Steve Mandell

Stephen Arnold Mandell ( – March 14, 2018) and was awarded a Grammy.

Life and career Mandell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle, New York. No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles, and No. 1 on Adult Contemporary chart, and the tune was the theme of the 1972 film Deliverance. The song was also nominated for the 1972 Golden Globe Awards in the Best Original Song category. "Dueling Banjos" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance.

Mandell also worked on Broadway, and played in the 1976 musical The Robber Bridegroom. He also recorded advertising jingles.

In 1988, he left New York and moved to Baltimore. He died of prostate cancer on March 14, 2018, at the age of 76. He was an Owings Mills, Maryland resident at the time of his death.