Dueling Banjos, Andy Griffith Show with the Darlings, with Ron Howard there

You have to be dead inside not to love this.

Before Deliverance.

Mando guy didn't get lost like guitar guy in the movie

Look this one up under Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, who is credited as the composer. He was playing plectrum banjo and the amazing Don Reno was playing it on the five-string in the 1955 recording. So it really was Dueling Banjos. Arthur was the one who sued (and won) over copyright infringement. Maybe wouldn't have done so had the song not reached #2 in the charts. He got some pretty good coin, from what I've read.

Still the best show on tv..........

As Hollywood is known to do, rip people off and destroy lives, Arthur sued the movie company and won the music copyright to the song. Previously, he had not even been credited for any of it. Billy Redden was paid $500 for his appearance as the 'banjo boy' in Deliverance'. Two others recorded the song for the movie and they dropped their version entirely before the movie was released. Just think how agonizing it would be to not get credit for something that became world famous.

I seem to recall this song from way back when it was called Battling Banjos.

Doug Dillard[R.I.P.],in his day,was one of the best banjo players ever.And Dean Webb wasn't too shabby on the mandolin,either.

As Andy Griffith would say, "GOOD, EXTRA GOOD.  I believe the boys are playing better all time."

love these old shows!

Pure.

don't recall seeing this before

Banjo's Blazlin

Its always pleasurable to listen to the Dillon Brothers

Deliverance was my first thought.

Sounds like the Banjo is dueling with the Mandolin, rather than the guitar.

My favorite episodes of that show are when the Darlings (The Dillards) are on.

Too bad they left out the best part with the duelling banjos. Although I'm sure it didn't exist until the Deliverance version.

The Darlins, they could sing but couldn't talk, lol.

I had forgotten that song was played on the Andy Griffith show. I had thought it was from the movie later.

I like how the Darlings are always "all choked up."

The Darlings are a musical family Andy likes to pick with them

“ dualing banjos” Umm..... I only saw one banjo, not not plural as in the tittle.

The most ripp’n version of banjos ever. Doug Dillard gives me chills his picking is so sharp

That`s some fine pickin!

Trivia-"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos," which contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno. The composition's first wide-scale airing was on a 1963 television episode of The Andy Griffith Show called "Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee," in which it is played by visiting musical family the Darlings (played by The Dillards, a bluegrass group) along with Griffith himself.
Was made famous by the 1972 film "Deliverance." Smith won a lawsuit, as it was used in the film without Smith's permission. The film version was arranged and recorded by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell, but only credited to Weissberg on a single subsequently issued in December 1972. It went to #2 for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song," and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year.[3] It reached No. 1 for one week on both the Cashbox and Record World pop charts. The song also reached No. 5 on the Hot Country Singles chart at the same time it was on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary Singles charts. It was also nominated for the 30th Golden Globe Awards in the Best Original Song category.
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Good old days!!😊👍

The first time Dueling Banjos ever reached a mainstream audience on camera (even before the infamous Deliverance scene).

The interesting thing to me is that both scenes make the exact same philosophical statement. A connection between relatively civilized people and assumed “not-so civilized” people. In both cases, a groundwork is laid out that people from different backgrounds aren’t really so different when it comes to appreciation for art.

While Deliverance creates an ironic comfort to throw you off when things truly get much worse later. This show does it as a positive conclusion that we’re all not that different and societal borders can indeed be broken through the beauty of art.

I love this

The song was written back in the '50s & wasn't well-known outside of the bluegrass community until this 1963 appearance on the AGS -- of course, once it appeared in Deliverance in '72, it would be forever associated & eternaly linked with that film

One of the most shows on tv