TV's Biggest Hits by Jon Burlingame, published in 1996, focuses exclusively on TV theme songs, and includes an interview with Hefti about the creation of the Batman theme song. However, Neal Hefti, the writer of the theme, stated that the chorus was made up of eight singers, one of whom jokingly wrote on his part, "word and music by Neal Hefti". Adam West's book Back to the Batcave also fuels this rumor by claiming the chorus is instrumental, not vocal. A long-held myth purports that the chorus is actually a group of horns. The eleven cries of "Batman!" are sung by a chorus of four tenors and four sopranos (performed by The Ron Hicklin Singers).
It has a twelve bar blues progression, using only three chords until the coda. This song is built around a guitar hook reminiscent of spy film scores and surf music.
Overall, just think of Robin saying "Support your police!" & Batman responding "Well said, Robin." and you get an idea that while the series was corny, it at least had a moral compass always."Batman Theme", the title song of the 1966 Batman TV series, was composed by Neal Hefti. The cliff hangers & fights from these are now classic, & some of the plots were pretty corny, while others showed imagination. At least they were 3 great seasons & all in color. This was an ABC series which would have lasted longer, but CBS had such a power house line-up, this was lucky to make it 3 seasons. Alan Ladd, Vincent Price, Otto Preminger, Art Carney, Roddy Mcdowell to name a few villains. It is a who's who of character actors from that era. The amazing thing about this series was the amount of great actors & actresses they got to play the criminals. Ceasar Romero's Joker was so good that Jack Nicholson had to take the character in new directions in the film to avoid direct comparison. Frank Gorshin's Riddler has never been equaled. Burgess Meredith made a great Penguin - especially when he runs for mayor of Gotham City against Batman and proclaims "I should have gotten into politics sooner because in campaigns, all my dirty bird tricks are legal now!" Imagine that, & this is before Nixon got caught. To me the criminals were most often the stars of this. Burt Ward's Robin was often reactive with many Holy Blanks!! & while he was mostly a sidekick for Batman, sometimes when the Caped Crusdaer was tied up, he & the faithful Alfred would manage things. No matter how outlandish Robin or a super criminal was, West would always appear to take things in stride & have a straight face when he would pull something out of his utility belt to handle the problem. His straight face was always what held thing together. Adam West not only was Batman, in this series he was straight man.
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