CAVATINA
Created on 01/10/2003Latest update on 11/08/2026
Artist: Stanley Myers
Author: Joachim Raff
Label: MGM
Year: 1970
As a piano piece in thriller The Walking Stick with Samantha Eggar and David Hemmings.
Covers:
- 1971:
John Williams [on his LP Changes, produced by composer Stanley Myers; guitar version used in film The Deer Hunter ('79)]
- 1976:
Cleo Laine & John Williams [as He Was Beautiful]
- 1979:
Vince Hill [as When You Walk Through Life]
- 1979:
Shadows [n°1 NL & B as Theme From The Deer Hunter]
- 1979:
Tommy Tedesco [second voice in the John Williams version for The Deer Hunter]
- 1979:
Iris Williams [as He Was Beautiful; top 20 UK]
- 1982:
Marco Bakker [as Jij Bent Een Droom Voor Mij]
- 1991:
Shirley Bassey [as He Was Beautiful]
- 1991:
Shirley Bassey [as He Was Beautiful]
Not to be confused with the aria from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. There's a version recorded on Nellie Melba in 1907, saveguarded in urnes, buried underneath the Paris Opera later that same year.
