Jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Neal Hefti was born 100 years ago today. He was a composer and arranger for the Count Basie Orchestra and the Woody Herman Orchestra, wrote a number of movie and TV themes, including the themes for The Odd Couple and Batman. Here’s the latter.
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This is a great theme and I wish Julie Newmar would have had a dance to this in her costume I’m not gay but she looked great and she was a professional dancer.
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Such a great, memorable theme song, and a pretty good show too.
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Ha! memories of a German student who stayed with us in 1966 when this was very popular over here. She cried when she had to go home as there would be ‘no Batman’.
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🤣🤣🤣
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I love this as a rock song also. The Who covered this back in the 60s…but yea this is the version I’ll always love.
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I like the Who’s version!
The Marketts had a hit with it:
Los Straitjackets did a great version…
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I really like the Marketts version of it as well! First time I ever heard it.
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I’m surprised… The Marketts also did “Out Of Limits”…
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Oh yea! That is the one where Rod Serling sued them for playing his theme at the start…I forgot all about that.
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Excellent theme song!
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Mary’s theory is that a great TV series starts with a great theme song. I have to agree…
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Yes, I agree too!
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A great theme song
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