even though its a bit older than me
So depressing remember seeing this intro as a kid in the 80s and quickly switching over...still makes me wanna kill myself:)
I like the 70s and 80s ones because of the long rows of houses and apartments
Emmerdale: I'd love to live there
Coronation Street: Can't wait to get out of there
Live in EastEnders then
Eastenders is scary I prefer corrie because there's less brutality.
@@pyeltd.5457 hahaha
Emmerdale's ok
@Greatmate Live in Hollyoaks, that's what I'm saying.
1976 - My favourite. I remember the ginger cat.
The cat is still alive???? LOL
Julio Rocha Good-bye to all my cats on corrie st. R.I.P :( This song is 4 you.
Those cats are different so some of them are dead
Percy used to collect the dead cats, shred them with Jack's deceased pigeons and cook them under ginfire!
It has nine lives :)
Caitlin05 it’s a joke
Several versions of this music are great!
They're mostly the same
@@legonfan2261 except the 2010 one
@@GROUNDEDCRINGE yes
@@JonHunt1969 Didnt u read what I said
Nope me …….. i may have
Happy 60th birthday, Corrie. 9th December 1960.
Thank you Tony Warren
This brings me memories of going to my nan and grandads house on Fridays and watching this with them
I’m glad I saw this because I thought I was going crazy.
There’s a clarinet part which has been added in the 2010 rendition of this piece. It wasn’t there in the original piece and then later on in 2010 it appeared. Now, it’s disappeared again… now I know I’m not going mad, well not because of this anyway…
Yup, I hear it too. It's subtly hidden behind the cat, but it's definitely there.
Reading an excerpt from Morrissey's autobiography brought me here - the 1969 tower block...
I would have thought reading an autobiography by Morrissey would have brought you to the roof of the tower block...
@@jockstrap and watching Corrie Street
Eric Spear was paid £36 for the tune and that was a lot of money in them days lol
Imagine the kind of money he'd be making to this day if he had royalty deal.
He now makes around £1.
I could listen to the old music all day
When you listen to it carefully, particularly the end music, its the bass that's doing all the work.
oh my, took me so far back, thank you for posting!
Thank you, glad you liked it
+Will James I like the 60's coronation st
+Will James I love Coronation Street from the1960's
+Will James you should do more videos dude. You have 400 subscribers I'm greatful I even have 10
+DirtTrackGaming on my other channel
I watch this show with my dad all the time.
:)
When Coronation Street Aired On Granada
This takes me way back too my child hood!😭
my mum would always watch this and eastenders, its so nostalgic hearing the intros
oh man i remember my mother watching this early in the morning when we would come see her after waking up,that theme song from 2000
This makes me really miss my nan 😢
That is the only soap opera that my mother actually watches. She usually likes it when there's funny parts.
90's intro definitely the best, fantastic shots of the telephone pole, high rise flats, the terraced rooftops and that shot of the desolate back alleyway really transmits the monotony of life in the towns of the North West.
I mean even back in the 80s, the North West was THE place for music in the UK. It's where the scene was. And these days it's even better. The North West is a hotbed of all types of art and culture. Music is just everywhere, the only places that compare are places like Memphis in the US where every bar there has a musician or band playing. Well in Liverpool and Manchester it's like that, it's hard to find a pub that _doesn't_ have a band on. I love it. That's why I moved to Liverpool from London. London is just full of people who hate everyone. The people up here though are so incredibly friendly
@@duffman18 it's called MaDchester
Love the 1969 and 1975 openings, I remember these best.
Honestly the new one is the best just cos of the "meow" so iconic
ITV's The Best Of Coronation Street In The 1960s
2:36 I like intro with the cat 🐱🐈 out of the sunshine ☀ in 1994.
Sooo DEPRESSING!
Every time I'd hear this song on TV as a kid I'd just run out the room!
kamma44 so right
kamma44 fffffggggggffddeooooop
Yes!
i was the same
your not alone on that !!
the 2002 one I remember so well just falling asleep on the couch as a 5 year old after seeing that 🥺🥺 I loved the little cat though
I remember the 1991 the most. I was 4 years old at the time. All the family used to sit around the box when this came on. Ahh, memories...
i would love to be a kid in the 1960's lol. everything seems peaceful
Love the theme they played at the end, back in the day
All the intros and programmes up to and including 2002 are the best ones, after that it all started going downhill. I like the slow full theme from 4:41. Gets the foot tapping to the beat
I still can't believe ITV changed the theme.
1:27
"Even a cat's falling asleep."
- History Buffs on the show's main theme 🤣🤣🤣
If you want to see a live performance of this you will find it under Lancashire Blues, the theme's real title performed by Carl Woodoison on trumpet with myself accompanying him. I hope you all enjoy it.
+Trev Woodison Thank you, that was great. My favourite bit is at 1:13 which isn't on the show anymore, is it?
The fact that all of it is through instruments makes it amazing.
Was it played by a silver band? That's what it sounds like to me.
It was played by Eric Spear.
rip jean alexander hilda ogden
I've been watching since I was an elementary school lad here in Canada in the mid to late '70s. No regrets. Lots of great moments and memories.
I love coronation street so much
Your like my grandma she used to watch Corrie all the time.
Aidan Mercer it's Corro to my grandma 😂
The cats keep their endearing characteristics as the years on Coronation Street pass on...
