Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Original theme song

This is the original theme song from the movie Those magnificent men in their flying machines, this film and two of its stars, Terry Thomas & Eric Sykes were the inspiration for the Muttley and Dastardly stop the pigeon cartoon series.
Terry Thomas & Eric Sykes also played the same characters in the film 'Monte carlo or bust' which inspired the wacky races cartoons.

[@Risingson2]

Anyone else here because they saw this one like 30 years ago and the tune STILL jumps without any mercy to your brain and sticks there for a whole week at least?

[@leifvejby8023]

I actually watched it like 55 years ago, but yes!

[@vivekrbs]

So true man. Watched it about 40 years back.I still remember count emilio ponticelli .

[@GabyGeorge1996]

I actually heard it from a series of Winnie the Pooh YTPs called “Pinnie the Whoo” 😅

[@masteryoda7207]

I'm only 19 in the first place but I love the film and song.

[@davidhenderson3971]

Happy days a classic, still makes you happy, brilliant

[@markgillan7562]

Just a great British film with a top quality cast ,it can't ever be repeated

[@nickgalea82]

My uncle had been an amateur pilot since he was a teenager in the 50's, he really loved ultralight/microlight planes in particular, which to me always looked like something out of a cartoon. When he passed away in 2011, this was his funeral song, it always makes me smile when I hear this song.

[@Cheesy_33]

this is definitely the type of song you do NOT want to play at a funeral

[@seeul8rwaynekerr]

Absolutely. My kinda bloke. This is the tune I want to be played as I'm loaded into the furnace as well

[@user-et8by9ty6d]

Он был Романтиком!

[@CockneyRebel1979]

I believe my next-door neighbour had a minor pilot's licence of some description.

[@Pekkari6969]

How to be a magnificent man in your flying machine. - Own a Sopwith Camel - Have a ruddy good mustache. - Perform daring stuns, such as a loop - Enchant all of the ladies with your charming wit - Be a flying ace shooting down the damn Jerries!

[@VRichardsn]

Wojtek The Bear You treat a Sopwith Camel like you treat your lady: get inside 5 times a day and take her to heaven.

[@AthelWah]

Richardsen Sqire reference?

[@VRichardsn]

TheNuggetThatCould Indeed!

[@bernchette1964]

Richardsen Actually it's a Blackadder reference, referenced by the one and only Squire

[@VRichardsn]

Darjeeling of St. Gloriana Thanks for the correction! I have heard nice things about Blackadder, I need to find sometime to watch it one day.

[@billybabu]

What a fabulous tune. I could listen to it all day long. Blessings from Wolverhampton England to you all.

[@briankleinschmidt3664]

I will be listening to it all day. "They go up diddy up up they go down. . .

[@KenzieRetro]

You could say it's a "magnificent" tune

[@TheCreeperGaming1]

The theme song for tier 1 arcade games in war thunder

[@JacobN-hg8tv]

I was just playing this to my friend while we were playing😂😂😂

[@jackthorton10]

Let at those boys fly!

[@octaviangrant9441]

When you see gladiators in a jet match

[@gunnarthefeisty]

they're so fun to kill

[@onelonewolf2944]

Gunnar anderson I agree jets are fun to kill in biplanes

[@LeBiggles]

I love old movies like this one. It's odd I'm 18 but I love old movies and music kinda makes me not fit in but to hell with that

[@lennonhookway]

I'm 20 and also watch old movies and feel the same way.

[@StormLaker]

We had an engineering contest at work the other day involving paper airplanes.....this was the first song in my head that came to mind, haha. LOVED this movie as a kid:-)

[@VRichardsn]

+StormLaker1975 This will give you the edge in case such engineering contest takes places again: imgur.com/gallery/jhpLS

[@HolyHeinz]

Gert Fröbe as Colonel Manfred von Holstein. We will never forget him! Even as Auric Goldfinger in 007’s Goldfinger! “I expect you to die, Mr. Bond!” Greetings from Germany!

[@captainfantastic9158]

I remembered this movie as a kid, and of course this fantastic theme song! I think I taped it off the TV so I could sing it around the house all day! ^_^

[@FromtheHerts81]

A film that reminds us that technology that’s routinely seen nowadays was once something only daredevils attempted.

[@connormclernon26]

Look to the history of the car, and especially those who did the first cross country trips

[@gaugebosons]

"Up, down, flying around! Looping the loop and defying the ground! They're all, Arthur!" "Frightfully keen!" "Those magnificent men, those magnificent men, those magnificent men in their flyyyyiiiing machiiiiiines!" Great moment, or greatest moment?

