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John Williams' guitar composition of the Deer Hunter was originally Cavatina, I think!

Thank you for pushing me a bit...my memory was defective, but not totally off the mark.

Thanks to the magic of amazon.com and google.com, I was able to find the info below at:

http://plum.cream.org/williams/biog2.htm

In 1969, (John) Williams met film composer and arranger Stanley Myers, who was working
on the score of the film "The Walking Stick". Myers played a short piece on the
piano, which he was thinking of using as one of the motifs for the film's score,
but on hearing the three bars, John immediately became excited and encouraged Myers to
develop the theme, not only for the purposes of the film, but as a guitar tune.

Myers took the advice, developed the tune and invited Williams to play it on the
movie's soundtrack. The film isn't notable, and the piece of music didn't become
famous for another decade, when it was re-used for another film. The later film
was The Deer Hunter, and the piece of music: Cavatina... Since that time,
Williams and the piece have been inextricably linked, an association of which he
is evidently proud, having recorded it on no less than four separate occasions.

LOL! I guess for an Okie, my musical tastes must not all that crude...if I fell for
a song that seems to have caught John Williams' fancy as well!