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Definitely like The Sea Hawk and The Black Swan, the latter having a particularly catchy main theme (I really need to give Captain Blood a really thorough listen). The first Pirates of the Caribbean score was pretty good, but I didn’t really notice the score in the second film (which really could have used some judicious trimming) and never really watched the other films in the series. I also wish Intrada would put out Clifton Parker’s score for Disney’s live-action version of “Treasure Island,” if any of it survives.
Edit: Anne of the Indies is another good one as EdG mentioned, which I plan on relistening to tomorrow.
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Pirates - Philippe Sarde - 1986
Swashbuckler - John Addison - 1976
The Light at the Edge of the World - Piero Piccioni - 1971
The Boy and the Pirates - Albert Glasser - 1960
The Buccaneer - Elmer Bernstein - 1958
The Master of Ballantrae - William Alwyn - 1953
The Crimson Pirate - William Alwyn - 1952
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THE SEA HAWK, and CAPTAIN BLOOD - Korngold
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All of them, I'd say.
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All of them, I'd say.
Fortunately I can narrow down my choice to one - John Addison’s Swashbuckler.
Although I have a nostalgic pull towards Cap’n Pugwash.
I see what you did there. 
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Crowbarred in with temeritous cheek, The island, morricone lol
And wasnt there a scarlet something or other?
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Crowbarred in with temeritous cheek, The island, morricone lol
And wasnt there a scarlet something or other?
Blade
Pimpernel
Street
Letter
Fever
Ring any bells 
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I think the pirate one mustve been Scarlet Ring Any Bells 
Its obvious.
Final answer.
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Nicholas Dodd: Treasured Island
John DuPrez: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
- this is 5 min. suite on a Silva Screen compilation called "The Crimson Pirate". A piratical compilation.
- this was the short preceeding "Monty Python's Meaning of Life" with office buildings replacing ships.
Trevor Jones: Nate and Hayes (aka Savage Islands)
Theodore Shapiro: Pirates - The Band of Misfits
There were a couple of Hammer films whose titles escape me at the moment. "Pirates of Blood River" was one, (comp. Gary Hughes). But as I recall there was not a great deal of swash-and-buckle. Lots of sneaking around music.
They had gone up river to elude the Royal Navy and look for supplies. It was a pirate movie, not on the high seas but on the regular Hammer locations.
Some of the versions of C.S. Lewis' "Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (David Arnold, Geoffrey Burgon - not so much in the Burgon version) , feature some Korngoldesque moments whenever the Errol Flynn mouse leaps into action.
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The Crimson Pirate has already been mentioned of course, but I'll also put in a good word for Alwyn's The Swiss Family Robinson, which has some piratey sounding music (like that great main title)... though it doesn't necessarily accompany the pirates in the movie!
Also, Clifton Parker's Damn the Defiant (released on CD by FSM) deserves a mention even though it's more of just a seafaring thing than a pirate thing. But IMO it's not at all far removed from Parker's score to Disney's Treasure Island (which I think someone already mentioned above). Check this out:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/store/MP3/1004/01%20Damn%20the%20Defiant!%20Main%20Title.mp3
That's the good stuff, IMO!
My favorite two though are probably Korngold's The Sea Hawk and Debney's CutThroat Island. I can listen to both repeatedly in complete 2CD form, and never tire of them...
Yavar
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Pretty much what many have said - but my first fond memory of pirate music is Swashbuckler, among first 10 or so soundtracks I owned as a teenager.
I love the very different approach in the main title of Swashbuckler, focusing more on the Caribbean milieu and rolling waves. And it's a crackerjack album, even when it starts very closely pastiching Classical music (Schubert's Unfinished Symphony for one).
Korngold's Sea Hawk is one of my two favorites of his, along with Robin Hood. Grateful for the complete and longer versions, but I just adore the Utah Symphony version from the 80's.
I too wish for a fuller treatment of Parker's Treasure Island, and like Yavar think of Damn the Defiant along similar lines. But I'm grateful for the suite. I want all Parker's music for those Disney 50's flicks, especially the Robin Hood one.
And I enjoy Zimmer and Co's first three Pirates scores. I love Jack's theme and the wonderful song that opens 3. Was a bit disappointed by the fourth though I love Rodrigo y Gabriela both for their own music and in this milieu. Don't think I've even listened to the latest film's score.
I loathe the 90's extravagance of Cutthroat Island so much I've never given the score much of a chance. But not too long ago I listened to a good bit of the LLL version and found myself enjoying it more. It's just a little too much on overdrive, and to me, pirates do NOT need a choir. Unless they're singing the hilarious song in Sea Hawk.
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