[@LocutusBorgOf]

BRILLIANT!

[@Maritimesgestein]

Yessssss

[@huffmanaviation7341]

The lemon is in play....

[@williamgreen8578]

Here I am don't tread on me

[@johnhughes2124]

Arthur is technically only a VERY helpful Passenger

[@AlexSDU]

If wasn't for Squire, I wouldn't know about this... magnificent movie.

[@veryrancid]

same here!

[@BOOMProductionsOfficial]

AlexSDU Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[@jackruhlman5573]

same

[@jonathanpinckney9227]

Good old Squire.

[@anilsrivast]

Terry Thomas was superb in this movie.

[@petermostyneccleston2884]

This is my all time favourite film. Good theme tune, and great comedy.

[@mattbear724]

I can remember my heavily pregnant mother, myself and my brother seeing this in the cinema all those years ago, and my mother laughing so much that she nearly went into labour! Luckily my sister was born without incident sometime later!

[@joemclaughlin995]

Did she become a pilot?Almost guaranteed!Thanks

[@pauldavis5093]

Huge mid sixties comedy, a wealth of comic talent, highly enjoyable

[@timcolledge3732]

Terry Thomas RIP , a thoroughly great man!!!!!

[@ThePilot314]

One of the best film about the spirit of flying! AND .......... this wonderful music

[@teletubetodd]

A great theme song of one of those star-studded, big-budgeted, historically heightened spectacles you don't see on the big or small screen anymore, in today's hyper-digitized, video-gamed age. Thanks for reviving this!

[@EmpressDR]

favorite moments are for Gert Frobe's scenes. I got the DVD and he improvised the bit where he made sounds with his mouth while marching and they kept it, and when reading the flying manual he said Step one: sit down, improvising and they kept it. then the scene where he is in the airplane while it's upside down and he walks on water it was not all stunt man, he did some of it

[@timcolledge3732]

Absolutely superb!!!! Have never tired of this film. Terry Thomas RIP

[@briishperson4555]

This film brings new meaning to "flying circus"

[@voja42]

Lyrics: Those magnificent men in their flying machines, they go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. They enchant all the ladies and steal all the scenes, with their up tiddly up up and their down tiddly down down. Up, down, flying around, looping the loop and defying the ground. They're all frightfully keen, those magnificent men in their flying machines. They can fly upside down with their feet in the air, they don't think of danger, they really don't care. Newton would think he had made a mistake, to see those young men and the chances they take. Those magnificent men in their flying machines, they go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. They enchant all the ladies and steal all the scenes, with their up tiddly up up and their down tiddly down down. Up, down, flying around, looping the loop and defying the ground. They're all frightfully keen, those magnificent men in their flying machines. Those magnificent men in their flying machines. They go up tiddly up up, they go down tiddly down down. Those magnificent men, those magnificent men, those magnificent men in their flying machines.

[@yourfrienskeeter2101]

Thank you!

[@TheOhhblind]

I watched this with my father for the first time around 10 years ago and since then I've listened to this theme about a thousand times!

[@harryrichmond127]

"I don't care how many times they go up didley up they're still gits" Love Balckadder :P

[@jamesharding3459]

Balckadder? What's that? Is it related to Blackadder?

[@Roger__Wilco]

@@jamesharding3459 It's just a typo you absolute knob, congratulations on being the first person in 8 years to feel like they need to ruin the fun by commenting on it I guess!

[@jamesharding3459]

@@Roger__Wilco r/whoosh

[@Roger__Wilco]

@@jamesharding3459 ...ok

[@jamesharding3459]

@@Roger__Wilco it was a joke.

[@masterofinsanity1993]

Join the Squidonian Empire. We have Twinings earl grey and biscuits.

[@alandidge]

Yeeeessss

[@leftcoaster67]

+H. D. Afentoulidis Where do I sign up?

[@alandidge]

+leftcoaster67 why through the youtube channel SquireFlyer of course!

[@bruleebois2046]

+H. D. Afentoulidis The Wellington squadron .... More like dead squadron OHHH

[@sovietsomething]

yessssss

[@DemonPikachu]

One of the catchiest songs I've ever heard. Best thing is, I saw the whole movie. It was magnificent...with those men and their flying machines. :3

[@duglife2230]

Mmmmm ,Yesssssss

[@panduwidagdo7051]

Oh hello

[@maverick740]

+Pandu Widagdo oh hello bang pandu

[@panduwidagdo7051]

Anjir, kecewa aku.

