Peter Auty Walking in the air lyrics

"Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film of Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book The Snowman. In the film the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty. For the subsequent single release, which reached number five in the UK pop charts in 1985, the vocals were sung by Welsh chorister Aled Jones, who became a popular celebrity on the strength of his performance. Jones' version was not an official The Snowman tie-in though it was authorised by Howard Blake. "Walking in the Air" has subsequently been covered by several different artists, in a variety of styles.
The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman, which has become a seasonal perennial on British television. The story relates the fleeting adventures of a young boy, and a snowman who has come to life. In the second part of the story, the boy and the snowman fly to the North Pole. "Walking in the Air" is the theme for the journey. They attend a party of snowmen, at which the boy is the only human. They meet Father Christmas and his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern.
Howard Blake developed the melody of "Walking in the Air" from a theme in his 'Lullaby - A Christmas Narrative', an a cappella choral work commissioned by The Scholars (Vocal Group) in 1975 and first performed by them at St John's Smith Square, London on 21 December that year.Walking in the Air is the fourth single by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, released as the third single from the album Oceanborn.[1]
The song was played live between 1999 and 2003, but wasn't played during the Once Upon a Tour. On September 19, 2009, Nightwish performed Walking in the Air with the current frontwoman, Anette Olzon,[2] and with the English musician Troy Donockley playing the Uilleann Pipes. In this song, Marco and Emppu played two classic guitars.
The single was certified with Gold Disc in Finland with more than 5.000 sold copies, and it reached the number-one spot in the Finnish Official Single charts.

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[Lobsangtheferret]

Nobody sing it so beautiful as Peter Auty:)

[badwolf2901]

Always has been my favourite song, always will be.

[SMALLWORLDER201]

Pencils*

[SMALLWORLDER201]

Cant believe this was made with coloured penxijs

[wantpussyinclub]

@Fahmida123  i think it is aled jones

[srskittles7]

I would like to try to sing this

[Fahmida123]

I would'nt have ever been able to tell that this is not Aled Jones on the vocals