Awesome clip. I got to meet Russell Johnson (SEE: russell johnson book signing) and by posting that clip I guess I'm part of the Gilligan's Island community and I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this video.
Gilligan should have had a sack of Maui Wowie. None of them would have ever wanted to leave. Thanks for this Great Rendition of the Song. Gilligan and Zep Rule.
Some early Zep tunes were based on riffs and lyrics used by old blues and folk guitarists. Big deal. Every song anybody writes is based on a collective conglomeration of their influences. They probably recorded over 100 songs. Why don't you inform us all of which ones were stolen and which songs they were stolen from........well? In fact, in the old folk tradition, it was at one time accepted that riffs, hooks, and lyrics could be borrowed and interchanged. Back when music trumped money.
When I was a young man in Chicago, the radio station I mostly listened to occasionally played a version of this by a band called the Phools, who also did a version of Psycho Killer called Psycho Chicken.
@ivpaul42 You're thinking of The Fools, out of Boston. They still play around to this day. There's a great video from the 80s of "Psycho Chicken" on YouTube.
This was great when came out, often played on sadly taken away KUSF but also facts be known, one can do this with almost ANY Zepp song, as they stole most of their stuff, earning them the name The Thieving Magpies in finer circles of taste and musicology. it was more than humor "their management" and game lacked, it was ethics, much less soul. (c)SGS
I heard this on the radio for the first time and I just about died of glee. Combining such a classic song with one of my childhood favorite shows... <3 <3 you insane genius bastards!
I don't know, I remember reading somewhere where Robert Plant actually loved the song, I suspect it was probably Atlantic Records or whoever is/was representing Led Zeppelin as a whole that went after the guy.
Kind of lame for LZ to get pissed off here...... Stairway to Heaven is a rip off of the great band, Spirit (just put in Spirit, Taurus into search engine). and also understand that LZ opened for Spirit during their first visit to the states.
Of course much of LZ music was ripped off from other sources.
@DrWeirdPro This "Led Zeppelin were ripoffs" thing is so pretentious. Dude, have you ever heard the originals of those songs? They're practically different songs. Of course Zeppelin didn't write them, but they performed them in a completely original way.
Honestly, I don't why I bother reading youtube comments anymore. I would think people could lighten up long enough to have a laugh at a funny song, but apparently not.
Yes it does bring back memories of all sorts. It made learning the song at age 14 that much more fun! WXRT in Chicago used to play it on the radio once in a while circa 1978 ~ 1982. Some day I'll go back and learn that little nugget.
If you're talking about Peter Grant, you're crazy. Peter Grant is known among the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin fans as a great manager. In fact, he was so great Colonel Parker tried to get him to be tour manager for Elvis if Elvis ever toured Europe because Colonel Parker couldn't go to Europe b/c he was an illegal immigrant to the U.S. If you're talking about Richard Cole though, than, yes, he was a scumbag drug-addict.
Thankyou so much for posting this!! I have been telling people for years about this song and nobody believed me!! I heard it on the Dr. Demento radio show a long time ago but could not prove it!..........
its actually not a bad cover and those for whom STH is sacriligous would never accept the idea let alone listen to a cover but as a tribute to Gilligan everyone loves it!
I grew up watching Gilligans Island in reruns. I was too little to remember when it was originally on. I remember jumping on the bed one day and watching the episode where Mr Howell thought they were trying to kill him. I was jumping on the bed screaming run Mr Howell!. Everytime I think about Bob Denver, I think about that goofy dimpled grin of his and that hat he wore all the time. RIP Bob I really miss you )':
What happened to the second verse? "The weather started getting rough.. " They set sail and then all the sudden they're on an island..... ummm no. That's not how the story goes.
Poor Bob Denver May he rest in peace he was funny from his actions and what he did lik de 3stooges curly is funny as hell from his body movements n stuff and he makes de show funny with out Gilligan the show isnt funny at all
Great tribute, nicely done. To: dubarGirl007: I typed into search: russell johnson book signing.....and like you said, it was pretty good. To: johnnyjblair: thanks for the interesting information! Lawyers should be banned from hasseling starving musicians! To: scottydont66: You were lucky, i never got to hear that program.
