Billboard Magazine says that Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians (with vocal by Bob Hamlin) recorded a song called LITTLE BUTCH, released as a 78-rpm record, Capitol 20004, around September, 1944, b/w SWEET LEILANI,

ASCAP.com says Harry Owens wrote it.

I haven't heard the song, so that's all I can provide.

(Note that I am reviving a very old thread here.)