"Dueling Banjos" is an instrumental composition that was made famous in a scene from the 1972 movie Deliverance. The scene depicts Billy Redden playing the piece opposite actor Ronny Cox on guitar. Redden plays "Lonnie" a mentally retarded, inbred, extremely gifted banjo player.The piece was arranged and performed for the movie by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell and was on the movie's soundtrack album. The piece was originally composed by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith and Don Reno as Feuding Banjos in 1955.References in popular cultureThe composition is a mainstay of the band Hayseed Dixie. It is on their fifth album, A Hot Piece of Grass, and is performed as the closing song at the majority of their live performance. The band's main banjo player is Don Wayne Reno, son of one of the work's co-composers Don Reno. In The King of Queens 2001 episode "Whine Country", it is used when Arthur and Spence are camped in a forest. Two people are watching them, and one observes that Spence has 'a pretty mouth'. In the 2007 series finale "China Syndrome", Arthur Spooner wants the harpist at his wedding ceremony to play the piece. In The Simpsons episode "Boy Scoutz N' The Hood", where Bart becomes a Junior Camper after drinking a squishy-induced sugar high beverage from Apu, they reference Deliverance ("Dueling Banjos" playing while a shadowy figure giggles and watches the raft not carrying Bart, Homer, Rod and Ned Flanders on it while it floats downstream). In the Irish sitcom Father Ted episode "Good Luck, Father Ted", two of Craggy Island's locals parody the "Dueling Banjos" sequence from the movie Deliverance.In the Family Guy episode "The Perfect Castaway", Peter Griffin engages Michael Moore in a flatulence contest in the style of "Dueling Banjos". "Dueling Xylophones" by the comedian Bill Bailey "Dueling Tubas" by Martin Mull "Dueling Brandos" performed by John Belushi and Peter Boyle on Saturday Night Live. In the computer game The Curse of Monkey Island, Guybrush Threepwood challenges a pirate barber into a banjo duel at Plunder Island. Robin Williams does a short called "Dueling Planets" on his Reality, What a Concept album. A skit called "Dueling Carsons/Foxworthys" is used on ESPN Classic's Cheap Seats. Radio-host Ed Schultz uses "Dueling Banjos" as part of a recording involving Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell over Iraq. In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, Babs and Buster Bunny meet a small colony of country opossum. Buster has a banjo duel with one of them using his tongue, while the opossum's family tries to eat Babs. In the Married with Children episode "The Camping Show", Al Bundy and Steve Rhoades are replaying the banjo scene ("Dueling Banjos") of that film, in which Ed O'Neill was incorrectly rumored to have had a small cameo. In the opening scene of the Home Improvement episode "Back In The Saddle Shoes Again", Tim and Al have a contest on Tool Time to determine whose drywall banjo has the better compound in it. As "Dueling Banjos" plays in the background, they each start to use their banjos on a sheet of drywall (at first alternating between the parts, but later turning into a frenzy before fading to the opening credits). In The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. 2 part episode "High Treason", Pete Hutter and Sheriff Aaron Viva pass the time in their cell acting out the famous "Dueling Banjos" song from the film Deliverance.In the Futurama episode "The Deep South", the gang finds the old city of Atlanta. After the Colonel introduces them, Bender sings the first line of the tune. In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Harvey's Civvy", Judge Mentok the Mindtaker and newfound rival Shado the Brain Thief begin an impromptu challenge of mind powers to a tune similar to "Dueling Banjos", before retiring to a bar in the middle of a trial. In the The Beverly Hillbillies film, the extended members of the Clampett family play "Dueling Banjos" in an airplane. In the NCIS episode "Suspicion", Tony and McGee sing the opening part of "Dueling Banjos" to explain to Ziva what Boondocks are. In the anime Cowboy Bebop there is a in-show program called Big Shot that the bounty hunters of the Bebop use as reference to catch all their bounties. In the start of the opening tune of Big Shot, the tune sounds very familiar to the ending banjo segment of "Dueling Banjos". And if one has a close enough listening ear, it seems as if the entire banjo part of the song is playing in the background. [ More Detail ]
www.stringfever.com.au String Fever's best known comedy musical number Dueling Banjos - cello vs violin, wife vs husband. Live at the Melbourne Fringe Festival 2007, Theatreworks, St Kilda Victoria Australia [ More Detail ]
Guinness World Record attempt, Johnny Butten playing dueling banjos at an incredible 260 beats per minute on a Kel Kroydon KK10 banjo from American Made Banjo Co. at Cornish Bluegrass festival UK. www.johnnybutten.com [ More Detail ]
The 'Dueling Banjos' scene from the beginning of Deliverance. Ronny Cox plays Drew, who, while they stop to figure out how to get some gas and figure out how to get their cars up river, plays guitar with the hillbilly kid, who tears it up well on the banjo and plays circles around Cox. Quite an uplifing scene, as all the characters in the scene take notice and have a good time- including the hillbilly's family. Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty are Cox's buddies on their nightmare trip. [ More Detail ]
chart: unknownedited it up and added sp to it, passed w/o the sp this time :)link to chart: http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7188must be registered at scorehero to view link [ More Detail ]
Andrew and Mark dueling it out. ( Andrew on Banjo and Mark on Guitar)Hello, this is our cover of the song "Dueling Banjos" and this is our very first attempt at posting this song on YouTube. We are very aware that there are some problems that occured with the preformance. We are working on making another "Dueling Banjos" video. Please do not criticize us, for we worked hard pracitcing this song for your entertainment. We will look into having our instruments capoed. It will sound a lot better if everyone will just be patient. Thank you from Andrew and Mark. [ More Detail ]
HI !!! A friend of mine called ("the captain") gave me as birthday present this banjo, also i received yesterday this new gretsch country guitar so i can't help to record a little video with it, i'm not a banjo player that's why i used guitar technique on it, but i love country music ,sorry for the mistakes and being out of tempo hahahaha etc... just i had a lot of fun, i hope you enjoy the video , it was recorded at home, thanx for watching all the best !!!! [ More Detail ]
Banjo Hall of Famer, Tim Allan, plays BOTH tenor banjo and guitar, while including his audience, to perform Dueling Banjos- from his "In Concert" DVD.(www.timallan.com) [ More Detail ]
Banjo Paterson wrote the poem 'The Man From Snowy River'. Its as Australian as you can get. He tells the story of the tough horsemen of Snowy Mountains. Footage is from the movie 'Man From Snowy River' presented by Michael Edgley International &Cambridge Films - perhaps the greatest movie ever made in Australia by Australians. It stars Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Sigrid Thornton and Kirk Douglas (for US distribution purposes &the money men), he did a pretty good job all in all. For those of you who have not seen the movie do yourselves a favor and go get the DVD. You will not regret it. [ More Detail ]
The Dueling Banjos from Deliverance kick the living bejeezus out of any Guitar Hero ego I ever had.Notechart by ? Some editing done by socrstopr.Thanks to my sister for the applause at the end.More on customs...Read this FIRST:http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5716Then try your hand here (NOTE: You will need to register at scorehero.com before you can see the custom songs sub-forum):http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=16 [ More Detail ]