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
Roland Kaiser Roland Kaiser Roland Kaiser (born May 10, 1952 in Berlin as "Ronald Keiler") is a schlager singer-songwriter from Germany. He is one of the most successful German speaking schlager-singers. Keiler was working as a marketing executive in a car firm where he was discovered by the German music producer Gerd Kämpfe. In 1974, he released his first single under the stage name of Roland Kaiser - "Was ist wohl aus ihr geworden?" - and in 1976 he got his first chart placement with "Frei, das heißt allein" which reached number 14 on the West-German top list. In 1980, he competed