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
Ken Kaiser who noted that Kaiser usually "marched to the beat of his own drummer" in his autobiography, "You're Out and You're Ugly, Too". Kaiser's 2003 autobiography, written with the help of author David Fisher, is entitled "Planet of the Umps: A Baseball Life From Behind the Plate". Kaiser died from complications of diabetes almost two weeks after his 72nd birthday. Ken Kaiser Kenneth John Kaiser (July 26, 1945 – August 8, 2017) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1977 to 1999. He spent 13 years in the minor leagues and 23 years