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What does the last chord of this (mostly vocal) have to do with a capo ?

Did the guitarist use a capo in the studio for this?

I'm not sure where the riddle is in this unless the guitarist was Frank Gorshin. (Now *that* would be a cool piece of trivia, if true…)

This a little bit too obscure, so here it is:

The last chord that is sung, “BAT-MAN !!!l”, is the same “sus” chord that is spelled by the six open strings of a guitar, except it’s four steps higher - in A (thus: “capo”).

well...ON TV it was in A...but youtube is youtube, isn't it?

https://imgur.com/a/Jan40lp

How about this? I didn't listen to it. But from memory listening on TV however many decades ago, and thinking about it, I hear in my memory the last note was a concert A. I think in treble clef Bb trumpet as that is what I've played my whole life.

A special memory with this tune.
The last 3 years I was teaching 3 of my woodwinds were also varsity basketball cheer leaders, and man - they could flat-out dance! I generally led the pep band while working the bass line on Bari sax, and when we played Batman and Land of 1000 Dances those girls put on a show! Nothing naughty, but we all loved their dancing in an energetic and appreciate way, not a dirty old man way.
All 3 are still friends of mine, one is a neighbor and one a wonderful nurse. Good - and talented - people all the way around.
Tim "I can do the mashed potato" Tuba

I remember watching that show when it first came out. My mother told me she read that new technology was developed that allow the overlaying of the cartoon like graphics.

I measured the first few frequencies best I could:
103.5
140
186
208
246
276
308
272
418
492
628

So sure enough, it matches the standard guitar tuning + 4 half steps.

Of course, many composers are also guitarists, and the open string guitar sound (“a sound in their head”) has been used in westerns – typically when things are bleak, and someone is stuck in the middle of a desert (etc.)

The Beatles used it – the very beginning of “A Hard Day’s Night”.