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Tune Req: Dueling Banjos

13 Jul 03 - 04:08 PM (#982480)
Subject: duelling banjo's
From: mississippi john

HELP is there anybody out there who has got the music tab for Duelling banjo's ?????????
both for the guitar & the banjo


13 Jul 03 - 04:29 PM (#982487)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: X

I do. PM me and I'll get it to you.


14 Jul 03 - 10:53 AM (#982955)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: Sam L

I don't, but I want to register my protest that Duelling Banjos is played on a guitar and a banjo. What's the world coming to with all this doublespeak and misdirection?


14 Jul 03 - 11:15 AM (#982972)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: X

I tabbed out an arr. of the tune for ONE banjo...."Duellin' Banjo."


14 Jul 03 - 11:53 AM (#983000)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: Steve Parkes

Is it OK to bring a guitar to a banjo session?

Forget I asked that!

Steve


14 Jul 03 - 12:15 PM (#983022)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson

Dueling Banjos was released as "Feudin' Banjos" by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith & Don Reno (1955)

If I'm not mistaken, Smith played tenor and Reno 5-string.

Arthur Smith sued when the Deliverence movie came out and made a bundle off of the stolen song.


14 Jul 03 - 12:31 PM (#983040)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: X

You're not mistaken.


14 Jul 03 - 12:41 PM (#983043)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: Noreen

Geoff the Duck's version for banjo and kazoo has to be heard to be believed...! :0)


14 Jul 03 - 02:41 PM (#983158)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson

I don't think I need to hear it to believe it.

On second thought, which instrument answered which?

Wasn;t there a video game called Banjo Kazooie?


14 Jul 03 - 03:00 PM (#983177)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: oombanjo

I warned you !!!!!!!!!!


15 Jul 03 - 11:21 AM (#983785)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: Geoff the Duck

Does anyone know much about "Feudin' Banjos"?
How similar, or different, was the tune, compared to the well known (later) version?
Quack!
GtD.


15 Jul 03 - 12:28 PM (#983832)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: Steve Latimer

I have Feudin' Banjos. It's pretty similar to the Eric Weisburg version that was used in Deliverance.

The Darlings (really the Dillards) performed Duelling Banjos on an episode of The Andy Griffith show a few years before Deliverance came out.


15 Jul 03 - 03:05 PM (#983922)
Subject: RE: duelling banjo's
From: X

You can hear the Dillards arr. of "Duellin' Banjos" on their record, "Backporch Bluegrass."


20 Jul 03 - 12:32 PM (#987027)
Subject: dueling banjo's
From: GUEST,clareR

where can i get a blimp at the music 4 dueling banjo's? or what key is it usualy played in?


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20 Jul 03 - 12:38 PM (#987029)
Subject: RE: dueling banjo's
From: treewind

I bought a copy recently in a music shop!
Published by Warner Bros. if it helps.
In G.

Anahata


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20 Jul 03 - 07:16 PM (#987190)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST,clareR

thankyou treewind


21 Jul 03 - 08:25 AM (#987394)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Deckman

If my memory is correct, and it rarely is these days, I believe that Mike Russo of the Portland, Oregon area was first approached to do the guitar part for the film. He turned it down, I don't recall the reason. Does anyone else remember this story? Cheers, Bob


21 Jul 03 - 08:55 AM (#987410)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Inükshük

God, the tune must go further back than 1955. I used to listen to "Mocking Banjo" on the radio. It was done with a mandolin answering the banjo or vice versa. Somehow I remember the old fiddlers playing a very similar tune that they called "The End of a Dream."


21 Jul 03 - 03:41 PM (#987644)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Steve Latimer

I just listened to Feudin' Banjos again the other day. It's amazing how fast that Arthur Smith could flat pick that tenor. Don Reno moves it along pretty quickly himself.


21 Jul 03 - 04:06 PM (#987661)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST

Rumor has it that Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith gave Don Reno a few guitar lessons in the early 1950's. "Country Boy Rock & Roll" is probably the opening salvo in the current flatpicknig wars, not to detract one bit from my all-time fav Doc Watson.


21 Jul 03 - 07:33 PM (#987759)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Bernard

I've got a recording somewhere of 'The End of a Dream' played on banjos... it's definitely where the idea came from!


22 Jul 03 - 12:45 AM (#987887)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: X

"End Of A Dream" with banjos is on the old album "New Dimensions In Bluegrass" along with "Duellin' Banjos."


22 Jul 03 - 02:46 PM (#988286)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST

"Dueling Banjos" album from the early 70's was a slightly re-worked re-release of "New Directions In Banjo and Bluegrass" by Weissberg and Brickman, about 1962. Removed two or three numbers and reordered two or three others, substituting the Mandel/Weissberg tune from the movie. This is still found used in Goodwill and Salvation Army stores, the 1962 Elektra is certainly not easy to find. Clarence White does about half of the guitar work, but only the earlier record tells which breaks are his.


22 Jul 03 - 06:28 PM (#988412)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Mark Clark

The original “New Directions” album is up on eBay for the next couple of days. A CD of the newer release is up as well.

      - Mark


23 Jul 03 - 12:30 AM (#988571)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: X

Ah..The album I'm talking about is called "New Dimensions In Bluegrass" and it was released in the early 60's along with "Folk Banjo Styles." The album in question is now: (Warner Brothers BS 2720)


23 Jul 03 - 02:32 AM (#988584)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Mark Clark

The title of the album on eBay is “New Dimensions In Banjo And Bluegrass” on Elektra Records #EKS 7238 stereo.

Sorry for the error in my post.

      - Mark


23 Jul 03 - 05:42 AM (#988649)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Watson

And then there's Duelling Penguins...


23 Jul 03 - 10:14 AM (#988779)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Geoff the Duck

Howling with laughter at the Penguin!
QUACK!
Geoff the Duck.


23 Jul 03 - 11:08 AM (#988822)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Steve Latimer

Watson,

That's great!!!


23 Jul 03 - 02:12 PM (#988957)
Subject: RE: Duelling Banjos
From: mississippi john

Hi banjoest,

sorry for taking time is responding to your reply to my thread
RE: duelling banjo
it appears that you was the only sane reply to my message for the
guitar / banjo tab.
could you lead me in the right direction of the above,

yours

slow hand


24 Jul 03 - 12:04 PM (#989644)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST

slow hand... in another tread Jon W posted this site in1998.

                         http://www.bluegrassbanjo.org/


24 Jul 03 - 01:15 PM (#989719)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: X

Slow Hand:

The tab is on it's way to you. It's sitting in your computer right now.


02 Jul 08 - 04:20 PM (#2379445)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST,guyfromyourbanjo

dose anyone know where i can find the deuling banjos tabs for free?


03 Jul 08 - 06:02 AM (#2379845)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Brian Hoskin

At the Banjohangout

all the best
Brian


03 Jul 08 - 06:52 AM (#2379877)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Tattie Bogle

Loads of clips of Duelling banjos on Youtube, but this one's hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgV3MMWs6iQ


03 Jul 08 - 08:33 AM (#2379956)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: GUEST

Try this one - The Allies Quartet - Dueling Banjos
or this - Tim Allan (Banjo) - DUELING BANJOS
Quack!
GtD.


03 Jul 08 - 06:04 PM (#2380502)
Subject: RE: Dueling Banjos
From: Geoff the Duck

That GUEST was me, by the way!
Quack!
Geoff.