Editing The Beverly Hillbillies (section)

==Theme music==
The show's [[theme music|theme song]], "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", was written by producer and writer Paul Henning<ref name="Hobson Ladd 2016 p. 139">{{cite book | last1=Hobson | first1=F. | last2=Ladd | first2=B. | title=The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South | publisher=Oxford University Press | series=Oxford Handbooks | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-19-049394-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnVeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT139 | access-date=February 20, 2022 | page=139}}</ref> and originally performed by [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] artists [[Foggy Mountain Boys]], led by [[Lester Flatt]] and [[Earl Scruggs]]. The song is sung by Jerry Scoggins (backed by Flatt and Scruggs) over the opening and end credits of each episode. Flatt and Scruggs subsequently cut their own version of the theme (with Flatt singing) for [[Columbia Records]]; released as a single, it reached number 44 on [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] pop music chart and number one on the [[Hot Country Songs|''Billboard'' Hot Country]] chart (the lone country chart-topper for the duo).

As was customary in the early 1960s, the show's advertising sponsors were woven into bumpers involving the cast. To this end, the show sometimes included extra verses of the theme song about [[Winston (cigarette)|Winston]] cigarettes and [[Kellogg's]] cereals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metv.com/stories/the-beverly-hillbillies-theme-song-once-had-extra-verses-to-promote-cereal-and-cigarettes|website=Me TV|title=The Beverly Hillbillies theme song once had extra verses to promote cereal and cigarettes|date=January 12, 2023|author=MeTV Staff|accessdate=August 7, 2023}}</ref>

[[Perry Botkin]] composed many songs for ''The Beverly Hillbillies''.  Botkin's upbeat tune from ''Murder by Contract'', played during scenes of sunny LA, signaled scenes at the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills.

The six main cast members participated on a 1963 Columbia soundtrack album, which featured original song numbers in character. Additionally, Ebsen, Ryan, and Douglas each made a few solo recordings following the show's success, including Ryan's 1966 novelty single, "Granny's Miniskirt".

The series generally features no [[country music]] beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally play on the program. Pop singer [[Pat Boone]] appears in one episode as himself, under the premise that he hails from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, although Boone is a native of [[Jacksonville, Florida]].

The 1989 film ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' featured a [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] parody music video, "[[Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*]]", combining "[[The Ballad of Jed Clampett]]" and English rock band [[Dire Straits]]' 1985 hit song "[[Money for Nothing (song)|Money for Nothing]]".