That and Ken Barlowe.
floydefisher I love cats. Thats how i watched corrie as a kid.
MrsLukeArnold I have two cats, however I live in the US, so I can't watch corrie. :(
floydefisher poor you
You can watch Corrie legally on Yahoo View, Hulu, and BritBox in the US now!
They just get better and better
I have never been as keen on the latest version of the titles, they show Manchester city centre instead of the terraces of Salford. I like all the old titles, especially the black and white version with the smoky chimneys and also the version with the ginger cat
Great Video
The 1960 one makes me nostalgic for a time I never lived in
The cat appears the year I was born.
I really love watching Coronation Street.
It's one of my aunt's favourite shows.
I just wish this programme had never turned derogatory.
Still very iconic to this day wow
When I heard this theme song as a kid, it was a queue to immediately turn the channel, even the french channel was better.
my 1st visit to the uk -1960- when i was a 10 years old girl.. then again and again as a teenager as an engaged young woman as a mum of a toddler as a mum of a student and now as a grand mum ( all in all about 60 times lol) .....the same music .....memories...............oh well......................................great...........................
Sylvia Drandaki you still with the same guy lol😂
1960 version was the best they way it drops the bass mid way through changing note
**pushes cat off wall**
I remember the cat in the intros 😂 who can forget that I think in my opinion that was a trademark.
Elsie Tanner, Ken Barlow, Hilda Ogden, Ena Sharples etc
Classic UK TV Show
Longest running TV Series in the world, 1960 to today
As a kid this song use to make me feel useless
Yeh the theme song is so depressing 😒
+Jet Blue Eastenders is Depressing
Niamhh 14 Agreed. I went to a sleepover with someone and she made me watch Eastenders every night and she turned up the volume when someone screams.
Such a sweet and warm hearted song 💚💚💚
the new theme tune is so lazy, just a dumbed down version of the original - suits the current product. Loved the intros through the years - great upload
This always creeped me out as a kid, though I'm not sure why.
I think the 4:00 titles are showing the hills of the Yorkshire Dales, near where Emmerdale is filmed.
The theme for Buggarnation Street has changed over the years.
Oh look, it's a person that watches Victorialucas.
Happy 57th Anniversary Coronation Street
1960-2018
50 Golden Years
No other TV opening has set the tone so well.
Best of all, it's stayed relatively the same.
I think that this Show and The Themes To The Young & The Restless never changed their theme as well as The Bold & The Beautiful. Can you imagine the Bank that Henry Mancini gets when Nadia's Theme is played.
Has anyone noticed that the corrie tune stayed the same for 59 years
No, it didn't, it sped up and slowed down. Adagio and Andante. Piss and then pish.
I hate the new title music, It is missing that wonderful bass line and brushed drums, its sounds so thin. Not at all like the rich deep original classic!
biosynthetronic2 In 2015, my Nanny Wendie brought me a set of Coronation Street from the old days. 1960-1969
biosynthetronic2 I'm with you that ruind the show
Don't go back TOOOooooo Far into the title music definitely not the 1st 2.
BRINNGGGGG BONG BADABOOM BADABING. 😂 the 1st one sounds like it's made of tin.
@@nicolelawless3199 2010 is best 2000 is shit 1964 is good
@@emmanuelbadu7864 no
Monday and Wednesday was quite adequate, good actors and storylines, more in touch with reality and humour.
CORONATION STREET CAT FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@jayden2592 WHAT?
@@patcjan84 at 1:27
Does anyone know if the rows of houses featured in the 1964 title sequence are the same as those shown after the pan from the flats in the 1969 sequence?
1991 theme was the best & memorable ❤❤❤
Coronation Street And EastEnders Are Best Dramas.
Ye and emmerdale
My mom used to watch this when I was a kid and I hated the song in the 1991 one lol! Id sit down and watch the cat lol
I'm the 1982 version! Television was way different back then! BBC1, BBC2, ITV and CHANNEL 4!
What where they thinking in the 2008 one😭 and the one now I swear they changed the tune bc it sounds a bit different
The best intro in my opinion is the 2002 version with the milk car
It was one of most watched tv promgrammes on tv
Can somebody tell me if there's somebody who's watched EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, from 1960 till date?
i remember when it was the 50th anni and the tram crash, they showed the first ever one with ken in it!
that cat that sits on the roof of the shed at the back of the house is prob one of the most famous cats :)
I always wondered whatever happened to the cat walking around the roofs and clothes lines… I remember my folks watching the show, and I would hear the opening music, and I knew instantly it was time to break out the tea, and listen to people babble on all day about stuff I barely understood. Good times.
i love the 2010 intro
4:35 EASTER EGG :D
I also watched this as a little girl, When I would go to my Nan's house she would always have this show on the TV. She also watched EastEnders too. I'm a big fan now myself but mainly watch EastEnders.
You Watch Coronation Street Love
I cant believe corrie is 64 this year
Corrie has just got worse and worse lately that I’ve stopped watching it. I’ve watched since 2015
Ah, I remember the 2002 one most.
Used to watch the show as a kid in the early 2000s on CBC. Hearing this takes me back
This music will haunt me forever 😂
Ros E bruh why yes it gives you the chills but it’s nice and relaxing
Magical, takes me back.
That theme tune is my life