#20

Gilligan’s Island

The Professor and Mary Ann get their credit in this version. They are no longer just “AND THE REST.”

We enter the Top 20 of the Top 100 with one of the most famous sitcoms of all time.

Title: “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island”

Written:  Sherwood Schwartz and George Wyle

Performed: The Wellingtons (season one); The Eligibles (season two and on)

Fact: The original theme that was replaced was a calypso version composed by EYG Hall of Famer John Williams.

Fact: Bob Denver (Gilligan) went to the studio and requested that “..the Professor and Mary Ann” was added to the theme song, and that Denver was willing to move his own credit to the end in order to accomplish this.