Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""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, being 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, '30s and '40s, Whispering Jack Smith.The song was recorded as a single for Deram Records by record producer Noel Walker, using studio musicians together with the Mike Sammes Singers. The whistling on the record was, according to most sources, by John O'Neill, a trumpeter and singer with the Mike Sammes Singers who was also known for his whistling skills. The song is noted for its false ending, where after the songs ends its last chorus, with a male's voice shouting "Oi" (on the album version) and "Hey" (on the single version), then starts up again with the repeated chorus, and soon fades out.Credited to Whistling Jack Smith, the record rose up the UK singles chart. When it was featured on Top of the Pops, an actor, Coby Wells (real name Billy Moeller, born 1946), who was the brother of Tommy Moeller, lead vocalist, guitarist, and pianist with Unit 4 + 2, was used to mime the whistling, and later toured as the public face of Whistling Jack Smith. The recording reached #5 on the UK singles chart in 1967 staying in the chart for 12 weeks. In the US, Billboard peaked the song at #20."@en }
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- I_Was_Kaiser_Bills_Batman abstract ""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, being 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, '30s and '40s, Whispering Jack Smith.The song was recorded as a single for Deram Records by record producer Noel Walker, using studio musicians together with the Mike Sammes Singers. The whistling on the record was, according to most sources, by John O'Neill, a trumpeter and singer with the Mike Sammes Singers who was also known for his whistling skills. The song is noted for its false ending, where after the songs ends its last chorus, with a male's voice shouting "Oi" (on the album version) and "Hey" (on the single version), then starts up again with the repeated chorus, and soon fades out.Credited to Whistling Jack Smith, the record rose up the UK singles chart. When it was featured on Top of the Pops, an actor, Coby Wells (real name Billy Moeller, born 1946), who was the brother of Tommy Moeller, lead vocalist, guitarist, and pianist with Unit 4 + 2, was used to mime the whistling, and later toured as the public face of Whistling Jack Smith. The recording reached #5 on the UK singles chart in 1967 staying in the chart for 12 weeks. In the US, Billboard peaked the song at #20.".