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I'd buy a tv soundtrack in a heartbeat, sorry Batbeat.
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What Lukas said:
Way back at the beginning of the FSM CD series, when we were doing some Fox titles, we actually transferred a few of the mono Nelson Riddle scoring masters (before we learned that the ownership would make the licensing impossible). We did the Batman movie instead as its ownership was much simpler. I have to tell you...the TV scores were amongst the most annoyingly repetitive and drab things I had ever heard! Sorry...
Lukas
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I opened this one for xmas thinking, "Nelson Riddle doing a score?"
[eyeroll]
"and doing BATMAN?????"
[eyeroll]
And then I listened, and really liked it. Surprise, surprise.
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This score is so much fun, a very jazzy, breezy listening experience. Nelson Riddle had plenty of scores to his name and he's a primary reason the show and movie were as much fun as they were.
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I took the later expanded La La Land Records release (still a small number of cues missing, but they can only do what they can do) and made some suites. A one minute "Batman" theme suite; a little uneven, but it's all that was on the release.
I think three suites of the love theme; all the renditions would not lend themselves to a singular suite.
Then I made an over seven-minute fight music suite; rather seamless and unless you know where the edits are, you probably wouldn't even readily identify them.
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There's a production detail about the music on this CD that got overlooked in the past that I just discovered today.
Great catch, great documentation, Eric. The gown being re-used is a nice touch. Thanks for that.
I'll bet the movie's costume budget was doing double duty to make the adjacent regular episodes look better. No doubt Adam West is wearing the same finely tailored tuxedo.
Having the ready-made TV batmobile and standing sets on hand made the movie more affordable-- a reverse example of what happened with VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
it's also interesting to note that 20th Century-Fox Television also had a deal with Chrysler Corporation, and Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred drove a Imperial Crown Ghia limousine in the episode "Come Back Shame" and Wayne drove a Crown convertible in the "Batman" feature film's opening scene.
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The pirate crew costumes were seen on Voyage twice and, naturally, the film used the Seaview set.
TV Guild listings always called this "a quickie made to cash in on the tv show" but I always found it to be really funny and a good time. It was certainly better than a lot of the second and third season episodes.
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