01/07/2008: "WHAP! BIFF! OOOOOF!"

music: SIRIUS 26 - LEFT OF CENTER

Actually, I'm here to talk about old school Batman.

First - I think this is awesome and am kinda pissed that I didn't think of it first -




Second - I read here a while back that the original Batman theme song has no vocals - the "voices" are actually trumpets.



One night a few months ago while chillin at a friend's house, I tried to convince my group of the same argument. Nobody wanted to believe me and I guess we were to lazy to really look into it. Today I decided to re-investigate the situation (and by re-investigate I mean wikipedia and google).

A simple search of the terms "batman music no trumpets for reals dude" brought me to this wikipedia page entitled "Batman Music"

"The title theme to Batman is one of the best-known theme tunes of all time. Composed by Neal Hefti, the song is built around a minimalistic and foreboding but catchy guitar hook reminiscent of spy film scores and surf music. It is a simple twelve bar blues progression using only three chords until the coda. The lyrics to the theme consist of ten cries of "Batman!", which were originally thought to be sung by a female chorus; however, Adam West's book Back to the Batcave reveals the "voices" to actually be instrumental, rather than vocal. These ten repetitions of "Batman!" were then followed by a coda of "Dadadadadadadadadadadadada...Batman!""

SOCK! POW! BONG! Keith and Matt . . . I was right.

Tune in tomorrow, same bat- . . . oh fuck this . . .