Awesome video, great rendition of a classic intro. Bet ya had fun recording it, eh? By the way, if you want to see Russell Johnson talk with fans and see fans talk about the series, type into search: russell johnson book signing. Your version of the intro is great, but, I guess the radio stations in my market "missed the boat" 'cause I had never heard it before. five stars!
first heard this i think in the late 70's on the doctor dimento show on 94.7 in l.a. its a modern classic of parody, bringing together one of the all time lows in sitcom (which i loved as a kid, watching each episode probably dozens of times as reruns) and one of the decade's most conflated and self-important ballads. (which i've grown to at least like if not love, in its own right).
Thanks for posting this gem! Little Roger, you were certainly a genius. It's too bad Led Zeppelin and their lawyers didn't have a sense of humor about it. Nonetheless, thanks for composing this for the rest of us. You combined one of the best known rock songs with the opening lyrics to the greatest comedy show of all time!
There was an injunction against this song, many years ago, that prohibited anyone from playing it on the radio. I think Led Zep was behind the injunction but I'm not sure. I heard about this when I was listening to the Dr. Demento show.
@fukyous they did more than threaten to sue they did suethey had louis nizers law firm with private investigators with warrants confiscating tapes from recording studio
prior to this a lawyer from louis nizers law firm said rock music is nothing but yea and baby i said wht do you like he said here you come again by dolly paerton i said thats rock music he also said if someone is executed and they are innocent justice was served
This is just too Damn funny!! I love the song by Led Zep, Its stunning how close the two songs can overlay each other without being relative. Thanks for posting, its made my day!!
God bless Little Roger! I'm so glad to have found this recording years after Zep's management (no sense of humor) ordered Roger (a starving musician) to "cease & desist" in distributing this record (then a vinyl 45). I haven't seen Roger since the early 80s when we were both on a MUNI bus in San Francisco. I play this Gilligan-Stairway sometimes in my own set when someone broke a string and there's down time. Roger, if you're out there, you rock!
@johnnyjblair Did that only apply to the UK? Because I know here in the States parody is protected and this guy could have told Zep to stuff it and there's not a darn thing they could do about it.
that stupid gilligan he was always fouling up their rescue schemes in fact he was responsible for them being marooned for 14 years on that island away from their wealth, away from their friends and family. they did not know if their loved ones were alive or dead. today somebody would have stabbed gilligan with a bamboo knife and served him up for the meatless castaways with an apple in his mouth for a feast
I know, Gilligan was always such a shit-head, but probably inedible. The Skipper would have made better eats. I estimate about 87 sandwiches or 32 steaks.
Goddamn, I love YouTube. All these incredible things I'd heard of but never got the chance to actually. hear. And how freaking cool was Plant to say he approved of this silly masterpiece??
Led Zeppelin didn't get sued. Little Roger and the Goosebumps were sued by Led Zeppelin's lawyers. Years later, Robert Plant claimed he'd never heard of the suit, and gave them permission to re-release.
CRAZY! please be so inthused to check out MY rendition of the Gilligan Theme song...And a roughcut to an old Eagles tune you may recognize also...PLease, I said please.Well I wrote please..lol
OMG-just ran across this and it brings me back 30 years listening to this on the Dr Demento show on Boston radio-was it WAAF? Can't remember, must have killed that brain cell! LOL Brilliantly silly, wonderful throwback to when radio was king and MTV had like 3 videos to play...thanks for posting this gem. Now I need to search for some other old Demento novelty songs and open a beer...
i had always heard about this-remebering little roger from the SF bay area years ago- but have never heard it...Didnt Led Zep lawyers shut this down under threat of legal action? BTW- check out "Stairway to Freebird" here on youtube- funny as hell also....
I would seriously wait all week for the Dr. Demento show, just for the chance he would play this song!! I still love it dearly! Best Parody Ever!!! I mean, EVER!! (And this coming from a rabid Weird AL fan!)
Rumor has it, the Howell's took the 3 hour tour to fake their deaths. They were to be followed by a yacht owned by Aristotle Onassis which was to pluck them from the sea once they were a far distance from the coast. The reason for the death hoax was thought to be the fact that the Howells had secretly planned duel sex change operations in Argentina. Mr. H. was to become Mrs. and vice versa. Their wills had a mysterious condicil that transferred their wealth to Ned Recine.
