"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody/cover of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits and The Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The music video, which appeared as part of Yankovic's film UHF, is also a parody of the video for "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits. The song features Dire Straits members Mark Knopfler on guitar and Guy Fletcher on synthesizer. On the DVD commentaries, Al notes that that was Knopfler's one condition for allowing the parody. Jim West, Yankovic's own guitarist, had then practiced the song for weeks, and, as a result of that and of Knopfler having played it for a couple of years and being much more relaxed with it, West's version sounded more like the original version.
The song is listed in the end credits of UHF as "'Money for Nothing'/'Beverly Hillbillies' Parody" and credits "Mark Knopfler and Sting" (writers of the original "Money for Nothing") and Paul Henning (writer of "The Ballad of Jed Clampett") as the writers.
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