Any relation, I wonder? One played a beatnik and then a goofy first mate on an island. The other was a hippy “folk singer”. Not all that different.
No relation.
John’s real name was “Henry John Deutschendorf”. I don’t blame him for changing it.
Bob Denver didn’t have to change his name, “Robert Osbourne Denver”.
I didn’t care for the song using the ugly white rural south stereotypes. It didn’t just come across as an anti-KKK song, but a mock the South song.