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Jose Feliciano - Duelin' Banjo [HD]

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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José Feliciano plays the intrumental 'Duelin' Banjo' from his 1965 debut RCA Victor album 'The Voice And Guitar Of José Feliciano'. This is a version of the song 'Dueling Banjos'. Some notes from Wikipedia on this are below. The writing credit on the record label is "(Rodney & Doug Dillard-Webb-Jayne)" which may reflect arranging of the piece.

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"Dueling Banjos" is an instrumental 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 "Yankee Doodle." Smith recorded it 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). The song was made famous by the 1972 film Deliverance, which also led to a successful lawsuit by the song's composer, 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.

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