Git. Foiled again.

Probably the same way Jethro Tull won the acoustic award for Aqualung. Sometimes there's something out there that just deserves an award and they don't have a category for it. I think they just spin a roulette wheel to decide which category they are going to sacrifice to give the award.

"if there was vocals saying "Batman" how did it win a grammy for best instrumental exactly?"

Well, is it a song? One word does not a song make -- it's certainly no song. It may not be technically "instrumental", but if we define "an instrumental" as "any piece of music that isn't a song"....

But it was a piece of absolute genius -- it captured the primary-colour-comic-hero feel in a way none of the Spiderman, Hulk etc etc cartoons, live-action serieses and feature films failed to do. A blend of music and abstract lyric, like a comic itself is a blend of drawing and short text. Compare with the prosaic-yet-wordy "spiderman, spiderman, does whatever a spider can" or the 60s Hulk's music-only opening and closing titles.

But for all that, it's still naff! Simulateous geniusness and naffness -- a truly remarkable accomplishment!

Big up -- nuff respeck -- etc.

If somebody tried to claim half of the royalties for writing the lyrics (one word repeated), it would be laughed out of court. Just because voices were used as one of the instruments doesn't really make it a song. A working technical definition of "Instrumental" might be "anything without a lyrics-writer credit."

I love the description "It was part serious, part silly: just like the series." It was just right.

...and a bottle of rum.

Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel.

Geez, that really dates me, I remember the series as first runs. Of course, it was the 60's.

..."If you remember the 60's you weren't there!"

For the same reason Frank Zappa's Grammy award winning Jazz From Hell had a PMRC Warning Offensive Lyrics sticker despite being a true instrumental work and completely lyric free.

There's also the fact it got a Grammy award when none of the Grammy panel had listen to a single note...