Eric Weissberg, Whose ‘Dueling Banjos’ Was an Unlikely Smash, Dies at 80
Eric Weissberg, half of the duo that recorded “Dueling Banjos” for the film “Deliverance” in 1973, resulting in an unlikely smash hit single and album, has died at 80. Family members and friends said Weissberg had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for years.