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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.
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 [ 2 ] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno .
In the 1960s and 1970s, Mandell was a prominent session musician, and he played on Judy Collins [3] live album The Judy Collins Concert (1964) and studio album True Stories and Other Dreams (1973), among others. In 1972, Mandell recorded "Dueling Banjos" with another session musician, Eric Weissberg.
Pages in category "1973 soundtrack albums" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... Dueling Banjos (album) E. Enter the Dragon (soundtrack) G.
Dueling Banjos (album) Dylan (1973 album) Dynamite (The Supremes and the Four Tops album) E. Elegy (The Nice album) Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas; F.
In one scene, he plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a banjo-playing mountain boy, played by child actor Billy Redden. He was hired for the role because he could play the guitar. [6] Cox published his autobiography in 2012, recounting his experiences making the film. [7]
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 ...