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- Guitar Boogie
- Arthur Smith was born on April 1, 1921 in Clinton, South Carolina, USA. He was a composer, known for Deliverance (1972), The Marine (2006) and Big Fish (2003). He was married to Dorothy. He died on April 3, 2014 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
- SpouseDorothy(? - April 3, 2014) (his death, 3 children)
- Father of Clay Smith.
- His hobbies included boating and sports fishing. He founded the Arthur Smith Sportsfishing Tournaments, which ran for almost 20 years on the Carolina coast, Florida, New York, and the Great Lakes.
- He was an influential guitarist in country and early rock 'n' roll. He also ran a recording studio and record labels, and had a successful career as a radio and TV presenter.
- Warner Brothers studio used a cover version of Smith's 1955 composition "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos" for use in Deliverance (1972). Banjo player Eric Weissberg, who recorded "Dueling Banjos" for the movie, said he'd grown up playing that piece and thought it was an old traditional song with no known writer, and nobody bothered to check. Smith sued Warner Brothers for using his song without permission, and won substantial royalties.
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