<P> `` 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 . The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman , which has become a seasonal favorite 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 . </P>
<P> `` 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 . The song forms the centrepiece of The Snowman , which has become a seasonal favorite 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 . </P>
who sang walking in the air in the snowman
who sang walking in the air in the snowman
Peter Auty
Peter Auty