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Little Roger and the Goosebumps is a pop/rock band from San Francisco active during the 1970s and early 1980s and resurrected in 2006. It has been led throughout its history by Roger Clark and Dick Bright, with various sidemen.
The band is best known for its single "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)",[1] a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island with the music of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The band wrote the song in 1977 as "material to pad the last set of the grueling 5 nights a week/4 sets a night routine," recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label. Within five weeks, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed.[citation needed] The song was reissued in 2000 on the CD Laguna Tunes with the song title renamed "Stairway to Gilligan's Island."[2]
During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."[3]
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Stairway to Gilligan's Island (Original Post)
progressoid
Dec 2013
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orleans
(34,060 posts)1. omg--this song
first time i heard it i was a little buzzed (can't remember from what exactly, but buzzed)
it came on the radio as a few friends & myself sat around the living room talking. and then i -- after it kept playing -- it hit me that the song wasn't stairway to heaven!
none of us had ever heard it before & it was one of those classic moments i've never forgotten.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)2. A big ol' K n R...nt
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)3. K & R...for awesomeness...
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)4. and here's "Stairway to Lenin"
progressoid
(49,991 posts)6. Yes!
Love Zbig. Some where in a closet, I have a VHS (yes, VHS) of a bunch of Zbigniew Rybczyński films.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)5. One of my two favorite parodies of all time.
And here is the other:
Hard to decide which one I like most, so I'll just have to love both of 'em.
-- Mal
hibbing
(10,098 posts)7. Magnificent
Hey,
Thanks for posting this, that was downright cool. Ever hear any Dread Zeppelin?
Peace
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)8. DAMMIT!!!! Beat me to it!!!