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- The Statler Brothers disbanded and retired after they completed their farewell tour on October 26, 2002. The band played their last concert performance in the 10,000-seat Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia, after 38 years on the road.
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The Statler Brothers (sometimes simply referred to as The Statlers) were an American country music, gospel, and vocal group from Staunton, Virginia. The quartet was formed in 1955 performing locally, and from 1964 to 1972, they sang as opening act and backup singers for Johnny Cash. [1]
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- “Atlanta Blue”
- “Left Handed Woman”
- “Monday Morning Secretary”
- “Who Am I to Say”
- “You Can’T Have Your Kate and Edith, Too”
- “Nobody Wants to Be Country”
- “How Great Thou Art”
- “Too Much on My Heart”
- “Let’s Get Started If We’Re Gonna Break My Heart”
- “Hello Mary Lou”
The rare showcase for bass Harold Reid, “Atlanta Blue” includes a twist on their standard pop-bluegrass fare with a period-appropriate reggae lite groove. The single gives run-of-the-mill longing and despair a specific geography, tying the narrator’s sadness to Georgia pines and summertime. It reached No. 3 on Billboard’s country chart, arriving du...
The Statlers touted their ability to heed country convention, exemplifying what they saw as a long-lost reverence for the genre’s tradition and roots. Yet a weird streak runs through much of their work, as in this sort-of nonsense song about women and their idiosyncrasies penned by the only actual brothers in the Statlers, Don and Harold. It’s fun ...
This quietly tragic character study is one of the more unlikely singles in the Statler Brothers’ catalog. It is, simply, two minutes and 42 seconds of description of a week in the life of an average secretary. There’s impressive precision in the lyrics, the kind of sensitivity that the Statlers’ rapidly ascending singer-songwriter peers on the outl...
The first of ten songs written for the band by Harold Reid’s daughter Kim, “Who Am I To Say” expresses a more reflective kind of regret than typically gets expressed in song. “If I’d only been more open and understood her ways,” they sang – words that plenty of women have certainly wished plenty of men would say to them in conversation, and here th...
One of the more ubiquitous of the Statlers’ novelty tunes, this Curly Putman and Bobby Braddock tune reached No. 10 on Billboard’s country chart by riffing on an already-established pun (one that has reached into the present day, perhaps with help from the Statlers). The song was popular enough that the Statler Brothers included it in their brief s...
People have been lamenting the decountrification of country music since before it was called country music. None of them, though, wrote a line as clean as, “They’ve traded in the saddle and they all try to straddle the road that will take ‘em to the top” – except the Statler Brothers, of course, who bust out all available Appalachian trappings to p...
Gospel music is where the Statler Brothers started. Unlike many of their peers, though, they continued recording religious songs even after finding secular success. The group released this classic hymn as a single to promote a pair of gospel albums based on the Old and New Testament respectively. That was their only concession to commercialism, tho...
Jimmy Fortune took the lead on this, his third No. 1 composition for the Statlers. It’s a weighty ballad, with more of the synth and string adornments often found in pop music of the decade. Yet the lyrics help it avoid cliche, painting a couple on the verge of fracture that only has a vague sense of why. The song would be the Statlers’ final chart...
Some of the good humor that the Statlers would soon showcase on their televised weekly variety show is on display in this minor hit, a honky tonk-ready tune that tells the story of a doomed love affair. It’s funny, and not only because of the inexplicable calypso piano riffs – the wordplay and warm resignation is convincing. If the Statlers were no...
The Statlers never did many covers, especially in the later phase of their career. But in reprising this rockabilly hit, they turned a 25-year-old song into a hit, reaching No. 3 on Billboard’s country chart. It has a more straightforwardly country sound than the original, but maintains a solid groove (bolstered by bass Harold’s low end harmonies).
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Mar 6, 2020 · The Statler's, formed in 1955, came to national prominence in 1965 with the release of their first (mega)hit 'Flowers On The Wall'. Of course, only two of the boys were actually brothers, Harold and Don Reid.
Apr 25, 2020 · Country Music Hall of Famer Harold Reid, founding member of the Statler Brothers, died at his home Friday evening. His death was confirmed by his nephew Langdon Reid, the son of Statler Don...
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Apr 26, 2020 · Harold Reid, the bass singer in the long-running country vocal quartet the Statler Brothers, died Friday night at age 80. A post on the group’s website said that Reid “had bravely endured a...
Jan 16, 2015 · For Country Music Hall of Fame members the Statler Brothers, 2015 is a year of celebration: It marks five decades since the Virginia-based quartet first released Tom T. Hall‘s “The Ballad of ...
