"Good Old Mountain Dew" was used as the first advertising theme for the newly created Mountain Dew soda. He sold the rights to the song for a train ticket home. In 1964 Lunsford was the subject of a documentary film, shot with a 16mm hand held camera, by New York City filmmaker, David Hoffman. Discography Song and Ballads of American History and of the Assassination of American Presidents (1952) Smokey Mountain Ballads (1953) (Folkways) Minstrel of the Appalachians (1956) (Riverside: RLP 12-645) Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1956) (Riverside) Music from South Turkey Creek (1976) (Rounder Records) Ballads, Banjo Tunes and Sacred Songs of Western North Carolina (1996) (Smithsonian Folkways) Notes References Jones, Loyal. Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Appalachian Consortium Press, 1984; Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002). Jones, Loyal. 2017. My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. External links Listen to "Dry Bones" at the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection (30 - second sample) Listen to "I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground" at the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection Listen to "Mountain Dew" at the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection Listen to "Lost John Dean" at the Internet Archive's Open Source Audio collection (30 - second sample) by David Hoffman 1882 births 1973 deaths People from Mars Hill, North Carolina American fiddlers American banjoists American folk-song collectors American folklorists Old-time musicians 20th-century American lawyers Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni North Carolina Democrats Appalachian old-time fiddlers 20th-century violinists