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Location: NJ | LOS ANGELES - Jerry Scoggins, who sang "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" that introduced the comical Clampett clan on "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. He was 93.
Scoggins, the lead singer of the Cass County Boys, died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Westlake Village.
In 1962, the country and western singer was working as a stockbroker and singing on weekends when he was asked to record a theme song for the pilot of the television series starring Buddy Ebsen.
Bluegrass stars Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played guitar and banjo on "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" while Scoggins sang the lyrics. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...sigh... and I played the banjo part of The Ballad of Jed Clampett last night at my Church meeting... loved his voice (much more resonant than Lester's) IMHO |
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Location: NJ | The Bad News: He's dead.
The Good News: He doesn't have to listen to that goddam BANJO playin' in his head anymore!!! . . . .
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ... the banjo has the ability to reverberate throughout the cosmos... there's no escaping! :eek: |
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Location: NJ | . . . much like bad karma. . . |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | You played Banjo Last night??? I wondered why my ears were ringing. Talk about the cosmos,..that one reache dall teh way to the east coast. :D |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ..kinda makes yer skin crawl, don't it~ |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | ....and significant erosion of tooth enamel. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You been drinkin white again? you're sposed to swaller it not swish it around your mouth! |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | We will miss Mr Scoggins
The banjo has inspired many, here is an ode from Japan
BANJOIST'S FATE HAIKU
awaiting his fate
banjo player picks and plucks
audience lynches
hanging from tall tree
banjo player's ghost picks foggy
townsmen bury atrocity
rising from boot hill
strains of earl's breakdown
all abandon ghost town |
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Jerry Scoggins