True or False

[Hopkirk]

In the Channel 4 movie 'The Snowman', the song 'Walking in the Air' was sung by Aled Jones.

[craft1948]

False

[tiggerblue10]

False

[Hopkirk]

Well done.

Who was it then?

[dotty.]

but he did have the hit with it,

[dotty.]

peter auty

[naomi24]

Is it false? I thought it was true. Oh well, what do I know?

[Hopkirk]

Have a cigar

[NazNomad]

Peter Auty

[NazNomad]

ah, bu99er

[Hopkirk]

This is my version of a round of General Ignorance on QI.

Has anyone got any more questions to add?

[naomi24]

So why does Jones get the credit?

[ummmm]

Because he did sing it. Just not on the movie...

[tiggerblue10]

Because he did a recording of it afterwards which went into the charts.

[Hopkirk]

From Wikipedia:

The song "Walking in the Air" is sung in the film by chorister Peter Auty, who was not credited in the original version, although had a credit added for the 20th anniversary version. The song was covered several years later by Welsh chorister Aled Jones in a single which reached number 5 in the UK charts. Jones is often wrongly assumed to have sung the song in the film

[Invictas]

This from the IMdB
Peter Auty
1969


Birth Name
Peter Robert Auty


Trivia
Continues to be an opera singing star into adulthood.

He was paid only £300 for his version of "Walking in the Air" for The Snowman (1982), and was left uncredited due to the rush to get the film released.