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.Above, hear Ray Ellis’ Spider-Man soundtrack. The show’s talking parts and sound effects have been removed as much as possible, then “pieced back together into complete form,” by a YouTuber who uses the moniker “11db11.” All of the music from Season 1 is included, plus many recordings from Seasons 2 and 3. It’s worth noting that the 52 episodes from the original 1967 Spider-Man TV series have been completely restored. You can purchase them on DVD online.Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2017.Related Content:Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and MoreThe Mathematics of Spiderman and the Physics of SuperheroesCrime Jazz: How Miles Davis, Count Basie & Duke Ellington Created Soundtracks for Noir Films & TVWatch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958)Every Spider-Man Movie and TV Show Explained By Kevin Smith