Williams requested that Stanley Myers expand a brief musical phrase into a full guitar arrangement, which was then used in the 1970 film The Walking Stick.
“. The piece originally included only the first few bars of the tune as it is known today, but at Williams' request Myers rewrote and expanded it into the better-known guitar arrangement. After this transformation, it was used for a film, The Walking Stick , in 1970. In 1973, Cleo Laine wrote lyrics and recorded it as the song ”
Williams describes his music as both satirizing films that overuse themes and showing how versatile a single theme can be.
“Williams' music is a parody of the movies' frequent overuse of a theme, and a demonstration of how adaptable a theme can be.”