{"id":4909,"date":"2024-06-04T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2024-06-04T12:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:43:21","slug":"legendary-quartet-of-brothers-wrote-a-heartbreaking-song-that-had-people-in-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohajone.press\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Legendary quartet of \u2018brothers\u2019 wrote a heartbreaking song that had people in tears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1963<\/a>, when Johnny Cash<\/a> was burning up the charts with his song<\/a> \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d he met four young men on stage at the Roanoke Fair in Virginia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After impressing Cash with their vocals, the men \u2013 known as the Statler Brothers \u2013 were hired \u201con a handshake,\u201d and toured with the \u201cMan in Black\u201d for almost 10 years, inspiring their song \u201cWe Got Paid by Cash.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep reading to learn more about the legendary quartet who made America cry with their song, \u201cMore than a Name on the Wall.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1963, when The Kingsmen hit the top of the charts with a song titled \u201cLouie Louie,\u201d the other Kingsmen, from Virginia, had to change the name of their quartet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four boys, Don and Harold Reid, Phil Balsley and Lew DeWitt, were on tour, in a hotel room pitching out some new names, to separate their band from the Oregon-based quintet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don earlier shared with a Virgina<\/a> publication that it was his eyes that struck a box of Statler brand tissues in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name stuck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe could have been the Kleenex Brothers,\u201d Don said of the new era of two brothers and two friends, now known as the Statler Brothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That same year, the Statler Brothers, whose country sounds blend with gospel harmonies, were playing at the Roanoke Fair in Salem, Virginia, when they captured the attention of the iconic Johhny Cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cash was at the Salem Fairgrounds promoting his 16th<\/sup> album and hired them \u201con a handshake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJohn was a walkin\u2019, talkin\u2019, singin\u2019 musical encyclopedia,\u201d Reid said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the next 10 years, the \u201cClass of \u201857\u201d singers toured, recorded and appeared on TV with Cash, who helped the young men become Columbia Records hitmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1965, their genre-bending song \u201cFlowers on the Wall\u201d was a top hit in country and pop music. Beating out the Beatles\u2019 \u201cHelp!\u201d and the Supremes\u2019 \u201cStop in the Name of Love,\u201d the Statler Brothers earned their first two Grammy Awards: Best New Country and Western Artist and Best Contemporary Performance (Group).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song\u2019s popularity again exploded in 1994, with the release of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s hit film Pulp Fiction<\/em>. In one scene, \u201cFlowers on the Wall\u201d is piping from the car radio as Butch (played by Bruce Willis<\/a>) runs down Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s<\/a> character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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