Duelling Banjos – Deliverance Soundtrack

This track from the Deliverance Soundtrack spent seven weeks in the UK top 40 in 1973.

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Forty years ago this week, Duelling banjos from the Deliverance Soundtrack reached its highest position of number 17 in the UK singles chart, having entered the top 40 three weeks previously at number 36. After one week at its peak position, the tune spent three more weeks in the top 40 and then left the chart.

Duelling banjos was released on the Warner Brothers record label. It was taken from the soundtrack of Deliverance and was the only single from the film to enter the UK chart.

More music from the Deliverance Soundtrack

 

UK singles chart for the week ending 21 April 1973

1. Tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree – Dawn featuring Tony Orlando

2. Hello! Hello! I’m back again – Gary Glitter

3. Get down – Gilbert O’Sullivan

4. Tweedle dee – Little Jimmy Osmond

5. I’m a clown / Some kind of a summer – David Cassidy

6. The twelfth of never – Donny Osmond

7. Power to all our friends – Cliff Richard

8. Drive in Saturday – David Bowie

9. Never, never, never – Shirley Bassey

10. Pyjamarama – Roxy Music

 

17. Duelling banjos – Deliverance Soundtrack