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'''Little Roger and the Goosebumps''' is a pop/rock [[band (music)|band]] from [[San Francisco]] active during the 1970s and early 1980s and resurrected in 2006. It has been led throughout its history by Roger Clark and Dick Bright, with various sidemen.

The band is best known for its single "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)"<ref>[http://www.gilligansisle.com/stairway.html Stairway to ''Gilligan's Island''] from gilligansisle.com, a ''Gilligan Island'' fansite. The source for the title of the song comes from [http://www.gilligansisle.com/images/roger.jpg this image of the single] on that fansite.</ref><ref name=MC>{{cite book|author1=Kembrew McLeod|author2=Peter DiCola|title=Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling|url=https://archive.org/details/creativelicensel00mcle|url-access=registration|date=14 March 2011|publisher=[[Duke University Press]]|isbn=0-8223-4875-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/creativelicensel00mcle/page/120 120]}}</ref> a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show ''[[The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle|Gilligan's Island]]'' with the music of "[[Stairway to Heaven]]" by [[Led Zeppelin]]. The band wrote the song in 1977 as "material to pad the last set of the grueling 5 nights a week/4 sets a night routine," recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label. Led Zeppelin's management threatened a copyright infringement lawsuit against the label, its attorneys demanding that all copies be destroyed, and the band withdrew the song, seeing their legal resources as inadequate.<ref name="Calef2013">{{cite book|author=Scott Calef|title=Led Zeppelin and Philosophy: All Will Be Revealed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ozfg785V0E4C&pg=PT56|date=21 August 2013|publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company]]|isbn=978-0-8126-9776-6|page=56}}</ref><ref name=MC/> The song was reissued in 2000 on the CD ''Laguna Tunes'' with the song title renamed "Stairway to Gilligan's Island."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lagunatunes.com/pressclips.htm |title=Kenny Laguna |publisher=Laguna Tunes |date= |accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref>

During a 2004 interview on [[National Public Radio]], [[Robert Plant]] referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thetyee.ca/Music/2008/01/10/LedZeppelin/ |title=The Tyee – My Protest Against the Zep |publisher=Thetyee.ca |date=2008-01-10 |accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14053437 |title=Robert Plant on the 'Stairway to Heaven' |publisher=NPR |date= |accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref>

The famous conman "[[Christian Gerhartsreiter|Clark Rockefeller]]" and his young daughter Snooks used to sing the Stairway/Gilligan's mix.<ref>[[Mark Seal|Seal, Mark]]. ''The Man in the Rockefeller Suit''. [[Plume (publisher)|Plume]], 2012, paperback ed. pp 322.</ref>

The band recorded their next single, "Kennedy Girl" (based on [[Neil Young]]'s "[[Cinnamon Girl (Neil Young song)|Cinnamon Girl]]"), in 1980,{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} then waited over a quarter-century before producing their debut album ''They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful'', featuring new recordings of 14 songs drawn from three decades of original material.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://popplusone.com/hateus.html |title=They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful by Little Roger and the Goosebumps |publisher=Pop Plus One |date= |accessdate=2014-07-15}}</ref>

Their single "Fudd on the Hill," essentially a performance of "[[The Fool on the Hill|Fool on the Hill]]" by [[Looney Tunes]] character [[Elmer Fudd]], was included on the novelty compilation album ''[[The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records]], Volume 2''.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://berkeleymonthly.net/kilduff-03-07.html Roger Clark interview] from ''The Monthly''

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[[Category:American pop rock music groups]]
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