The Beverly Hillbillies - 1962 Foggy Mountain Soap 5-14 was released on:
USA: 14 December 1966
Flatt and Scruggs played many songs on the show. Their original songs include: "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", "Earl's Breakdown", and "Pearl, Pearl, Pearl".
It was an original song written for the Foggy Mountain Soap brand to the tune of "The Girl I Left Behind (Me)" sung and played by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, whose band was named the Foggy Mountain Boys. Here are the lyrics: Oh, the best durn soap is Foggy Mountain Soap. It gets yer clothes much whiter! You can bet your hat it'll make dirt scat And make yer whole day brighter!
Flatt and scruggs
Foggy Mountain Boys was created in 1952.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown was created in 1949.
Five famous pieces for the banjo include "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Earl Scruggs, "Dueling Banjos" from the movie "Deliverance," "Clinch Mountain Backstep" by Ralph Stanley, "Bile Them Cabbage Down," a traditional folk song, and "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," the theme from "The Beverly Hillbillies." These pieces showcase the banjo's unique sound and versatility across bluegrass, folk, and popular music genres.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown was written by Earl Scruggs. It was first recorded in 1949 by the bluegrass artists Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys.
It is not the Earl revue, its the foggy mountain boys, form by Mac Wiseman and Lester Flatt 1948
The original foggy mountain boys were; Mac Wiseman; lester flatt; earl Scruggs; cedric rainwater; and jim shutmate. later foggy mountain boys were josh grave and curley seckler . Mac Wiseman help form this group in 1948 and named them the foggy mountain boys. Mac wiseman is the only living one left.
The Foggy Mountain Boys, a bluegrass band led by Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, disbanded in 1969. They had been active for over 20 years before deciding to go their separate ways.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Lux Video Theatre - 1950 The Foggy Foggy Dew 2-30 was released on: USA: 17 March 1952