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Prince was an avid Batman fan and as it turns out the original 60s TV show theme was the first piece of music he'd ever taught himself to play. Batman is the eleventh studio album by Prince and the soundtrack album to the 1989 film Batman. It was released on June 20, 1989, by Warner Bros. Records. As a Warner Bros. stablemate, Prince's involvement in the soundtrack was designed to leverage the media company's contract-bound talent as well as fulfill the artist's need for a commercial revival. Th

Big Daddy Kane speaks on being cut from the 1989 ‘Batman’ 🦇 soundtrack hit "Batdance." The track produced and recorded in 1989 boasts two verses from Big Daddy Kane, which he reportedly came up with on the spot in the studio. The Hip Hop Remix was deemed too much of a risk by the label (Warner Bros) and subsequently shelved, Prince and producer John Luongo's "Batdance" (Remix) combines Kane's bars with new vocals from Prince and a chop of the 1960s Batman theme. The end result is a funked up bo