Yeah, I'll have to go with MacArthur park as well for pure pretentiousness.

Beachcomber. Hard to say if you were hearing the plectrum or Dave Guard on Five string on MTA. Guard was a pretty decent banjo player but his "Bluegrass" chops were restricted to ONE forward roll, played over and over again, with closed chords up the neck...pretty tedious. I THINK that it was Shane (or Guard) playing "plectrum" banjo on Tom Dooley.

Rick