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Interesting. I went looking for covers and didn’t find the Jam’s or the Who’s out on any of the download sites. I like the pace and energy of the Jam’s cover on the video, if you could point me to the Who’s cover I would love to hear it as well. Most covers I found were pretty flat as I looked this afternoon.
I once had it on Who bootleg. It a horror comics type cover and was called something like “It came from the Crypt”. It also included The Who covering the Stones’ Under My Thumb.
This reminds me of being in the first grade. We had an “orchestra comes to school” day. They were set up in our gym, no stage, just our folding chairs facing their folding chairs. Didn’t know much about music then, but knew that, with all the classical instruments, the “cool” thing to do was to be bored. We all sat down, a bit restless. A familiar trumpet flourish. They fired up _Batman_. A really kicking orchestration, the guitar part handled by the whole string section, pizzicato. Woodwinds taking the vocals. The brass section had every “biff” and “pow” accent just right. The boom of the timpani coming through the air and up through the floor. They stretched it probably twice as long as it runs at the start of the show. My ears rang. I learned where music comes from that day. I’ve enjoyed orchestral music ever since.
Good story Bill, my own is less favorable to me. My Mom was principal of the pre-preschool I was in Guam I think. We had some school function and I was in a line of kids in front of the microphone. I stepped forward and sang the Batman theme into the mic, much to the amusement of the audience and the horror of the school principal. I wasn’t ever let near a microphone again for quite a long time after that.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
The Jam was a fun band, but very derivative. Especially of The Who which did a Batman cover circa 1968.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Interesting. I went looking for covers and didn’t find the Jam’s or the Who’s out on any of the download sites. I like the pace and energy of the Jam’s cover on the video, if you could point me to the Who’s cover I would love to hear it as well. Most covers I found were pretty flat as I looked this afternoon.
February 15th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I once had it on Who bootleg. It a horror comics type cover and was called something like “It came from the Crypt”. It also included The Who covering the Stones’ Under My Thumb.
Here is another Who boot that includes ‘Batman’. ‘Alternate Rarities’:
http://www.thewho.info/boot1.htm
February 15th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
This reminds me of being in the first grade. We had an “orchestra comes to school” day. They were set up in our gym, no stage, just our folding chairs facing their folding chairs. Didn’t know much about music then, but knew that, with all the classical instruments, the “cool” thing to do was to be bored. We all sat down, a bit restless. A familiar trumpet flourish. They fired up _Batman_. A really kicking orchestration, the guitar part handled by the whole string section, pizzicato. Woodwinds taking the vocals. The brass section had every “biff” and “pow” accent just right. The boom of the timpani coming through the air and up through the floor. They stretched it probably twice as long as it runs at the start of the show. My ears rang. I learned where music comes from that day. I’ve enjoyed orchestral music ever since.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Good story Bill, my own is less favorable to me. My Mom was principal of the pre-preschool I was in Guam I think. We had some school function and I was in a line of kids in front of the microphone. I stepped forward and sang the Batman theme into the mic, much to the amusement of the audience and the horror of the school principal. I wasn’t ever let near a microphone again for quite a long time after that.