“Ballad on the island of Gilligan” is surely one of the most important television themes of all time, and not only because of its general popularity. For any reason, the beloved theme has endured multiple music debacles and a curved controversy since the moment when the creator of the show Sherwood Schwartz and the songwriter George Wyle put it in existence.
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First of all, the recording of the theme song of “Gilligan’s Island” was as Slapstick as the show itself, with a studio in a hurry at the house of director Melville Shavelson which took place at the same time as he and his wife organized a large charity event. “The Ballad on the island of Gilligan” then overhauled for the second season of the Sitcom CBS. While the first season included a version of the melody interpreted by the folk group The Wellingtons and which omitted the teacher’s names (Russell Johnson) and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells), the second season made its debut with a whole new iteration, this time sung by Pop Quartet The Eligible, with all the names of the distribution members included.
But they were not the only strange events produced by this famous television theme song. Years after the release of the series, the theme of “Gilligan’s Island” sparked a bizarre trial which saw him armed by a resident of Laguna Beach who was locked in a current dispute with his neighbor on a lawn of lawn. Schwartz surely did not count that his sea can was used for psychological warfare, but that’s exactly what happened. Just in case this was not enough for a theme song, there was also the moment when a pop group created a “Gilligan’s Island” in Heaven “and managed to continue almost in oblivion by the legends of English rock.
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Gilligan’s Island’s theme song has almost led to another trial
Even “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle” is not as famous as “Stairway to Heaven”, although it is probably one of the only television themed songs that could compete with the classic Zeppelin LED in 1971. It is always difficult to imagine why you may want to mix both, but for any reason, a little-known pop group did exactly that with “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island “.
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As a music journalist Eric Alper Tells in a post chronicle the creation of this useless mash-up, “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island” was “created” by the group of San Francisco Little Roger & The Goosebumps, which published the song as single in 1978. here But that’s about exactly what you imagine: the music of “Stairway to Heaven” with the words of “La Ballade de l’île de Gilligan”.
As a cynical attempt to court the attention, the blow seemed to work – at least somewhat. “Stairway to Gilligan’s Isle” remains the song for which Little Roger and The Goosebumps are best known, the group would have produced the single to win their sets during an exhausting tour calendar. According to the book “Led Zeppelin and philosophy: everything will be revealed,” Little Roger & The Goosebumps has at least recreated everything themselves, playing the games and now the melody of Zeppelin’s original song while managing to include each of Sherwood Schwartz’s words for “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Isle” – although the words used are in fact the first season of season 2.
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Given the single which made its debut in May 1978 on the group’s own splash label records, they could easily have used the more complete words of season 2, although it would not matter, because it took less than a month to Zeppelin lawyers to threaten legal measures unless all the remaining copies are destroyed – an order that the group has conscientiously followed. Almost 50 years later, it is strange to think that if this trial had advanced, it would not be the strange to come from “the ballad of the island of Gilligan”.