Well done clip! I also used to listen to this on Dr. Demento, although over the years it faded away to obscurity. When filesharing came out, I stumbled across it again, and immensely enjoyed sharing it with people who had never heard it!
I first heard this on Dr. Demetos show in So. Cal on the wonderful KMET the mighty met, man it must have been 1977 or 1978. How the years go by. I have this on a Zeppelin bootleg album of all things. Whoa, time warp.
Heard this live in the late '70's in Palo Alto (Sophie's ??). Used to see all the Beserkley acts there or in Berkeley itself. Here's what was really funny - several years later this parody was the subject of a Trivial Pursuit question. When it came up and I read it I just started laughing - how many people would have heard of this? That's real trivia for ya...
Visited my hip cousins in Bay area, 1980: Highlights: Got saved, Baptist Rock Climbers in Yosemite; saw punk band competition (fish hooks in skin, etc. etc.) And HEARD Led Zepplin had been deflated by a parody and had sued, so I couldn't get the disk. Ah, You Tube-- Like Gutenberg (sp?) press, freeing the masses! If Zepplin really sued, I think it showed they NEEDED some "deflating!" But we sure liked to dance to the slow part, didn't we, in high school, til fast riff began & tore us all apart.
Its nice to hear from some Dr. Demento fans. The 1st. time I heard this was on his show Sunday evenings in LA on the great 94.7 K.M.E.T. The mighty MET.
That is so classic.
nutballgazette 4 days ago
Makes me want to kill my father and marry my mother...
trguser 4 days ago
thats great wish they'd put that so agian....when i was a kid hehe ....
ben5076 2 weeks ago
interesting, I sing Stairway too.
BillyDoll9 2 weeks ago
This is sick and cool!
Achbar 1 month ago
Read about this in the bathroom reader book! Zepplin sued them over this .
To funny
dhillareguy 1 month ago 2
ROFL
iSparkettei 1 month ago
Little Roger and the Goosebumps, for anyone interested (Might be a nice idea to put the credit in the description, @mayorsam -- just sayin').
Thanks for posting this! I remember the flapdoodle when Peter Grant (manager of Zep) had a conniption / hissy fit over this. Humourless tw@t.
xtcpino 1 month ago
well yeah this was long before creative commons laws and tons of people got sued so hart they shit powder.
Rojetski7 1 month ago
Oh my god Stair way to heaven repaired, Zepplin sucks!
ohsofundaddy 1 month ago
@ohsofundaddy And you're a piece of shit.
stigler30 1 day ago
Can't believe these guys got sued for this. Someone has no sense of humor.
BeatlesExaminer 2 months ago
Thatv is the stupidest shit any one ever mixed..
JDMolet 2 months ago
Giggle and thanks to court rulings Parody is Fair Game!
izelatlan0478 2 months ago 2
OMG KFAT!! Looong time ago....
stvcobbs 2 months ago
LOL....somebody had to get sued
shhme3 2 months ago
@shhme3 Led Zepp "shut 'em down". See the Documentary, Copyright Criminals. :-)
EricSmiles 2 months ago
i vaguely remember this. in retrospect it really was quite good.
tomitstube 2 months ago
I heard this on KPIG many years ago...hilarious!
JohnnyBoySherry 4 months ago
53 people don't know how to fix the radio batteries with some coconuts.
patrick9648 5 months ago 17
Hilarious! I had forgotten about this, but on listening to it just now, I now recall hearing it about three decades ago on the Dr. Demento Show.
Milesco 5 months ago
Awesome clip. I got to meet Russell Johnson (SEE: russell johnson book signing) and by posting that clip I guess I'm part of the Gilligan's Island community and I just wanted to say I really enjoyed this video.
RQVOutdoorMoovies 6 months ago
If you play Stairway to Heaven backwards you WILL hear these lyrics !! I swear !! Trust me !!!!
derek7521 6 months ago
Gilligan should have had a sack of Maui Wowie. None of them would have ever wanted to leave. Thanks for this Great Rendition of the Song. Gilligan and Zep Rule.
