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Post by roscoe on Oct 12, 2012 4:04:15 GMT
Has anyone heard the Demo version with J Page singing the lyrics from the Gilligans Island theme?--- which the songs chord progression is based upon.
KLOS played it one afternoon in about 1989.
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 12, 2012 17:06:43 GMT
I think you may have your wires crossed there roscoe .
The song which was done after the release of Stairway .
I am very sure Page is not on it , and as for Pagey singing ?!
They were not very happy about at the time . The Irony is that Spirit had a tune not very far away from the opening of Stairway a few years before called Taurus .
Plant and Page wrote Stairway together at Headley Grange , Page played it for Plant and he more or less came up with the Lyrics on the spot.
Check this out .
Spirit .
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roscoe
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Post by roscoe on Oct 13, 2012 3:31:09 GMT
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Post by roscoe on Oct 13, 2012 4:36:33 GMT
I think you may have your wires crossed there roscoe . The song which was done after the release of Stairway . I am not quite sure what is meant by the above statement. Are U referring to what I heard on the radio? If so I can assure U it was neither of the 2 versions above. What I heard was JP on the vocal singing the words from GI and that is what the DJ said as well. This jibes with what I read 4 or 5 yrs later in a RS interview with Plant where he is quoted as saying he added the lyrics later. U should be able to research the RS interview/ article. Not that I am a Led Zep fan.
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 13, 2012 11:05:51 GMT
I know Plant wrote the lyrics proper later on . In the interveiw it dos`nt mention that Page went up to Plant and said . "Er Percy check this out mate , Ive got a song I want to sing you , it`s about that crap American show called Gilligans Island and I think this could well be one of the greatest rock songs ever " But my point is that no way Page is on that song or any other Gilligan song . Or in fact , and I have been a Zepp fan for over 30 years and I have never come across Page singing on anything what so ever . So I think that D.J. is wrong . Also . From the very detailed book on Zepp. "Led Zeppelin and the Philosophy by Scott Calef. Given their cavalier attitude toward musical appropriation, Led Zeppelin’s response when they first found themselves on the receiving end of musical appropriation is fascinating. In 1978, an obscure band from San Francisco, Little Roger and the Goosebumps, borrowed from “Stairway to Heaven” and created “Gilligan’s Island (Stairway).” Released as a 45-rpm single on Splash Records, it was one of a string of parody records created by the team of Roger Clark and Dick Bright. They worked together in a comedy-musical act with a regular gig in San Francisco. In some circumstances they were known as Dick Bright and His Sounds of Delight Orchestra. Other times, they were billed as Dick Bright and the Hi-Balls. To make matters more confusing, their earlier 1976 tribute disc to the Kinks, Kinks Sides, attributed one song to the Sounds of Delight Orchestra but two others to the Goosebumps. “Gilligan’s Island (Stairway)” gained immediate national airplay. It falls squarely into the tradition of rock’n’roll novelty songs. Clark and Bright edited the music of “Stairway to Heaven” into a manageable three and a half minutes—something that Zeppelin had refused to do, so that the original song’s radio success was independent of its status as a Led Zeppelin single.30 Over the highly recognizable music, a voice enters in a fairly good imitation of Robert Plant. (The vocal was contributed by John Means, a San Francisco comedian whose stage name is Dr. Gonzo.) However, instead of the familiar words, “There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold,” he shatters our expectations by singing something else: “Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale.” While this line may be unfamiliar to many people today, it opens the theme song of a popular 1960s situation comedy, Gilligan’s Island. In the 1970s, the show’s ninety-eight episodes were frequently seen through their continuing syndication. It’s quite possible that more people knew the TV program theme song, written by George Wyle and Sherwood Shwartz, than knew “Stairway to Heaven.” Roger Clark cleverly combined the melody sung by Robert Plant with the words of the first three verses of the TV theme, proceeding with their seamless marriage until words and music arrive at their dramatic climax. But now “And she’s buying a stairway [dramatic pause] to heaven” is replaced by “And they’re here on Gilligan’s [dramatic pause] island,” and the pretentious Led Zeppelin anthem deflates into triviality, the mystical into the ridiculous. Today, most fans would call this a mash-up.31 If you’ve never heard this recording, it’s probably because Led Zeppelin threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against Splash Records unless they stopped distributing it. Lacking the money to fight Zeppelin in court, the Goosebumps complied and killed it. (There was not, as is often reported, an actual lawsuit.) The Gilligan-Stairway hybrid is interesting for two different reasons. First, it seems to make hypocrites of the members of Led Zeppelin, who would not permit others to engage in the same musical appropriation that defined their early career. However, that’s not itself a philosophical issue. What’s philosophically interesting is the way “Gilligan’s Island (Stairway)” illustrates a situation discussed by Eduard Hanslick, a nineteenth-century music critic who wrote an influential book on the value of music. I am a Zepp fan .
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Post by roscoe on Oct 13, 2012 18:49:17 GMT
I can only report exactly what I heard with my own ears. What has been posted above is NOT what was played by Jim Ladd. He SAID SPECIFICALLY that it was Page on the vocal and described it as a demo version.
I would advise taking it up with him.
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Post by Mr Kite on Oct 13, 2012 19:40:46 GMT
I would advise taking it up with him. I will . I will track him down and I shall have this debate with him . Page don`t sing . What`s that Jimmy ? ! You cant sing ! A demo . Headley Grange , not complete words , but hey , I know my Zepp. I am a Zep Fan . Loved adorde , admired , read about , but never D.J.`d , so what do I know . Not Page singing , what so ever . ( Played The Witchwood once , so there Mr D.J)
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Post by rdnzl on Apr 5, 2013 12:26:52 GMT
I always thought the GI theme lyrics fit better with the tune of "In The Court Of The Crimson King".
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Post by Mr Kite on Apr 1, 2016 19:41:10 GMT
Jimmy Page talkin about how Stairway came to pass. ( no , Jimmy aint singing in this bit )
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