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Can anyone confirm that the time signature for Cavatina, is 3/4?

Yes. Cavatina is in 3/4.

It does rather depend who is playing it - I heard it played once in what I could only describe as "1"! That is rather like Martin Carthy playing a very obscure folk song!

Played properly (!) it makes an excellent ballroom waltz, i.e. 3/4 time.

I've played it to the UBH backing track for our ballroom dancing club.

Could someone please convince the drummer at our local Shadows club that it is 3/4?
He insists that it is 12/8........

Take a look at this
confims 3/4 time signature

regards
Jay

That is exactly how I see it Jay.

bazmusicman wrote:He insists that it is 12/8........

By any chance does he also . . .
Refuse to use anything but sticks?
Idly tap his drums before the set starts and in between tunes?
Refuse to balance his volume to match the rest of the band so that the overall level creeps up and up?
(Lessons 1, 2 and 3 from the book How to be an annoying drummer)

bazmusicman wrote:Could someone please convince the drummer at our local Shadows club that it is 3/4?
He insists that it is 12/8........

Remind him that this number works perfectly well without drums...

The only drum beat that is of importance in Cavatina, is the second beat of the bar which should be a rim shot.
That advice is straight from the guv'nor , B.B. 'cause I asked him when I worked with him - and yes, it's 3/4 - but what does he know ?