Talk:Dueling Banjos

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James Dickey first heard Dueling Banjos in a guitar/banjo arrangement by Portland, OR folk musicians Mike Russo and Ron Brentano in 1963. He was introduced to them first on tape and then in person by me and several other Reed College students who were teaching him guitar at the time. We all had great hopes that Russo and Brentano would do the music for Deliverance. When Warner Brothers decided to have Eric Weissberg and Steven Mandel do the music instead, Jim called me and appologized. He said he had no control over what Warner Brothers did, and he felt "like a prize pig at a pork judging contest."

This is can be verified in both "The World as a Lie - James Dickey", Henry Hart's biography, and "Summer of Deliverance" by James Dickey's son, Christopher.

John Ullman


Tiny Toons Adventures "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" also features a direct parody of this scene. (205.250.167.76 16:33, 13 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Movie studio theme

The riff can be heard before the start of some movies. It is the theme, and appears with the logo, of some production outfit. Does anyone know which one? - Matthew238 03:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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