Genre: Pop, Classical, Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Contemporary, Vocal Year: 1982 Source: Blu-ray, The Snowman "Walking in the Air" is a song written by Howard Blake for the 1982 animated film The Snowman based on Raymond Briggs' 1978 children's book of the same name. The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman, which has become a seasonal favourite on British and Finnish 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 seems to be the only human until they meet Father Christmas with his reindeer, and the boy is given a scarf with a snowman pattern. In the film, the song was performed by St Paul's Cathedral choirboy Peter Auty, and reissued in 1985 (on Stiff Records) and 1987. In 1985, an altered version was recorded for use in a TV advertising campaign for Toys "R" Us. While believed that Auty's voice had then broken, Auty claimed in an interview with BBC Breakfast News on 2nd December 2022 that his voice had not broken and he was never contacted for the recording. Blake recommended the then-14-year-old Welsh chorister Aled Jones, whose recording reached number five in the UK Singles Chart, and who became a popular celebrity on the strength of his performance. The association of the song with Jones, combined with Auty not being credited on The Snowman, led to a common misbelief that Jones performed the song in the film. "Walking in the Air" has subsequently been performed by over forty artists, in a variety of styles. In a UK poll in 2012, the Aled Jones version was voted 13th on the ITV television special The Nation's Favourite Christmas Song. In 1998, Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish covered the song for their second studio album, Oceanborn, in a power ballad style. It spent eighteen weeks on the Finnish charts, peaking at number one for a week. The band named the compilation Walking in the Air: The Greatest Ballads after this song. The song was performed regularly during Tarja Turunen's time with the band as the lead singer; after her departure, she went on to record her own version for her 2006 winter album Henkäys Ikuisuudesta. Nightwish's founding member, composer, songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen had stated that it is his all-time favourite piece of music. The Shadows made an instrumental cover, it's the fifth track on their Themes & Dreams album and is included as the second audio track in this release. Release Info The video track is upscaled to 4K with Topaz Video Enhance AI and encoded to HEVC. The first PCM track is the original track from the Blu-ray (24-bit 48 kHz), sung by Peter Auty. The second PCM track is an instrumental cover by The Shadows, synced with Adobe Audition. The timed lyrics are synced and edited. Enable the subtitles to see the lyrics. 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