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"Ohhh and all the rest"

Stairway To Gilligan's Island.' 1977. Little Roger & The Goosebumps. (slyt)
From yt entry: 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. Led Zeppelin's management threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against the label, its attorneys demanding that all copies be destroyed, and the band withdrew the song, seeing their legal resources as inadequate. The song was reissued in 2000 on the CD Laguna Tunes with the song title renamed "Stairway to Gilligan's Island.'
posted by clavdivs on Jan 21, 2026 at 9:57 PM

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Ti to 'To' fanks!
posted by clavdivs at 10:00 PM

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[ Aye sir, edit so made. Ever an honour. ]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 10:38 PM

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Back in the 80s when I was deep into Dr Demento, this was one of the holy grails of parody songs. I think I heard it maybe once, and even that may just be a wishful memory.
posted by Saxon Kane at 11:02 PM

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Puddles did a nice version of this on JoCo Cruise
posted by caphector at 11:15 PM

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One place that played this several times during the 1980s was David Wisdom's Nightlines on CBC-FM. Sometimes he didn't use the band's name because he said he would get sued. I don't know if Little Roger got royalties.
posted by CCBC at 11:37 PM

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I heard about this song years before I actually heard it, and thought the idea was hilarious.

It lived up to its advanced billing upon first listen.
posted by Phlegmco(tm) at 12:02 AM

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When my college radio pals and I discovered "Green Haze" by Elvis Hitler (Green Acres theme set to Purple Haze) in the late 80s, we definitely didn't know about this precursor.
posted by chr1sb0y at 4:09 AM

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I played this for my college roommates back in the 80s and it offended them so much they threw me in the shower.
posted by schrodycat at 4:59 AM

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Common meter is the means by which many a parody has been wrought.
posted by at by at 5:06 AM

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I recently discovered that if you want to drive a Disney fan nuts, and I mean frothing angry bonkers, you can sing the lyrics to "Hi Ho" to the tune of the "A Pirate's Life For Me". The best part is that once you do it they can never, ever forget it. or forgive you
posted by phooky at 5:29 AM

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If they threw you in the shower, perhaps it wasn't the music that was offensive
posted by phooky at 5:30 AM

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Back in the 80s when I was deep into Dr Demento, this was one of the holy grails of parody songs. I think I heard it maybe once, and even that may just be a wishful memory.

That's definitely where I heard it too, so I don't think you're imagining it.
posted by briank at 6:02 AM

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Tiny Tim's cover of Stairway to Heaven. I believe it was Jimmy Page who said: someone finally killed that song.
posted by dances_with_sneetches at 6:30 AM

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I had never heard this before and am kind of sad that I had a "is this an AI thing" thought when I clicked the link.
posted by star gentle uterus at 6:47 AM

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Another Gilligan mashup, courtesy of Achewood. You don't need to read past the first two rows of this comic or the rest of that particular arc, trust me on this.
posted by infinitewindow at 9:02 AM

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at the time of Dread Zeppelin i coined the term for this, "glimflash". i thought it would become the genre of the future.
posted by graywyvern at 9:26 AM

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Ah, the power of meter.
posted by Melismata at 9:54 AM

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Weird Al has entered the chat
posted by swift at 10:36 AM

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Weird Al has entered the chat

I hate that this was immediately brought to mind.
posted by Token Meme at 11:04 AM

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I saw Dread Zeppelin live in 1990 and as a huge Zeppelin fan, I have to say that was the holy grail of ridiculous mashups. See kids, we were doing this stuff before the web! Also they were on IRS records and I've been to Miles Copeland's house and picked up a Police Grammy from the mantel!
posted by caviar2d2 at 3:28 PM

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"Ohhh and all the rest"

Ah, so it's Stairway to First Season Gilligan's Island. Before they gave the Professor and Mary Ann their rightful place with the rest of the cast(aways).

And a good thing they did. The Professor doesn't take any shit, no matter how big a star you are.
posted by Naberius at 6:32 PM

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