MyNickdanger 6 months ago
great solo
coolkid1704 6 months ago
Epic
RevJason1976 6 months ago
RIP Sherwood Schwartz. Brilliant comedy !
nancyalis2 6 months ago 2
R.I.P. Sherwood Schwartz
JSJoyce66 6 months ago 15
you rule thwe earth , poster
aardvark763 7 months ago
ah ha vindication, my friends said i was nuts that this song didn't exist, i heard it back in the 70s cool as hell, from a gilligan and zeppelin fan.
MrRollerderby 7 months ago 3
I don't why but I just started dying laughing at the "ahhhh it makes me wonder" part hahahaha
showman43 7 months ago 2
51 people dont know how to fix a hole in the god damn boat
gmosphere 7 months ago 2
51 people have no sense of humor!
Tafsman 8 months ago
51 castaways are lost on Gilligan's Island
farcepest 8 months ago 3
I remember hearing this on Dr Demento's show when i was a kid!
Scottydont66 8 months ago
LMAO!!
bonzoo07 9 months ago
Some early Zep tunes were based on riffs and lyrics used by old blues and folk guitarists. Big deal. Every song anybody writes is based on a collective conglomeration of their influences. They probably recorded over 100 songs. Why don't you inform us all of which ones were stolen and which songs they were stolen from........well? In fact, in the old folk tradition, it was at one time accepted that riffs, hooks, and lyrics could be borrowed and interchanged. Back when music trumped money.
smithbonz 10 months ago
When I was a young man in Chicago, the radio station I mostly listened to occasionally played a version of this by a band called the Phools, who also did a version of Psycho Killer called Psycho Chicken.
ivpaul42 10 months ago
@ivpaul42 You're thinking of The Fools, out of Boston. They still play around to this day. There's a great video from the 80s of "Psycho Chicken" on YouTube.
thankstogravity 10 months ago
I just tweeted about this - what a hoot!
bearguySF 11 months ago
This was great when came out, often played on sadly taken away KUSF but also facts be known, one can do this with almost ANY Zepp song, as they stole most of their stuff, earning them the name The Thieving Magpies in finer circles of taste and musicology. it was more than humor "their management" and game lacked, it was ethics, much less soul. (c)SGS
howlingsandy 11 months ago
LMFAO!
flipsy87 11 months ago
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weaponxc 11 months ago
When asked, Robert Plant has always said that THIS song is his favourite cover of "Stairway to Heaven". ;)
fannyfae 11 months ago
I heard this on the radio for the first time and I just about died of glee. Combining such a classic song with one of my childhood favorite shows... <3 <3 you insane genius bastards!
gibmiser 1 year ago 2
love this!
twin2ahwoo 1 year ago
it's really shameful for the zeppelins not to admit that they infact were very influenced from this song.!
Shawnhalen 1 year ago 2
a 3 hour toooouuurr
SurgeCess 1 year ago
It scares me how perfectly it all goes together... no wonder they were pissed...lol
cyclerat64 1 year ago
Born and raised in the SF Bay Area..........remember this well. Weren't LR&G out of Davis at the time they recorded this?
emt40ish 1 year ago
I don't know, I remember reading somewhere where Robert Plant actually loved the song, I suspect it was probably Atlantic Records or whoever is/was representing Led Zeppelin as a whole that went after the guy.
leandar 1 year ago
Yeah, LZ is just the 50s run with distortion and 16th notes.
alteregoash 1 year ago
Kind of lame for LZ to get pissed off here...... Stairway to Heaven is a rip off of the great band, Spirit (just put in Spirit, Taurus into search engine). and also understand that LZ opened for Spirit during their first visit to the states.
Of course much of LZ music was ripped off from other sources.
DrWeirdPro 1 year ago
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OreWaUsopp 1 year ago
@DrWeirdPro This "Led Zeppelin were ripoffs" thing is so pretentious. Dude, have you ever heard the originals of those songs? They're practically different songs. Of course Zeppelin didn't write them, but they performed them in a completely original way.
Honestly, I don't why I bother reading youtube comments anymore. I would think people could lighten up long enough to have a laugh at a funny song, but apparently not.
thejesman 1 year ago
thank you! i first heard this on san diego college radio (KCR?) in the 80s and thought i would never hear it again...
ponchocervantes 1 year ago
OMG I WANT TO GO!
