Description: Legend of jazz, television and film - listen to his music.
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From an interview of Neal Hefti by Forrest Patten, September 7, 2004, for Journal into Melody:
Forrest: And, of course, there was the theme music from the TV series, Batman .
Neal: That one came very hard to me. It took me a couple of months to write. I had seen some footage and I knew how outrageous it had to be. So I needed to write a piece of music that was equally so. Well, when I first took the theme in to demonstrate it for Lionel Newman and the series producer at Twentieth Century Fox, I had to sing it and play it on the piano. Well, I’m no singer, and I’m no pianist. But I had Lionel and the producer, Bill Dozier, listening to me. My first thought was that they were goin