Aled not voice on Xmas film.Byline: BRIAN USHER ALED Jones
Aled Jones (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. was not the original voice on the theme song to The Snowman, it was revealed yesterday. For 20 years, fans of Raymond Briggs' classic Christmas cartoon believed the Welsh chorister sang Walking in the Air. Jones later recorded a version but in 1982 it was Peter Auty, a 13-year-old St Paul's chorister, who was paid pounds 300 to sing composer Howard Blake's song. In the rush to finish the film Auty was left off the closing credits. This has now been rectified. Auty, now 33, said: "It's great to have my name on the film after all this time. "It didn't really bother me that everyone thought it was Aled but I think my mum and dad were quite miffed miff n. 1. A petulant, bad-tempered mood; a huff. 2. A petty quarrel or argument; a tiff. tr.v. miffed, miff·ing, miffs To cause to become offended or annoyed. ." A spokesman for Anglesey-born Jones said: "Aled sang the song later but people got it into their minds it was him on the film as well." The Snowman producer John Coates Professor John Henry Coates, FRS (born January 26, 1945) is a mathematician who holds (since 1986) the position of Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. said it was time to put the record straight. CAPTION(S): MIX UP: Aled |
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