I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" was a hit single in 1967 composed by British songwriters Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. It was a novelty record, performed mostly by whistling. The name Whistling Jack Smith, credited on the most commercially successful recording, was a play on the name of the baritone singer of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, Whispering Jack Smith. The tune was written by Greenaway and Cook and was originally titled "Too Much Birdseed". It was recorded as a single for Deram Records by record producer Noel Walker, using studio musicians together with the
Kaiser (surname) Forest area, and to a lesser extent Southern Germany. It is also used in Austria and the Czech Republic. Variation spellings rooted in the Kaiser surname are Kayser, Keiser, Kiser, and Kyser. Dutch cognates of the surname include Keizer, (De) Keijzer, (De) Keyser, and Dekeyser. Kaiser (surname) Kaiser is a surname derived from the German imperial title "Kaiser" (English: emperor). The title "Kaiser" is in turn derived from the Latin title "Caesar", which again is a derivation from the personal name of a branch of the "gens" (clan) Julia, to which belonged Gaius Julius Caesar, the forebear of the first