[@ero24gaming24]

Dug Triplefour SQUIRE!!!!

[@MLaak86]

Such an underrated movie, both as a comedy and an insight into the thinking of the nations involved at the time.

[@tankschool1565]

Lord I miss those days

[@timcolledge3732]

Fabulous film!! Terry Thomas at his best, god rest his soul.

[@tonystrange1892]

Terry Thomas, The master of all cads and bounders

[@BriansBrain]

This film and Blake Edwards' The Great Race (1965) were clear inspirations for two of my favourite cartoons; Wacky Races and Dastardly & Muttley In Their Magnificent Flying Machines.

[@albertpeterson5585]

...you missed "Those Daring Young Men in their Jaunty Jalopies," aka "Monte Carlo or Bust!", with the same producer, director, and most of the same cast; and Jimmy Durante with the theme song.

[@JeffDeWitt]

And of course "The Great Race" had the greatest pie fight in movie history. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIjQeWh8e8yLapY

[@Fjilcp3]

Rest in peace Eric Sykes.. Thanks for the memories!!

[@imshaunofthedead]

Whenever I have a crappy day or just feel down or angry I listen to this song and everything is cool

[@geobrower3069]

Saw this 5 times in one week, emigrating to Canada for the second time on the 'Empress Of Canada' this was mid-summer 1965. One of 4 or 5 movies they played every day during the crossing. Damn fine movie!

[@arthurshappey8217]

Up! Down! Flying arooooound, looping the loop and defying the groooounnnddd!

[@harrisevans4342]

There! Oh, frightfully keen! Those maaagnificent men in their flyyyying machines!

[@Dersephh]

They can fly upside down with their feet in the air! They dont think of the danger, they really dont care

[@z250B]

Love the pictures of everybodies' favorite villain Terry Thomas

[@vitoyung]

Those magnificent men in their flying machines, They go up diddley up-up, they go down diddley down-down! They entrance all the ladies and steal all the scenes, With their up diddley up-up and their down diddley down-down. Up! down! Flying around! Looping the loop and defying the ground! They're all frightfully keen. Those Magnificent men in their flying machines! They can fly upside down with their feet in the air! They don't think of danger; they really don't care! Newton would think he had made a mistake! To see those young men and the chances they take! Those magnificent men in their flying machines, They go up diddley up-up, they go down diddley down-down! They entrance all the ladies and steal all the scenes, With their up diddley up-up and their down diddley down-down. Up! down! Flying around! Looping the loop and defying the ground! They're all frightfully keen. Those Magnificent men in their flying machines! Those magnificent men in their flying machines, They go up diddley up-up, they go down diddley down-down! Those magnificent men... those magnificent men Those magnificent men in their flyyyyyyying machines.

[@AntiqueAirshow]

A great film. I'm only 20, but was introduced to the film as a 6 year old and it has stuck with me ever since. I remember convincing my grade 5 class to watch it. I found it hilarious, but unfortunately not too many of my classmates seemed to overly enjoy it.

[@massimomassai3337]

Purtroppo ciò che vola non interessa quasi a nessuno. Questo perche' forse non sanno sognare. Quindi non immaginano né creano..... Ciao.

[@TimDaCorgi]

Battlefield 1 main theme song confirmed

[@ericmorley-smith1883]

Soon as you hear this a smile comes to the face...........

[@billcox5563]

Delightful story. Stereotypes add a plus to make it a great and funny story. Good flying sequences. Great old planes.

[@DMSBrian24]

Right bloody time to get me a cuppa tea it is, oh jolly good how magnificent indeed!

[@isaacwood4071]

BrianDMS Are you American

[@intercity0461]

Indeed my good sir!

[@Tay-kz7jo]

Fire the cannons! Yesssss.

[@reduolf]

I only saw the film last month but I instantly fell in love with it! Great stuff!!

[@66PHILB]

Welcome to a large group of people who love this film.

[@StellarYankee]

Quite simply the only thing to listen to whilst you blast Jerry out the sky in a good ol' spitfire

[@fantump00p3r4]

Probably a sopwith camel not a spitfire lol

[@marcmaschal2897]

This is one of those songs that stays in your head forever. Saw this when I was a kid. 45 yrs ago ?

[@jedkemsley4773]

My favourite childhood movie!

