The Ballad of Jed Clampett - wikipedia The Ballad of Jed Clampett This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2016 ) `` The Ballad of Jed Clampett '' Single by Flatt and Scruggs from the album Hard Travelin ' featuring the Ballad of Jed Clampett B - side `` Coal Loadin ' Johnny '' Released November 26, 1962 Genre Bluegrass Label Columbia Songwriter ( s ) Paul Henning Producer ( s ) Don Law Frank Jones Flatt and Scruggs singles chronology `` The Legend of the Johnson Boys '' ( 1962 ) The Legend of the Johnson Boys1962 `` The Ballad of Jed Clampett '' ( 1962 ) The Ballad of Jed Clampett1962 `` Pearl Pearl Pearl '' ( 1963 ) Pearl Pearl Pearl1963 `` The Ballad of Jed Clampett '' was the theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies TV show and movie, providing the back story for the series. The song was written and composed by Paul Henning, and recorded by bluegrass musicians Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, with Lester Flatt on vocals. The song was sung by Jerry Scoggins for the opening of the series. The single version, released to radio and retail sale, merged both the opening and closing lyrics of the theme song from the television series. The first two verses ( starting with `` Come and listen to a story about a man named Jed '' and `` Well the first thing you know, old Jed 's a millionaire '' ) comprised the opening theme, while the closing theme ( `` Now it 's time to say goodbye to Jed and all his kin... '' ) served as the third verse. A banjo - led bridge serves as the fill between verses and as the fade - out coda. Although the first two seasons of The Beverly Hillbillies lapsed into the public domain, `` The Ballad of Jed Clampett '' did not and is typically edited from public - domain releases of these episodes. Contents 1 Charts 2 Adaptations 3 Chart performance 4 Media 5 References Charts The song spent 20 weeks on the Billboard country singles charts, reaching a peak of number one for three weeks and reached # 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. Adaptations This article appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject 's impact on popular culture, using references to reliable sources, rather than simply listing appearances. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2017 ) During the original run of The Beverly Hillbillies, special lyrics were written and inserted into the opening theme, advertising regular sponsors such as Kellogg 's cereals and Winston cigarettes. `` Weird Al '' Yankovic merged the first two stanzas of the Ballad with the instrumentals to the Dire Straits song `` Money for Nothing '' in his 1989 single `` Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies * '', which was written for his film UHF. In the late 1970s, Saturday Night Live did a spoof on the Beverly Hillbillies in a sketch about a wealthy family from an oil - rich Mideastern country moving to Southern California. The theme song in the sketch was called `` The Bel - Arabs. '' During the Bill Clinton presidential administration, Saturday Night Live staged a spoof of the song, substituting Clinton 's name for Jed Clampett 's and changing the destination from Beverly Hills to the White House. Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck often plays the ballad in concert. Fleck also accompanied Scruggs on a re-recording of the song for the 1993 film adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies. On August 13, 2009, national broadcaster Q&A featured a spoof version of the song lampooning the leader of the Australian Liberal Party Malcolm Turnbull by Stefan Sojka - Bellevue Hillbilly - making fun of his wealth, his unpopularity as a leader and his admission that he once tried cannabis. Chart performance Chart ( 1962 -- 1963 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles U.S. Billboard Hot 100 44 Media The Ballad of Jed Clampett Listen to a part of this song. Problems playing this file ? See media help. References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 122. Jump up ^ `` Beverly Hillbillies Extra Verse # 2 - Kellogg 's ''. YouTube. 2008 - 04 - 02. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Beverly Hillbillies Extra Verse # 1 - Winston ''. YouTube. 2008 - 07 - 29. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Clinton Parodies ''. Yuksrus.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 27. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ballad_of_Jed_Clampett&oldid=853219628 '' Categories : Songs about fictional male characters 1962 songs 1963 singles Bluegrass songs Flatt and Scruggs songs Glen Campbell songs Television theme songs Novelty songs Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles The Beverly Hillbillies Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from September 2016 All articles needing additional references Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with trivia sections from February 2017 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2017 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 3 August 2018, at 06 : 25 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the theme song for the beverly hillbillies
Answer: Paul Henning