Little Roger and the Goosebumps
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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.[1]
The band, consisting of Roger Clark and Dick Bright, are best known for their song "Gilligan's Island/Stairway to Heaven"[2][3], a song combining the music of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" with the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island. 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."[4], recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label.[4] Within five weeks, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed.
They recorded their next single, "Kennedy Girl" (based on Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl"), in 1980, then waited over a quarter-century before producing their debut album They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful, featuring new recordings of 14 songs drawn from three decades of original material.[5]
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[edit] References
- ^ History of the Band - LittleRoger.com Retrieved from Internet Archive on 5 June 2007.
- ^ MP3 version of "Gilligan's Island/Stairway" - LittleRoger.com Retrieved from Internet Archive on 15 July 2006.
- ^ MP3 version hosted on libraryofvinyl blog.
- ^ a b Gilligan Timeline from the band's website
- ^ They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful from the Pop Plus One website
