{"id":1826,"date":"2008-03-05T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/the-first-mashup-i-ever-heard-stairway-to-gilligans-island\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T19:48:57","slug":"the-first-mashup-i-ever-heard-stairway-to-gilligans-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/the-first-mashup-i-ever-heard-stairway-to-gilligans-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Mashup I Ever Heard: Stairway to Gilligan&#8217;s Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989 I was a DJ at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfo.org\/\">WMFO<\/a>, Tufts radio station.  I found a cart<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cart-wmca10a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/cart-wmca10a.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"cart\" alt=\"cart-wmca10a.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"50\" width=\"37\" \/><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawkins.pair.com\/atcitynj.shtml\">image via<\/a>) in the music library called &#8220;Stairway to Gilligan&#8217;s Island&#8221;. I fell in love with it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I came to mentioning the song to a guy in a tiki bar in Alameda (I was there with some friends from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improv.org\/\">Improv class<\/a>) because the song had been floating around in my brain. Amazingly, he said that he knew the guy who made the song and he lived nearby. (small world, eh?).<\/p>\n<p>I really should look him up. Here it is, Stairway to Gilligan&#8217;s Island by Roger and the Goosebumps:<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KTCYLbFxTpI\">on Youtube<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stairway_to_gilligan_s_island.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"player1\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Get the latest Flash Player<\/a> to see this player.<\/p>\r\n<noscript><p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]<\/p><\/noscript>\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\tdocument.getElementById(\"player1\").style.display = \"\";\r\n\t\r\n\tvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/flv-embed\/flvplayer.swf\",\"player1\",\"480\",\"380\",\"7\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"wmode\",\"transparent\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\r\n\ts1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"height\",\"380\");\r\n\ts1.addVariable(\"width\",\"480\"); \n\ts1.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stairway_to_gilligan_s_island.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"image\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stairway_to_gilligan_s_island.jpg\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"link\",\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/stairway_to_gilligan_s_island.flv\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"overstretch\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showstop\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"autostart\",\"true\");\n\ts1.addVariable(\"bufferlength\",\"8\");\r\n\ts1.write(\"player1\");\r\n<\/script>\n<p>I&#8217;ll likely be going to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mashup_%28music%29\">mashup<\/a> event Saturday night at the DNA Lounge, <a href=\"http:\/\/bootiesf.com\/\">BootieSF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bootie_1-yearanniversary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bootie_1-yearanniversary.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"bootie_1-yearanniversary.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989 I was a DJ at WMFO, Tufts radio station. I found a cart (image via) in the music library called &#8220;Stairway to Gilligan&#8217;s Island&#8221;. I fell in love with it. Last year, I came to mentioning the song to a guy in a tiki bar in Alameda (I was there with some friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}