[@IWasTheMadOne]

I remember this being on a video I had when I was little. I heard it on Cabin Pressure and was reminded of how much I love it.

[@sonofatwitch82]

I finally saw this film yesterday, it was BRILLIENT!!!!

[@stephanvenner2939]

A great childhood memory since I watched it first as a little kid on a sunday afternoon on TV.So much fun.Thankyou for posting the song.

[@see1like]

Cabin pressure :)

[@imadethis1013]

see1like yaaaaaaaas!

[@robinbarnett8376]

see1like I can't help but hear Arthur's version 😂

[@AFlyGuyYYC]

Me too

[@harrisevans4342]

Good to see someone here knows the original source :)

[@NaturalRadiation]

At 0.5 speed, it sounds like a bunch of guys singing drunk in a bar after a victorious football match.

[@alexmansson1250]

+NukeRocket Everything sounds drunk on 0.5 speed, test it out xD

[@skyflier8955]

How do you speed it up or slow it down?

[@AlexSDU]

+Marc Hess, Jr You know that button where you change the video quality? It's there, above the video quality option.

[@dylonlachenal5294]

+AlexSDU not on mobile version tho

[@AlexSDU]

Dylon Lachenal I see. Sorry to heard that. I never get use to watching YT using my handphone(mobile).

[@willieterblanche9417]

I am 63 years old and my late mother worked for a company South African consolidate films she brought the movie hom and we watched it I was 11years at that time and after all these years I still enjoy this movie

[@Moomoomoose21]

This was on two floats at the Weston Super Mare Carnival... I just cant get it out of my head... I love it!

[@albertpeterson5585]

...Oberst Manfred von Holstein: "Number one: sit down."...hysterical!

[@jvwaf]

this magnificent song in one of the best films ever!!!

[@rajivnarainsingh]

A wonderful experience..watching the movie and living the fantasies !!! A salute to the great men and women..and the Air Machines which participated in the great epic :))

[@S.J.MORTIMER]

Nobody writes stupid but brilliant songs like this anymore.

[@miketierney7451]

The still write stupid songs just no brilliant ones

[@spiceinthecoffee]

Ten points if this was Arthur Shappey's favourite movie when he was a little boy

[@chrisgreen1087]

It's so catchy. Just cant stop -those magnificent men in their flying machines- singing it.

[@connormclernon26]

This was my maternal grandfather’s favorite movie of all time. He always got a kick out of it

[@Cobarmthk]

listening to this brings back good memories

[@MrPijus123]

Squire anyone?

[@tjal8709]

Me

[@Adam-mw2wi]

Me too

[@NvRb4NeWnAr]

MrPijus123 THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES!!!

[@wargaminggamer]

MrPijus123best outro song ever! ^^

[@h0riz0n45]

MrPijus123 Me.

[@TheSingingMustache]

I rember this movie from when I was just a kid, loved the song, loved the movie, still do. They just dont make them like that any more, too bad!

[@MKIVWWI]

Actually, Joseph Hanna and William Barbera have stated that Jack Lemmon's "Professor Fate" in "The Great Race" (1965) was the inspiration for Dick Dastardly (and, incidentally Tony Curtis' "The Great Leslie" inspired Peter Perfect).

[@billybabu]

Enjoying this beautiful music while in Lock down here in the UK. Love and blessing from Wolverhampton England to you all.

[@cesare116]

This song is an amazing joyous outburst.

[@Keeazul]

The real magnificent film on magnificent men and their flying machines! Totally love it!! The only thing I’ve got to say pity is that the advanced Japanese aeroplane with Yujiro Ishihara couldn’t make it even to the Dover Channel.

[@snowrocket]

"Those Magnificent Men..." is THIS tune for the movie (of the same name) about flying. "Markh5682" IS in fact correct: the car race movie is "Monte Carlo or Bust" everywhere but in the USA, where is was retitled "Those Daring Young Men...". Both the flying movie AND the car movie were comedies starring Terry Thomas and Eric Sykes. Both are family-friendly comedies worth seeing with a catchy theme song.

[@wolfbyte3171]

Speed 1.5x You're welcome XD

[@FilliamPL]

wolfbyte3171 omg..

[@bayblade948]

wolfbyte3171 It halarious and the reason i just woke my family.... thanks!

[@bayblade948]

wolfbyte3171 Try 2.0 speed you wont regret it!

[@flashbaggins427]

+wolfbyte3171 Come on, its all about the drunkness at 0.5x speed

[@thefurrybastard1964]

+wolfbyte3171 I'm just upvoting you because your avatar is cool.

