848 The Statler Brothers “Flowers on the Wall” 1965

“The ride began in the early 1960s when the Statler Brothers, who had formed in 1955 and later took their name from a box of tissues in a hotel room, first opened for Johnny Cash. Agent Marshall Grant had seen them perform in 1963 and remembered them the following year when Cash’s band was searching for background vocalists…The Statler Brothers’ own historic recording career commenced when Cash was late for a session at Owen Bradley’s fabled Quonset Hut studio. Cash producer and Columbia executive Don Law asked the group if it wanted to record something. Grant says, ‘So Don pushed the button and we recorded Flowers on the Wall’” (Jim Bessman, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2002). 

The Statler Brothers “Flowers on the Wall”