Open Culture:
>Ray Ellis had a six-decade career as a producer, arranger, and jazz composer. And while he’s best known for arranging music for Billie Holiday’s Lady in Satin (1958), he also enjoyed a long career orchestrating music for television. Working under a pseudonym “Yvette Blais” (his wife’s name), Ellis composed background music for the cartoon studio Filmation between 1968 and 1982. And, during the late 60s, he notably created the background and incidental music for the original Spider-Man cartoons.
If you watch/listen to this, I guarantee you’ll be singing the theme song for the rest of the day.
That is particularly hilarious if you ever saw the short film “The Marvel Symphonic Universe.” Watch it through to the very ending.
https://youtu.be/7vfqkvwW2fs
Hell of a page. It annotates every track. A lot of it was taken from British KMP Music Library material (with titles like “The Juggernaut” and “Action Stations”), which also appears in old NFL short films that cover specific games of the 60s and 70s.
So, while Spidey and His Orchestra is hurrying across Manhattan to stop Electro, Joe Namath is also about to get his knees pounded to crap again.
Bonus points and duckets for the Broadway Joe nod.
I’ve come to sympathize with that particular sort of discomfort. Also, his was the only name I could remember at the moment.