Songs That Reference Carry On Films Somehow

I've only got two the first was in black and white, the second was in color, luh-luh-luh.

The Smiths, "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"
The Beatles, "I Dig A Pony"

What've you got?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T4vsEaWL9U

title sure, but also at 0.01-0.02.

never heard this

https://genius.com/The-streets-infamy-lyrics

xp
Erasure works.

There’s at least that one Beautiful South song, not sure if it is actually a reference, will probably need a ruling by a Britishes.

Also can’t tell how that Streets song works

In fact, only barely know how my two work

Bohemian Rhapsody?

I don't think so? There must be a Carter USM song somewhere, but i can't think right now.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k406ftpVQSg

"Babs Windsor, I gave you my heart / the very next day you gave it away / this year, to save me from tears / I'll give it to Kenneth Williams"

Eh, what?

Okay, will accept on the condition that you at least consider also posting that on: Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

re: The Streets song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs4bOMv5Xw

Thanks1

Can you also provide relevant clip for The Smiths as well?

"also" "as well" Pick Only One

Not exactly referenced in the song, but Morrissey's "Everyday is Like Sunday" video features clips from 'Carry On Abroad'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf6Xwb03jTE

(1:52 and 2:45)

Will accept that.

In fact, that led me to this website http://www.passionsjustlikemine.com/influence-cinema.htm which says that "Bigmouth Strikes Again" counts as well, along with some others. Who knew?

"Now I know how Joan of Arc felt" being a quote from Carry On Up Pompeii.

Will try to dig the others out of that page a little later.

That webpage also cast doubts on the Carry on Cleo connection of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_aW25wZ4Bc

but does acknowledge "Ooh I say" connection to Carry On in general.

there is no "carry on up pompeii".

In fact, my Beatles contribution is incorrect. It is not "I Dig A Pony" but rather the intro to "Two of Us" in which John says ""'I Dig a Pygmy', by Charles Hawtrey and the Deaf Aids... Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats!"

Not exactly referenced in the song, but Morrissey's "Everyday is Like Sunday" video features clips from 'Carry On Abroad'

and the video for "ouija board" featured joan sims.

Seems that it is just Up Pompeii!, a television series written by Talbot Rothwell. Can't find verification of that claim outside that website.

Belle and Sebastian - Put the Book Back on the Shelf

I know the company you keep
You're on the sofa hidden deep
While on the telly Sid James speaks
To you like God

Adam and the Ants - Friends

I'm an old friend of charles hawtrey

Excellent work so far. I need to go to bed now so, um, carry on.

The Beautiful South song “Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)” doesn’t seem to have anything to do with these films.

However there is their best of Carry On Up The Charts

The Beatles, "I Dig A Pony"

You mean "Two of Us", I think,, where Charles Hawtrey is mentioned at the start.

hah, didnt read your correction.

No worries. Figured that might happen

However there is their best of Carry On Up The Charts

"Good as gold_ mentions "Carry on regardless" which, um, is one of the carry on films.

it's a knowing reference

"on the telly Sid James speaks" is just as likely to refer to the sitcom Bless This House which isn't Carry On related

I would like to be able to post "Bike" by Fortran 5 but Mute are complete YouTube fascists - in the UK at least.

"Good as gold_ mentions "Carry on regardless" which, um, is one of the carry on films.

would like to be able to post "Bike" by Fortran 5 but Mute are complete YouTube fascists - in the UK at least.

― Whiney Houston (Tom D.), Thursday, December 21, 2017 5:06 AM (one hour ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k406ftpVQSg

The 7" of this one by the Sperm Wails came with a Carry On fanzine!

Half Man Half Biscuit track, Carry on Cremating. Unpleasant and mostly disowned by Nigel I think:

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/acd/carry-on-cremating/
http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/hardly-the-bayeux-in-rock%E2%80%99s-rich-tapestry/

I've been watching silent, subtitled carry on films all this week because they're on the TV in my local. I really hate them. I really like a lot of the actors, and their work at the same time, but carry on films are just the worst.

:(

watching thru subtitles wouldn't do them any favours tho, the dialogue itself isn't the joy

Sure, but I've seen most of them before. I remember a neighbour of mine who wouldn't let her kids (my friends) watch anything other that U films, didn't let them say 'damn' or things, and was just a super-repressed person; and she had every carry on film on video (that it was possible to have). And that is kind of what carry on means to me: it's the allowable naughtiness of a very conservative society.

"on the telly Sid James speaks" is just as likely to refer to the sitcom Bless This House which isn't Carry On related

or to Hancock's Half Hour

good point, had forgotten how old Stuart Murdoch is

LOL

haters; check this! you'll hate them even more..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTL1cgd6mo4

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6adVpfClPc8

Don't think any of the Carry On films were 'U' certificates, fwiw. And the way that they act out a v British repression is at least half the pleasure.

I think Maudlin Street is the name of the school in Carry On Teacher, so another one for Morrissey

March 1984

The WORLD SHUT YOUR MOUTH LP is released. People hate it, ignore it or just plain adore it. Cope is expected to tour and, sure enough, does. At Hammersmith Palais, Cope watches from the rafters as Rolo from The Woodentops imitates his show. Cope freaks. How to follow that? During "Reynard The Fox" he breaks the mike stand and cuts his stomach repeatedly, quoting Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar: "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me".

https://www.headheritage.co.uk/julian_cope/storyofthedrude/

An obvious one is the song "Up the Khyber" by Pink Floyd. I presume the expression was in the vernacular before, but the song happened to appear when Carry On Up the Khyber was the most recent of the series.

(Song was not performed at Pink Floyd Live Up Pompeii)

Maybe, but I think the expression was well know enough before the Carry On film.

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Carry-On-Disarming/release/4456850

Convenience link:
Search / Destroy : Carry On Films.

In fairness to Stuart Murdoch, “Hancock’s Half Hour” was repeated on the BBC in the mid-eighties which I guess would have been when he first saw them, assuming he did of course.

The Yummy Fur - Carry On Nurse

(xp) I don't remember "Hancock's Half Hour" being repeated in any regular prolonged fashion. I've seen the occasional famous episode, the Radio Ham, Blood Donor, 'Magna Carta, did she die in vain?', all of which are from the later post-Sid James/Kenneth Williams period. Maybe there was a 'Viewers in Scotland have their own programmes' scenario going on.

I've been waiting since the inception of the thread for you to provide the Scottish point of view.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7scMC7YSDQ

lol

"on the telly Sid James speaks" could refer to bless this house or hancock's half hour but i'm guessing that 99% of sid james' tv appearances in the last 40 years were carry on related.

Thought my memory may have been playing up, but they did repeat Hancock every Sunday evening on BBC One(!) in early 86. http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/320/20?order=asc&q=Hancock&svc=9371541#search

no I remember that but nobody's spoiling my Stuart Murdoch zing

The Carter USM song is The Music That Nobody Likes and quotes the same phrase as The Streets.

it's all mouldy old British rubbish that was endlessly repeated on .au telly in the '80s to me, NV

the sound of Stu and the gang!

Great work on this thread, guys. Wow at that Van Morrison song.