Music Sheet

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Royal Montreal Regiment Museum

Name/Title

Music Sheet

Entry/Object ID

2018x.54.01

Scope and Content

Sheet music for the song "Carry On" by Ernest Dainty, Stanley Maxted and Gordon V. Thompson which became the theme song of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program "Carry On, Canada" during the Second World War.

Research Notes

Notes

This song was also featured by the C.B.C. Radio show "The Happy Gang." The Happy Gang was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio lunchtime variety show that ran from 1937 to 1959. During the Golden Age of Radio and well into the 1950s it was one of Canada's most popular programs. In its heyday, it had about two million listeners a day. The show was known for its "spontaneous humor, music, and corny jokes."