Comments on: On this day #8 – Ballad of Jed Clampett http://bluegrasstoday.com/on-this-day-8-ballad-of-jed-clampett/ Your independent source of bluegrass news. Sat, 18 May 2013 13:26:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/on-this-day-8-ballad-of-jed-clampett/#comment-13357 Dick Bowden Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:55:56 +0000 http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=50596#comment-13357 Oh how I remember how excited we were when that show premiered! The word was “out” that Flatt & Scruggs played the theme. At that time it seemed completely normal and unremarkable that they played the Winston cigarette jingle, I suppose it’s horrifying now. They all smoked anyway, I guess.

I would have given my eye teeth to just ONCE see Earl pick the early part of the theme with that half speed meter to see HOW HE DID IT! I don’t know ANY banjo players who learn it. Notice also he didn’t play the IV chord “sharp” in the next to the last line like he always did afterwards, on the record and in person.

Before the show premiered, CBS advertised it heavily showing the footage of Jed shooting his squirrel gun and hitting the oil, but the music was F&S’ cut of “Sally Ann” from the Foggy Mt. Banjo LP!

]]> By: Mark Byrum http://bluegrasstoday.com/on-this-day-8-ballad-of-jed-clampett/#comment-13350 Mark Byrum Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:31:56 +0000 http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=50596#comment-13350 Wow! I haven’t heard the “Winston tastes good . . .” ad in the song in a long time! Thanks for sharing that old B&W clip. Earl’s double string bend between “Winston tastes good like a” and “cigarette should” was cool.

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