CCCcroy 1 year ago
I want the 3.14 minutes of my life back.
foxfire06320 1 year ago
I'm freakin out !!!!!!
jordanjcm 1 year ago
awesome
Dihnekis 1 year ago
Yes it does bring back memories of all sorts. It made learning the song at age 14 that much more fun! WXRT in Chicago used to play it on the radio once in a while circa 1978 ~ 1982. Some day I'll go back and learn that little nugget.
bobrexy 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this song!! It made campfires and talent shows with friends even more interesting back in the 70s..
CAC62 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this song!! Brings back some pleasant memories, believe it or not!!
CAC62 1 year ago
What the hell did I just listen to?
TomSpitzy 1 year ago 3
@TomSpitzy The original song of the Stairway to Heaven cover done by the zeppelins or a term which i dun usually prefer - stole it!
Shawnhalen 1 year ago
I lived in San Jose and bought the original 45's and your right I love led zeppeiin but their manager was a scumbag.....but so be it
ljs2000 1 year ago
@ljs2000
If you're talking about Peter Grant, you're crazy. Peter Grant is known among the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin fans as a great manager. In fact, he was so great Colonel Parker tried to get him to be tour manager for Elvis if Elvis ever toured Europe because Colonel Parker couldn't go to Europe b/c he was an illegal immigrant to the U.S. If you're talking about Richard Cole though, than, yes, he was a scumbag drug-addict.
mapscannotcontainme 1 year ago
Thankyou so much for posting this!! I have been telling people for years about this song and nobody believed me!! I heard it on the Dr. Demento radio show a long time ago but could not prove it!..........
Lorriejude 1 year ago
ARGARK! FRABERJACKALTWOFLY! ANCHLADAKE! ADYUPS-GITALONG!
(STAIRWAY TO GIZZARD SNICKER) thank you very much!
leadman22 1 year ago
so when you play this backwards on a turntable does it reveal satanic messages?
wallofvideo 1 year ago
works with amazing grace too
danalan666 1 year ago
its actually not a bad cover and those for whom STH is sacriligous would never accept the idea let alone listen to a cover but as a tribute to Gilligan everyone loves it!
bhikshuni 1 year ago
funny :D
Xeronios 1 year ago
I grew up watching Gilligans Island in reruns. I was too little to remember when it was originally on. I remember jumping on the bed one day and watching the episode where Mr Howell thought they were trying to kill him. I was jumping on the bed screaming run Mr Howell!. Everytime I think about Bob Denver, I think about that goofy dimpled grin of his and that hat he wore all the time. RIP Bob I really miss you )':
Sheri451 1 year ago
What happened to the second verse? "The weather started getting rough.. " They set sail and then all the sudden they're on an island..... ummm no. That's not how the story goes.
johnpelton 1 year ago
@johnpelton It's moved to the third verse to match the intensity of the storm.
WaterShowsProd 1 year ago
Not bad.
a2cntryboy 1 year ago
Hi-i!
Oh, wow! :O)
That was unbelievable! :D Hahaha! {{{Great job!}}}
Sunshine & Blessings!
pompom914 1 year ago
i first heard this in 1987. but as the last line, the vocalist sang "and he's buying a coconut for ginger."
wallofvideo 1 year ago
Poor Bob Denver May he rest in peace he was funny from his actions and what he did lik de 3stooges curly is funny as hell from his body movements n stuff and he makes de show funny with out Gilligan the show isnt funny at all
MyCarGoZoomZoom 1 year ago
awesome. i had a mushroom flashback !
UNLIMITEDMACKEY 1 year ago
was this show like lost? i never saw either i wouldnt know
ixcreme 1 year ago
Great tribute, nicely done. To: dubarGirl007: I typed into search: russell johnson book signing.....and like you said, it was pretty good. To: johnnyjblair: thanks for the interesting information! Lawyers should be banned from hasseling starving musicians! To: scottydont66: You were lucky, i never got to hear that program.
driveinnut61 1 year ago
Awesome video, great rendition of a classic intro. Bet ya had fun recording it, eh? By the way, if you want to see Russell Johnson talk with fans and see fans talk about the series, type into search: russell johnson book signing. Your version of the intro is great, but, I guess the radio stations in my market "missed the boat" 'cause I had never heard it before. five stars!
dunbarGirl007 1 year ago
First time heard this was when i was kid listening to Dr. Demento show on Sunday nights on KMET 94.7fm
great memories!
