By Witney Siebold, Slash Film | “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island,” in case it needs repeating, is the single best TV theme song of all time. In addition to explicitly explaining the premise of the classic show, “Ballad” introduces every single one of its seven main characters by name (at least starting in the second season, when “The Professor and Mary Ann” replaced the phrase “and the rest”). It also helps that it’s one of the most insidious earworms this side of “Yellow Submarine”; once you get “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” stuck in your head, it will never leave. Your mind will be as lost as the Minnow.
In the original pilot episode for “Gilligan’s Island,” back before the final cast had been selected, the theme song was a calypso number composed by John Williams. That song, however, wasn’t exactly what show creator Sherwood Schwartz wanted. . .
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Photo: Gilligan’s Island – 60 years
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