David Browning (Born 1936) is a musician and cornet player who some accounts state was hired in 1960 to play the melody of the theme tune to Coronation Street written by Eric Spear and titled Lancashire Blues. Browning is a former music professor at Salford University who has worked with many world-famous groups and musicians as a session musician and also played the theme to The Archers, Opportunity Knocks, New Faces, The Golden Shot, Nearest and Dearest, and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Club (the latter two being Granada productions).