I've been listening to Sky FM a lot lately for music, in particular the Sky FM Christmas music station. I guess I'm kind of retro when it comes to stereos, as the main stereo in the house is a 15 or so year old silver Cylon-head boombox, typical of how they looked in the 1990s. A few weeks ago, I decided to update it and get it into the Internet age. I plugged a 5 year old laptop computer I got for free into it, and the sound is amazing. The only cost really was a $30 Wifi card, which lets the laptop get the music web stations from the Internet hub without having to have a network cable.
One song I've heard on the Christmas station is "Walking in the Air" by Aled Jones. I loved this song right away, but I can't for the life of me figure out why they are calling it a Christmas song. Give it a listen:
You might want to listen to Sky FM on your computer, even if you are not hooking a dedicated laptop to your stereo. It's free, and they have a wide variety.
Suomi Summer
6 hours ago
7 comments:
"Walking In The Air" was the theme song made famous in the children's Christmas animated film of 1982 of the Raymond Briggs story, "The Snowman"
In the film, the song was sung by boy treble, Peter Auty.
In 1985, "Walking In the Air" was recorded by probably the world's greatest boy treble, Aled Jones, after Aled had been asked to sing it for 'Toys R Us' as their signature tune for the launch of their store in Cardiff, when it had been found that Peter Auty's voice had already broken.
Aled's brilliant recording shot to Number 5 in Top of The Pops, and ever since, has become synonymous with Christmas.
Aled is now a sensational lyric baritone, and in 2006 he recorded a fabulous duet of himself now as an adult with his boy treble voice, the clip of which can be found on Youtube at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEWcOcX_AHQ
Thanks, Susie! I'd never heard or heard of it before 3 days ago, and I figured it was pretty much an "only in England" thing. Like so much other great music.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing it.
Interesting story that goes with it, Susie!
Interesting song, and also thanks to SUsie for the information aboutit. But that's a guy singing?
A little boy, actually.
That's pretty Macguyver-y of you. I should try that at my house.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing, dmarks. I will have to look into Sky FM.
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