Scottydont66 1 year ago
This is freaking awesome!!!
needles1987 1 year ago
I FOUND IT !!!!!
robert plant said this is his favorite version
HES SO FUNNY
z1inspector 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
This is one of the best parody 'covers' ever! Too bad its next to impossible to find the original record (and the first run long version)
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
pokesph 1 year ago
This is one of the best parody 'covers' ever! Too bad its next to impossible to find the original record (and the first run long version)
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
pokesph 1 year ago
Great concept.
coolslim59 1 year ago
I like it man...
odiemean 1 year ago
first heard this i think in the late 70's on the doctor dimento show on 94.7 in l.a. its a modern classic of parody, bringing together one of the all time lows in sitcom (which i loved as a kid, watching each episode probably dozens of times as reruns) and one of the decade's most conflated and self-important ballads. (which i've grown to at least like if not love, in its own right).
Elysius101 1 year ago
i don't know
MoltenMozzarella 1 year ago
Wonderful
dabble778 1 year ago
During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."
MilitaryMan68564 1 year ago
@MilitaryMan68564 YES YES
thats how i finally found it.heard bout it 20 yrs ago
RIP ROINNIE JAMES DIO
whos favorite band was LED ZEPPELIN
z1inspector 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this gem! Little Roger, you were certainly a genius. It's too bad Led Zeppelin and their lawyers didn't have a sense of humor about it. Nonetheless, thanks for composing this for the rest of us. You combined one of the best known rock songs with the opening lyrics to the greatest comedy show of all time!
veracastle9 1 year ago 2
There was an injunction against this song, many years ago, that prohibited anyone from playing it on the radio. I think Led Zep was behind the injunction but I'm not sure. I heard about this when I was listening to the Dr. Demento show.
jacksterner 2 years ago
"Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed."
fukyous 2 years ago 2
@fukyous they did more than threaten to sue they did suethey had louis nizers law firm with private investigators with warrants confiscating tapes from recording studio
prior to this a lawyer from louis nizers law firm said rock music is nothing but yea and baby i said wht do you like he said here you come again by dolly paerton i said thats rock music he also said if someone is executed and they are innocent justice was served
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this! I was looking for it :)
Ugroade 2 years ago 3
I used to cover this when I performed at coffeehouse gigs. Always brought the house down.
Timroff 2 years ago
heard about this in the 70's as a rumour but it's real omg
Verboten1965 2 years ago
This is just too Damn funny!! I love the song by Led Zep, Its stunning how close the two songs can overlay each other without being relative. Thanks for posting, its made my day!!
WNeal0 2 years ago
a comedica plasterpiece
TheRealCritique 2 years ago
God bless Little Roger! I'm so glad to have found this recording years after Zep's management (no sense of humor) ordered Roger (a starving musician) to "cease & desist" in distributing this record (then a vinyl 45). I haven't seen Roger since the early 80s when we were both on a MUNI bus in San Francisco. I play this Gilligan-Stairway sometimes in my own set when someone broke a string and there's down time. Roger, if you're out there, you rock!
johnnyjblair 2 years ago 41
@johnnyjblair Did that only apply to the UK? Because I know here in the States parody is protected and this guy could have told Zep to stuff it and there's not a darn thing they could do about it.
CaptainBugg 1 year ago
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drjnfever 9 months ago
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drjnfever 9 months ago
I never wanted anyone to do a cover of Stairway to Heaven but this is hilarious !!!!
kozseluham 2 years ago 3
greatest song ever!
cApEgUrLzRoX 2 years ago
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waylo4526 2 years ago
You're kind of stupid, I THINK
frankenberry100 2 years ago
What a blast from the past. I remember when Roger and the Goosebumps recorded this. It's great to see the video montage.
