Editing Gilligan's Island (section)

=== Theme song ===
The music and lyrics for the theme song, "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", were written by [[Sherwood Schwartz]] and [[George Wyle]]. One version was used for the first season and another for the second and third seasons. In the original song, the Professor and Mary Ann, originally considered "second-billed co-stars", were referred to as "the rest". However, with the growing popularity of those characters, their names were inserted into the lyrics in the second season. The ''Gilligan'' theme song underwent this one major change because star Bob Denver personally asked studio executives to add Johnson and Wells to the song.<ref name="shales">{{Citation | first = Tom | last = Shales | title = Hey, little buddy! 'Gilligan' DVD drifts into port | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = February 8, 2004 | page = N1 | quote = To his credit, star Bob Denver lobbied Schwartz and others to change the lyrics to the theme song after the second season, so all the characters and not just most of them were listed. Instead of the chorus singing 'the movie star and the rest', they sang 'the movie star, the professor and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's isle!'}}</ref> When the studio at first refused, saying it would be too expensive to reshoot, Denver insisted, even going so far as to state that if Johnson and Wells were not included, he wanted his name out of the song as well. The studio caved in, and "the Professor and Mary Ann" were added.<ref name = "green">{{cite book| last = Green| title = Unofficial Gilligan's Island Handbook| year = 1988| publisher = Warner Books| isbn = 9780446386685| url = https://archive.org/details/unofficialgillig00gree| url-access = registration}}</ref><ref name="straight-dope">{{cite web | last = Lileth | url = https://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mgilliga.html | title = Was the "Gilligan's Island" theme song tampered with?| work = The Straight Dope | publisher = Cecil Adams| access-date = April 4, 2006}}</ref><ref name="50s-web">{{cite web | url = https://fiftiesweb.com/tv/gilligans-island/ | title = Gilligan's Island Tidbits | publisher = The Fifties Web | access-date = April 4, 2006}}</ref>  The theme song in the original pilot did not even mention the character Ginger, with the last two mentioned by name being "the Millionaire and Mrs. Millionaire" followed by "...and the other tourists".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/GilligansIsland1.00|title=Gilligans Island 1.00|date=April 27, 1963|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

The first-season version was recorded by the folk group [[The Wellingtons (folk group)|The Wellingtons]]. The second-season version, which incorporated more of a [[sea shanty]] sound, was uncredited, but according to Russell Johnson in his book ''Here on Gilligan's Isle'', it was performed by a group called the Eligibles.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://bayviews.blogspot.com/2012/03/home-town-success-story.html | work = Bay views | title=Home Town Success Story | date = March 24, 2012 | publisher = Google Blogger | access-date= September 17, 2014}}</ref>

The show's original pilot episode featured a [[Calypso music|calypso]] theme song by future film composer [[John Williams]] and different lyrics. The original length of the voyage was "a six-hour ride", not "a three-hour tour".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.gilligansisle.com/theme.html |title = Gilligan's Island Theme |publisher = Gilligan's isle |access-date= October 17, 2009}}</ref> John Williams (or Johnny Williams as he was often listed in the show credits) was the initial composer of the incidental music for the show (from 1964 to 1965), but was replaced by [[Gerald Fried]] for the remaining seasons (1965–1967).

==== Later parodies and homages ====
The band [[Little Roger and the Goosebumps]] recorded "Stairway to Gilligan's Island", a parody of [[Led Zeppelin]]'s "[[Stairway to Heaven]]", substituting the words to the ''Gilligan's Island'' theme song.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.gilligansisle.com/stairway.html |title=Stairway |work= The Official Gilligan's Island Fan Club | access-date =March 18, 2011}}</ref> In 1987, The Iceman parodied [[Madonna]]'s "[[La Isla Bonita]]" as "La Isla Gilligan". [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] recorded a song called "Isle Thing", a parody of [[Tone Lōc]]'s "[[Wild Thing (Tone Lōc song)|Wild Thing]]", about a rapper whose girlfriend introduces him to the show. Yankovic also mentions the show in his song "Stop Draggin' My Car Around", and he used one verse from the closing theme lyrics in "[[Amish Paradise]]" (1996), a parody of [[Coolio]]'s "[[Gangsta's Paradise]]" (1995). The song has also been covered by many bands, including [[Bowling for Soup]] for the [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] show ''[[The Real Gilligan's Island]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bowling For Soup – Gilligan's Island Theme| work = YouTube | url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zpIT5PjPNM&NR=1&feature=fvwp| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726105215/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zpIT5PjPNM&gl=US&hl=en&amp;has_verified=1| archive-date=2011-07-26}}</ref> [[Israel Kamakawiwo{{okina}}ole]] also recorded a comic tribute to the theme song on his album E Ala E.  The chorus to rap group [[Big Tymers]]' "[[Still Fly]]" is based on the Gilligan's Island theme song.<ref>{{cite book |title=Vibe |date=2003 |publisher=Time Publishing Ventures, Incorporated |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LytLAAAAYAAJ |language=en}} "The producer extraordinaire entered the big time of commercial rap recognition with the Gilligan's Island-based "Still Fly."</ref>