The show's theme song, " The Ballad of Jed Clampett ", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning and originally performed by bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs.

The song was sung by Jerry Scoggins ( backed by Flatt and Scruggs ) over the opening and end credits of each episode.

Earl Eugene Scruggs ( January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012 ) was an American musician noted for perfecting and popularizing a three-finger banjo-picking style ( now called " Scruggs style ") that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.

Although other musicians had played in three-finger style before him, Scruggs shot to prominence when he was hired by Bill Monroe to fill the banjo slot in his group, the Blue Grass Boys.

On September 24, 1962, singer Jerry Scoggins, Lester Flatt and Scruggs recorded " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " for the TV show The Beverly Hillbillies, which was released October 12, 1962.

In January 1973, a tribute concert was held for Scruggs in Manhattan, Kansas.

In 1989, Scruggs was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship.

On September 13, 2006, Scruggs was honored at Turner Field in Atlanta as part of the pre-game show for an Atlanta Braves home game.

On February 10, 2008, Scruggs was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards.

Scruggs was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

At an 80th birthday party for Scruggs in 2004, country singer Porter Wagoner said, “ Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball .” “ He is the best there ever was ”, Wagoner said, “ and the best there ever will be .”

The instrumental banjo piece " Foggy Mountain Breakdown " by Flatt and Scruggs was introduced to a worldwide audience as a result of its frequent use in the movie.

The Orangeville Independent Order of Odd Fellows, ( IOOF ) J. R. Scruggs Lodge 372 was formed on October 18, 1868.

Edward Scruggs continued to operate a successful farm and was a key figure in the community as part shareholder in the Hillsboro Turnpike Company, which constructed Hillsboro Pike.

The building was renamed the " Florence R. Scruggs Municipal Building " in 1996, after a long-time teacher at the school.

It was the hometown of Lester Flatt of the bluegrass music legends Flatt and Scruggs.

Fred Scruggs ( born January 1, 1970 ) better known by his stage name Fredro Starr, is an American rapper and actor from South Jamaica, Queens, New York best known as a member of hardcore hip hop group Onyx.

* February 20 – Venezuela Crisis of 1895: President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252 by William Lindsay Scruggs and Congressman Leonidas Livingston to the third session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America.

Rushmore ; Other Half ; Phoenix ; Lothar & the Hand People ; Commander Cody ; Cleveland Wrecking Company ; Rhythm Dukes ; AB Skhy Blues Band ; Frumious Bandersnatch ; Eighth Penny Matter ; Jimmerfield Legend ; South Side Sound ; Super Ball ; Solid Muldoon ; Box Top ; and jazz artists Sun Ra and San Francisco's own John Handy ; Charles Lloyd ; the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood ; and folksters Joan Baez ; Dave Van Ronk ; Jim Kweskin Jug Band ; Taj Mahal ; Tim Buckley and Flatt & Scruggs.

Most influentially, North Carolina country musicians like the North Carolina Ramblers helped solidify the sound of country music in the late 1920s, while influential bluegrass musicians such as Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Del McCoury came from North Carolina.

One of the defining characteristics of bluegrass — the fast-paced three-finger banjo picking style — was developed by Monroe's banjo player, North Carolina native Earl Scruggs.

* Scruggs, C. Eugene, " Tramping with the Legion: A Carolina Rebel's Story ", Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, 2006.

King, Asleep at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Luba, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Brian Wilson, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, jazz saxophonist Lou Marini and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs.

Dorton Arena has hosted countless performers over the years, including The Platters, Garth Brooks, Patty Loveless, Clint Black, Travis Tritt, Chubby Checker, Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Trisha Yearwood, Waylon Jennings, The Temptations, KISS, The Four Tops, Three Dog Night, George Jones, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Loretta Lynn, Village People, Josh Turner, Clay Aiken, Edwin McCain, Third Day, Blake Shelton, Earl Scruggs, Chris Brown, Casting Crowns, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler, Darius Rucker.

Later recorded by Hank Thompson, Merle Haggard, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, Asleep at the Wheel, and George Strait.

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

Bergman contacts Richard Scruggs ( Feore ) and Ron Motley ( McGill ) who, with Mississippi ’ s attorney general Mike Moore, are suing Big Tobacco to reimburse the state for Medicaid funds used to treat people with smoking-related illnesses.

Encouraged by his parents, Donahue took classical guitar lessons as a child, but it was Gerry McGee ( who later joined The Ventures ) who made the biggest impression on him, when the 14-year-old Donahue winessed him playing a behind-the-nut bend at a performance at the Sea Witch, emulating Earl Scruggs ' banjo technique.

Wernick was one of the members of the short-lived bluegrass supergroup Men with Banjos who Know How to Use Them, a group that included Steve Martin and Earl Scruggs among its other members.

Because of the personnel, particularly Scruggs, who has since become iconic in music history for his masterful handling of the banjo, the group is often considered as one of the premier bluegrass groups in the history of the genre.

Originally formed in 1948 by Flatt, who brought Scruggs with him shortly after leaving Bill Monroe ’ s bluegrass band.

Scruggs is considered one of the most influential players of the banjo who ever lived.

Scruggs, who had always shown progressive tendencies, experimented on duets with saxophonist King Curtis and added songs by the likes of Bob Dylan to the group's repertoire.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. ( VVMF ), was a non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, Jack Wheeler, and several other Vietnam War veterans, finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who died or were killed during the Vietnam War.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

The banjo and bass duets Earl Scruggs played even in the earliest days of the Foggy Mountain Boys hint at the wild chord progressions to come.

Scruggs ' mother played the organ.

On November 15, 1969, Scruggs played his Grammy-winning " Foggy Mountain Breakdown " on an open-air stage in Washington, D. C., at the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, becoming one of the very few bluegrass or country-western artists to give support to the anti-war movement.

In 2002 Scruggs won a second Grammy award for the 2001 recording of " Foggy Mountain Breakdown ", which featured artists such as Steve Martin on 2nd banjo solo ( Martin played the banjo tune on his 1970s stand-up comic acts ), Vince Gill and Albert Lee on electric guitar solos, Paul Shaffer on piano, Leon Russell on organ, and Marty Stuart on mandolin.

Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs played guitar and banjo while he sang the lyrics.

He has played drums or guitar for Earl Scruggs, Johnny Rodriguez, Johnny Cash, Gary Allan, Marty Stuart and many others.

Progressive bluegrass became popular in the late 1960s and 1970s, but it can be traced back to the banjo and contrabass duets that Earl Scruggs played even in the earliest days of the Foggy Mountain Boys.