https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj1l1bvUS9Y&list=HL1382998169
Here you will see - And hear !!!!!!!!!!! - two different renditions , one vocal and another instrumental , of the song " EV'RY LITTLE BUG " , the song sung , as background noise , by the characters in THE SPIRIT and featured in one section in (I think simplified) sheet music , as well as being separately published as a stand-alone song sheet (Showing Ebony , not Denny , on the front cover and referring to it as " from the comic strip " IIRC .) Will Eisner co-wrote it .
The great man's only musical outing , turning the knob or volume ( " TURN THAT NOISE DOWN !!!!!!!!! " Come , come , he was a Baby Boomer-Ish Dad , after all...) on the Victrola or radio aside :-) ?
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...It would appear that the link is NG , although " hiking " to YT and searching for it will get it just fine...Slugs and slopes have plural hopes , but I am the king of the singular dopes...........:-(
Very interesting. Thanks, E.D.
...The song did get what i believe was its first-ever recording in the Eighties , when Kitchen Sink issued a cutesy ~ 12" picture disc " mini-LP/12-inch singl "e with , IIRC , liner notes on , along with Eisner images , the disc itself pulling off a fraud/hoax in at least trying to give the impression that at least some of the recordings were genuine Eisner-era recordings of the song , used as a theme for an early low-budget THE SPIRIT TV show put on by a Baltimore TV station that simply consisted of shooting a Spirit story and reading aloud the dialogue - complete with pages turning - and some sound effects .
I VERY much tend to doubt that such a show ever existed - although the concept is similar to what I am aware was an early-days-of-Nickelodeon SUGAR AND SPIKE TV " Comic-Vision "series and what I recall as an ULTRA THE MULTI-ALIEN SlideORama show and others?? put on exclusively?? by a Midwestern cable system that I recall being described in THE BUYER'S GUIDE around the late Seventies !!!!!!!!!!!
In other words I DO NOT tend to think there was ever such an early-TV " proto-Gantray-Lawrence MARVEL SUPER-HEROES series" . (Would it have been better than the Frank Miller flick , anyhows:-)????????? Okay , cheap joke I I recall (seeing it a little late and knowing what I was getting) kinda liking the Miller SPIRITflick , but I'm an audience-applause whore !!!!!!!!!!!)
As for the any of the musical renditions of " ELB " (there were five-six on the KS 12") being original film noir-era ones (Oh , and the two up on YT are from that vinyl* - Long , long . lost by me:-( .) - Mighty late-40s modern synthesiesers/electronic keyboards , eh ??:-)???????
*-The vinyl also had some alleged " audio clips " from that Baltimo' show .
...Extreme threadjack time now :-) ~ I just looked up SUGAR AND SPIKE on IMDB , saw nothing MAYBE the difference between " & " and " AND " could be the barre split here !
No ULTRA , neither...........
...Haaah...Entering the " properly improper " " EVR'Y " got me there...or " take you there' , as Mavis sang !!!!!!!!!!!
I'm listening to it again , there's an umtempo-ish " player pianna "-like instrumental and an attempted " chantoozie in a film noir seedy dive " vocal...
Given that there was sheet music for the song, I'm thinkin' someone had to have played and sung "Ev'ry Little Bug" back then--maybe not for recordin' just.
The youtube version t'ain't terribly pleasin' to my ears. I's always pictured someone like Hoagy Carmichael singin' and playin' this here song at the ol' piana [for reference y'all should see: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT]. In a pinch, Harry Connick, Jr., would probably do. Or some such other lazybones, I s'pose.
...Well , Jimmm , under the ol' buttermilk sky of the USA then , in the 40s , the music biz I believe did operate more on the " music publishers/sheet music-oriented " model and , frankly , still sort of in the pre-TV era I guess in 1947 more people DID know a little pianna and people DID , at least in theory , gather around and sing/provide their own entertainment more...
IIRC , HOGAN'S ALLEY , which our own MSA writes for , had some piece a ways ago showing sheet music of songs based on various comic strips that got published (If not nessecarily greatly financially successfully , 'member...) with graphics on the cover and I think even totally regional/one-paper-only local strips had that happen to them then...
Both in the actual Spirit Sections and- I SUPPOSE ? - in actual reality the " pop-operatic " vocalist Robert Merrill performed the song on a nationwide?? radio show...........
...For a possibility as to why " ELB " did not get recorded during the 40s , too , there were two lengthy musicans' strikes during the 1940s (look up James Petrillo and American Federation of Musicians , I haven't time to now .) , perhaps it happened during one of them .