You’ve Never Heard 'Gilligan’s Island' Theme Song Like This

You’ve never heard the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song like this, guaranteed. It’s a huge, but welcome stylistic departure, an incredibly unique take on the memorable tune we all know and love. Watch the short but thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable clip to hear this updated, modernized version of the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song.

Covers today are a dime a dozen. They can be found literally everywhere you listen to music – Spotify, Apple Music, America’s Got Talent, American Idol, The Voice and even the radio. But let’s be honest, 99 percent of those covers are essentially carbon copies of the original. Sure, they may sound great, but they are all, for the most part, extremely forgettable.

What is really the point of covering a song if the artist is just going to do it exactly as the original? Wouldn’t we be better off just listening to the first version? Nine times out of 10, it’s going to be better anyway. The point being that if you’re going to cover a song, take a chance, branch out, try something new and take it in a different direction, at least that shows some creativity and skill.

In a clip posted on YouTube, one musician took the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song in a decidedly different direction. It’s guaranteed that you have never heard the tune about the three-hour tour aboard The S.S. Minnow performed quite like this. While all the lyrics are exactly the same, and you’ll soon recognize them, the musical style isn’t quite as it was heard back in the 1960s.

“Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale

A tale of a fateful trip that started from this tropic port

Aboard this tiny ship”

Even if this kind of style isn’t your preferred kind of music, and you’d rather hear it as it was way back in the 1960s, you still have to appreciate the effort and the creativity to do something like this. At least, it’s not simply a duplicate, like nearly every other musical cover.

Ephesians 5:19 “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”