Listen: Eddie Vedder + Daughter Cover ‘Batman’ Theme Adorably

April 21, 2016

Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder is typically an intensely personal guy, but the Seattle rock veteran has apparently loosened up a bit – he’s just offered up a home recording he did with his 7-year-old daughter Harper. It’s a cover of the Neal Hefti-penned theme song to the goofy 1966 “Batman” TV series starring Adam West.

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The track was unveiled by PearlJamOnline, having aired on the new Pearl Jam Radio broadcast on SiriusXM during an interview featuring Vedder and Mark Ian Wilkerson talking about the author’s new book, “Tomas Young’s War”.

The Vedder family band has one previous public release, the very brief ukulele jam “The Traveler” for Cameron Crowe’s 2015 film Aloha:

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We’ll be catching Pearl Jam this summer on tour as they headline Bonnaroo and crisscross the U.S. Check out the full run of tour dates right here.

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