[@colleenjin8794]

Listening to this while playing Rise of Flight is a joy!

[@Ace_Ivo]

Yeah I should really try that :)

[@Randleray]

Jingles anyone? ^^

[@johnrider5701]

My mum took me to see it back in the late sixties and i feel in love with it . I watched it on DVD recently and I still feel the same . The only sad part is that my mum isn't around to see it anymore.

[@michaelodell1381]

My Dad has told me of his fond memory seeing this film at age 8 with his father in 1965

[@jamesring6995]

This is the perfect song for flying russian biasplanes in warthunder

[@kiandoyle]

Or just arcade battles watching people roll and dive to avoid crashing.

[@stikfigz]

Dedicated Po-2 pilot signing in

[@Hy93Ri0n]

stikfigzxD mustang jockey here

[@lanchester101]

You can say that again

[@TheOhhblind]

This song is just perfect for war thunder

[@circusitch]

It’s been a catchy theme for over a half a century. It will still be catchy in a hundred more years.

[@rogerlynch5279]

As a kid, I have seen the movie together with my cousin, on of the best afternoon in my life.

[@colinglass1342]

FAVOURITE FILM THEMES MUSIC.Fantastic film love this theme music spectacular

[@TheJabbate1]

Is it weird that I keep getting this song in my head whenever I see gameplay footage of Star Wars Squadrons?

[@joemclaughlin995]

The work of a genius!

[@paulchapin6877]

I remember seeing the movie when it first came out and loving it. I wonder how well it’s held up over the years. Usually when I go back and see a movie from my youth I’m disappointed with it.

[@stephenromey6348]

A big thank you to Andrei Martyanov for making this movie relevant again - I remember seeing it as a child in the theaters with my parents.

[@reachvrable]

I'll never forget Morley's line,"The trouble with international events is that they bring so many foreigners together. " True, but it was delightful to watch the national traits of the competitors, English, French, German, and a Japanese too. I'd like to know where a DVD of this delightful movie can be bought in India.

[@davidfurey924]

squire you cheeky boy sending all of us here

[@SteveCarras]

Very catchy theme song!! Reminds me of Mitch Miller's Sing Along with Mitch albums and a TV show in the US.

[@mandalore1000]

This song in one word is BRILLIANT

[@stevenp6007]

I don't who this "Squire" fellow is, but this is one of my favorite movies!

[@dannyreyna2821]

Rest in peace Mad Mike Hughes.🚀

[@JinxSanity]

The song that got stuck in my head after it was played one time too many on America's Funniest Home Videos.

[@roberthaworth8991]

"Mr. Smoots, you know everyone in the Musicians' Union. Who's our best slide-whistle man? Please ring him immediately!"

[@lyftias]

I could listen to this all day

[@sleet1650]

Ahh, squire. Jingles too.

[@ldblokland463]

@Amelia-Roze brooke jordan Just look up squire on youtube, its a war thunder channel that used to have this music at the end of his videos.

[@RakRescue]

@@ldblokland463 god i miss that

[@JenniferUpton_2]

Lance Percival...advancing with his 'scarf flying' and the plane dived under London Bridge. (Biplanes..compared to an Su-35 or Phantom or Harrier( Loved the movie from aeons ago

[@boet613]

I saw this film over 20 years ago....I was 10 years old....this song stuck in my head all this time....amazing...thanks for the post

[@andrewnguyen6290]

Jingles landing compilation.

[@barnabyg6808]

andrew Nguyen what video was that

[@NorrisHistoryCorner]

@@Ardridalain and even some of his cold waters videos...

[@mibevan]

Play this song when making a plane in GMOD

[@intoxicatedbeard9635]

Or start trolling people with rockets in War Thunder ;)

[@ArieeirA]

+Merasmus The Duck Wizard Po-2 or JU-87 trolling :P

[@krystianhinz4575]

SquireFlyer brought me here a while ago

[@chrisc1140]

+krystian hinz First heard it from Jingles, but it certainly fits Squire so incredibly well

[@joshuamcintyre1267]

from the turtle video?

[@rancorusia]

+Joshua Mcintyre Squire uses it for his closings :P glad to see so many warthunder's here though xD

[@cerysstorey6821]

same

[@desannful]

Same here. Awesome, isn't it?

[@AusyG]

I have absolutely no clue who this squire chap is but he's obviously seen one my absolute childhood favorites. Glad other people are discovering this wonderful classic.