Splish Splash (song) (possibly a play on Murray the K). It was also featured as a DTV music video on The Disney Channel, set mostly to clips of Disney characters bathing, particularly from the 1948 cartoon "Mickey and the Seal" (illustrating the singer's bath in the first verse), but also "Mickey's Birthday Party" (to illustrate the party he walks in on). Kevin Spacey performs the song in the Bobby Darin biopic "Beyond the Sea". The song was also featured on an insert on Sesame Street where the Zoo keepers at the Bronx Zoo are washing the elephants. The song can also be heard
Beyond the Sea (film) came from foreign production companies, Spacey performed six songs at the November 2003 American Film Market. Lions Gate Entertainment quickly picked up the distribution duties and Spacey found enough investors from England and Germany to continue to move forward on production. In addition, Spacey declined to be paid for his work as actor, director, co-writer and producer on "Beyond the Sea". A portion of the $25 million budget came from his own Trigger Street Productions. Producer Arthur Friedman, who had shepherded the biopic since 1987, commented that he and Spacey experienced creative differences during pre-production. Friedman remarked that he was