Re: packards in tv and movies

Posted by Tim Cole On 2019/9/4 20:07:15

Not trying to go too far off track here, but that record is amazing because the executives at CBS seemed to be able to con Scruggs into almost any cheesy idea they came up with. That record has almost nothing to do with the movie. Sure they did a couple of tunes in the movie. It was made in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of the Hollywood movie. The soundtrack came out, I think, on Warner Brothers.

Now, that is not the first time they pulled Scruggs into something really bad. Back in 1955 a guy named Arthur Smith, one of the best tenor banjo players of all time, put out a record called Feuding Banjos which was a Tenor banjo playing against a Five String banjo. Well, CBS put in on TV without the tenor banjo, and then sold it to Hollywood, put out millions of records by Scruggs and Flatt titled Dueling Banjos, and got sued by poor Arthur Smith. But the damage was already done because Arthur Smith on banjo was God compared to Earl Scruggs who is a big banjo hero thanks to CBS and their tricky executives.