Christmas season is upon us, and my thoughts, like so many others have at this holiday time, turn naturally to Spiderman.
Come again, now?
Pretty obvious. Every December, local television stations pile on the showings of the Rogers and Hammerstien musical "The Sound Of Music" (1965). At the end, Georg von Trapp plays on his guitar the classic Spiderman (1967) theme song as a musical protest againt the encroachment of the Nazi regime. Only the version as Captain von Trapp plays it is downtempo and with different words: he calls the song "Edelweiss" after the little white flower native to free Austria. But the true fans know that the song is really the Spiderman theme.
Don't let the fact that The Sound Of Music was released two years before the Spiderman cartoon fool you, it's still the same song!
Edelweiss, Spiderman
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web any size
Catches thieves like Edelweiss
Next time you're singing along to The Sound Of Music, try on the Spiderman lyrics for size and see if it isn't a perfect fit.
The Sound Of Music is the property of Twentieth Century Fox. Spiderman is the property of Marvel Comics. The classic Spiderman music comes from the KPM Music Library... or does it? Depends on how you feel about time-bending radioactive spiders.
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