Supposedly Robert Plant's favorite version of Stairway To Heaven and done with Gilligan Island Lyrics.....
Heh...
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)", 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."
During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."
And not because you asked but beacuse i felt the need i give you the B side "The Wet Look" @ both 45 and 33RPM....
Little Roger & the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway)
Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 45 RPM
Little Roger & the Goosebumps - The Wet Look - 33 RPM
2 comments:
a GREAT tune! I remember hearing this back in the late 70's on the old Dr. Demento show.....and even found the 45 somewhere in the Philadelphia area where I grew up....thanks for the posting!!! jim
Any chance of a reload on these tracks? The Divshare thing seems to be extinct. Thanks if you can - OK if you can't - great to see the scans of the labels. Never heard The Wet Look - are the 33 & 45 versions different edits or takes? Cheers!
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