GGStringsSF 2 years ago
that stupid gilligan he was always fouling up their rescue schemes in fact he was responsible for them being marooned for 14 years on that island away from their wealth, away from their friends and family. they did not know if their loved ones were alive or dead. today somebody would have stabbed gilligan with a bamboo knife and served him up for the meatless castaways with an apple in his mouth for a feast
atfatw 2 years ago
I know, Gilligan was always such a shit-head, but probably inedible. The Skipper would have made better eats. I estimate about 87 sandwiches or 32 steaks.
TankBanana 2 years ago 6
I'd rather have 'eatin' Maryann !!
derek7521 2 years ago 19
LMFAO, i like your thinkin'
FlyKeithFly 2 years ago
Goddamn, I love YouTube. All these incredible things I'd heard of but never got the chance to actually. hear. And how freaking cool was Plant to say he approved of this silly masterpiece??
Serai3 2 years ago 4
happy 85th birthday to russell johnson!
12161euclid 2 years ago 2
Great compilation. Thanks for posting!
veracastle9 2 years ago
This is really good. I like this a whole lot!
MrHanksWorld 2 years ago 2
this is the song led zeppelin got sued for
mechtech104 2 years ago
Led Zeppelin didn't get sued. Little Roger and the Goosebumps were sued by Led Zeppelin's lawyers. Years later, Robert Plant claimed he'd never heard of the suit, and gave them permission to re-release.
marymactavish 2 years ago 2
Plant said this is one of his favourites. Lol !
patmcaguiar 2 years ago
CRAZY! please be so inthused to check out MY rendition of the Gilligan Theme song...And a roughcut to an old Eagles tune you may recognize also...PLease, I said please.Well I wrote please..lol
kaadauwgg 2 years ago
OMG-just ran across this and it brings me back 30 years listening to this on the Dr Demento show on Boston radio-was it WAAF? Can't remember, must have killed that brain cell! LOL Brilliantly silly, wonderful throwback to when radio was king and MTV had like 3 videos to play...thanks for posting this gem. Now I need to search for some other old Demento novelty songs and open a beer...
Lisawik 2 years ago 2
Very much win.
HakotenX 2 years ago
hehe nice
teafordinner 2 years ago
i heard a guy do this acoustic version at an unplugged night in a bar in Providence in '95-ish... super funny.
ennuieffect 2 years ago
Win.
AlbertMondback 2 years ago
I wish someone would post the goosebumps cover of the kinks songs: all day and of the night - victoria and so tired - all of them are GREAT
ethifanman 2 years ago
Have they been recorded? (Kennedy Girls was.)
marymactavish 2 years ago
Still love it
RancidRam 2 years ago
i had always heard about this-remebering little roger from the SF bay area years ago- but have never heard it...Didnt Led Zep lawyers shut this down under threat of legal action? BTW- check out "Stairway to Freebird" here on youtube- funny as hell also....
tonfan 2 years ago
I would seriously wait all week for the Dr. Demento show, just for the chance he would play this song!! I still love it dearly! Best Parody Ever!!! I mean, EVER!! (And this coming from a rabid Weird AL fan!)
scaminglee 2 years ago 4
Dr. Demento show?!? I was hearing that on San Francisco. Are you from the bay area?!?
Khultan 2 years ago
One of the best parodies ever
kozseluham 2 years ago
..and Peter Grant was the Skipper.
glimmer2158 2 years ago
Some of the visuals of this intro look like they're from the lost "Gilligan's Island"pilot.
djminimoto 2 years ago
OMG!!! I haven't heard this since sometime in the 80s...I heart YT!!
shadowtoia 2 years ago
LONG LIVE DR. DEMENTO!!!!!!!
connberkshire 2 years ago
About the best Stairway ever!
lemniscate100 2 years ago
are u forggetting stairway to freebird
heyhowami 2 years ago
This is how the show shoulda started! That would have rockkkkked!
baggagequeen 2 years ago
Why were the Howells "slumming" and taking such a small boat when they could have owned any yacht in that whole marina?
FlamingoKicker 2 years ago
Rumor has it, the Howell's took the 3 hour tour to fake their deaths. They were to be followed by a yacht owned by Aristotle Onassis which was to pluck them from the sea once they were a far distance from the coast. The reason for the death hoax was thought to be the fact that the Howells had secretly planned duel sex change operations in Argentina. Mr. H. was to become Mrs. and vice versa. Their wills had a mysterious condicil that transferred their wealth to Ned Recine.
alienhuman 2 years ago 2
You seem to be a reputable source. I buy it.
