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original Gilligan's Island theme song by John Williams (lasted 1 episode)

Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:05 pm
Posted by Nativebullet
Natchez, MS
Member since Feb 2011
5134 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:05 pm
They ditched this song after the pilot. Music by the great John Williams (Star Wars, Jaws, etc). Also, noticed they got rid of the "two secretaries" and inserted Ginger and Mary Ann.

Then the version we all know became one of the greatest tv theme songs of all time.

Link to original

Youtube



Posted by UL-SabanRival
Member since May 2013
4651 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:17 pm to
That was awful. I love how they didn't even intro the actresses who played the secretaries. I guess they were just supposed to be eye candy.
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:32 pm to
That's horrible, glad he got better.

may not have been the same John Williams, maybe it was the LSU basketball player's dad or something
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
38910 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:35 pm to
I thought it was catchy
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
Member since Nov 2012
51672 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 9:46 pm to
It was catchy but horrible
Posted by Darkknight
Member since Mar 2012
1415 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:00 pm to
That is crazy! I never knew this was the original song and they had 2 secretaries instead of Ginger and Mary Ann!
Posted by Backinthe615
Member since Nov 2011
6871 posts
Posted on 9/26/14 at 10:08 pm to
Not only can you hear the whore, you can picture the bad advice he got, costly session, and subsequent pass from the studio.
Posted by WPBTiger
Parts Unknown
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 9/27/14 at 8:23 am to
Posted by skuter
P'ville
Member since Jan 2005
6143 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 8:24 am to
Read that the flag in the harbor at 0:48 was at half mast because JFK had been shot earlier that day.
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
21846 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 8:34 am to
Just awful
Posted by GeauxColonels
Tottenham Fan | LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2009
25604 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 8:47 am to
Man that was bad.
Posted by Dale Murphy
God's Country
Member since Feb 2005
24472 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 9:05 am to
Everyone saying how bad it is needs to watch it again. It's extremely catchy.
Posted by Jagd Tiger
The Kinder, Gentler Jagd
Member since Mar 2014
18139 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 10:16 am to

pepe rodriguez as written by harry belafonte..

some serious suckitude.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
59522 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 10:36 am to
The SS Minnow was a POS.
Posted by TigerintheNO
New Orleans
Member since Jan 2004
41195 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 11:55 am to
according to the comments, today is the 50th anniversary of the premier of the show
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98188 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 12:23 pm to
It's more plausible (just barely) that they'd be marooned in the South Pacific. Too many people around in the Carribbean for them to go undiscovered that long.
Posted by Jagd Tiger
The Kinder, Gentler Jagd
Member since Mar 2014
18139 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 12:47 pm to

you must have missed "Danger Island", right?

Posted by Dorothy
Munchkinland
Member since Oct 2008
18153 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 1:38 pm to
Wasn't the regular theme show changed after a while from

"...a movie star
And the rest
Here on Gilligan's Isle"

To

"...a movie star
The professor and Mary Ann
Here on Gilligan's Isle"

(Y'all are singing it now, aren't you? )

I seem to remember watching reruns and thinking, that's stupid, they probably all would've died quickly without the professor's inventions.
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98188 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 1:52 pm to
Yes, there were two versions.
Posted by Jagd Tiger
The Kinder, Gentler Jagd
Member since Mar 2014
18139 posts
Posted on 9/27/14 at 3:55 pm to

Sherwood Schwartz, the legend.. the genius...
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