1966 Batman & Robin lp that features members of Sun Ra's Arkestra
 

In 1966, the Tifton Record Company's efforts to cash in on the popularity of the Batman TV show resulted in the release of an LP called Batman and Robin. Though the jacket credited “The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale”, the musicians were in fact members of Sun Ra’s Solar Arkestra and The Blues Project. The wonderful folks at WFMU have made this unlikely collaboration's wonderfully infectious music available for your downloading pleasure. It's very fun, lively stuff, with a warm and rollicking sound.

got this as a reissue on 180 g vinyl LP about 4 years ago... interesting yet i wouldn't consider this a good representation of the Arkestra's full potential on recordings like Helicoentric World's Vol. I & II, Other Planes of There, Magic City, When The Sun Comes Out, Atlantis, Space Is The Place... etc.

btw, Sun Ra has always had the most killer reed section ever out of any freeform jazz group at any time, nothing beats the trio of John Gilmore, Pat Patrick and Marshall Allen... John Gilmore was a primary influence on the "free sound" of late-Coltrane. and Le Sonny Ra's futuristic experimentation w/ electronic synthesizers put him above and beyond any other group that could come close, listen to some of those early 70's recordings for total mind expansive destruction.

I have a Dan & Dale record, but I think it's James Bond-related rather than Batman.

i have the batman & robin 1. it's great!

I posted about this a long while ago.Excellent stuff,now let's move on.

Al Kooper (The Blues Project) is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly a guitarist) that became a keyboardist by providential accident. He was hanging around during the recording of "Like a Rolling Stone" during the Highway 61 Revisited (1965) sessions and played some off-kilter, simple-but-creative lines on the Hammond organ. After Bob heard him, he knew it was just what he was looking for in his sound.