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"Dueling Banjos" was arranged and performed for the film by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell and was included on its soundtrack. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] When Arthur "Boogie" Smith was not acknowledged as the composer by the filmmakers, he sued and eventually won, receiving songwriting credit as well as royalties.
Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman and Weissberg.
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973.
In 1972, Mandell recorded "Dueling Banjos" with another session musician, Eric Weissberg. In 1973, the single peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, [5] No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, and No. 1 on Adult Contemporary chart, and the tune was the theme of the 1972 film Deliverance. [2]
In 1955, Smith composed a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos", and recorded the song with five-string banjo player Don Reno. Later the composition was performed in the popular 1972 film Deliverance, retitled "Dueling Banjos" and played by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell. It was released as a single becoming a major hit: played on Top ...
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"Dueling Banjos" — Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell (2:18) 1974. Billboard Top Soft Rock Hits: 1974; Compilation album by . Various artists. Released: April 15, 1997:
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