DasGoldenBoy 2 years ago 3
I think that is the script for the next season of "Lost"
28if 2 years ago 5
It sounds so sombre...<3
Not a word I'd use to describe such a happy show. xD
Shihtzu95 2 years ago
Well done clip! I also used to listen to this on Dr. Demento, although over the years it faded away to obscurity. When filesharing came out, I stumbled across it again, and immensely enjoyed sharing it with people who had never heard it!
screwyootube 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this!!! This song would be a lot more widespread if a certain songwriter didn't have a huge stuck up his backside about STH...
captmurdock 2 years ago
Thank-you mayorsam, nice find, or did you make the video to go with the song? Fun clip!
VJnumber1 2 years ago
Thank heavens for the good Dr. Demento who made so much of this stuff available to regular people.
midwifecat 3 years ago
I played this at a grateful dead show once in the 80's funny to see all the stoners crawl out of their tents to see what was happening...Classic
nywilf 3 years ago
Gary said to mow his lawn when the rain stops!
DiscoNot 3 years ago
I have this 45. What does it go for these days?
MrEdyoulis 3 years ago
EXCELLENT
111x0x111 3 years ago
God I kick myself!! I had this on vinyl pic sleeve single and gave it away as a house-warming gift!
pepperprism 3 years ago
I still have this single, on Richmond Records, no cover, it's worth at least $200
nicademus666 3 years ago
I wonder what it says when it's played backwards.
bcadle123 3 years ago 2
Puff puff...pass.
jax121467 3 years ago
LMAO!!!! :0
frangiul13 3 years ago
blasphemy.
punkrockefeller 3 years ago
hmmm wonder if it has subliminal messages :O
GuitarFr3ak2008 3 years ago
it reminds me of a segment of 70's mad magazine I read back then!!!
bettypro 3 years ago
I first heard this on Dr. Demetos show in So. Cal on the wonderful KMET the mighty met, man it must have been 1977 or 1978. How the years go by. I have this on a Zeppelin bootleg album of all things. Whoa, time warp.
mrevans60 3 years ago
I'm getting all misty-eyed now. ;)
meekrob 3 years ago
As the skipper once said to gilligan.."Get The Led Out"!
bradley825 3 years ago 2
Heard this live in the late '70's in Palo Alto (Sophie's ??). Used to see all the Beserkley acts there or in Berkeley itself. Here's what was really funny - several years later this parody was the subject of a Trivial Pursuit question. When it came up and I read it I just started laughing - how many people would have heard of this? That's real trivia for ya...
bunnyhuntress 3 years ago
I guess only people who listened to the Dr. Demento Show.
serf3469 3 years ago
Visited my hip cousins in Bay area, 1980: Highlights: Got saved, Baptist Rock Climbers in Yosemite; saw punk band competition (fish hooks in skin, etc. etc.) And HEARD Led Zepplin had been deflated by a parody and had sued, so I couldn't get the disk. Ah, You Tube-- Like Gutenberg (sp?) press, freeing the masses! If Zepplin really sued, I think it showed they NEEDED some "deflating!" But we sure liked to dance to the slow part, didn't we, in high school, til fast riff began & tore us all apart.
ednorandrewrowe 3 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
gilligan is dead
elhijodeperra 3 years ago
I thgink that we all have to agree, Mary Anne was hot.
JustaSmuck 3 years ago 8
Its funny that in these older ones they just said "And the rest...". Later the song went "The professor and Merry Ann....".
RobertGary1 3 years ago
what happen if we play it backwards??
timtonjes 3 years ago 4
The voice is Roger Clark and it's Little Roger and Goosebumps-he's still SF raising his twins and making funny music and videos.
dickdeluxe 3 years ago
Leonard Simpson is the guitar player.
familyoffaithchurch 3 years ago
lol...thats pretty neato..but now I have to go listen to the real version..
walls777 3 years ago
Its nice to hear from some Dr. Demento fans. The 1st. time I heard this was on his show Sunday evenings in LA on the great 94.7 K.M.E.T. The mighty MET.
mrevans60 3 years ago 3