| Eight Hundred FiftySecond in the Famous People (FP) Series - Phil Balsley |
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Despite the band's name just two of its four members are brothers, and none of them are named 'Statler'. The band in fact named themselves after a brand of facial tissue (they have joked that they could have turned out to be the Kleenex Brothers). Don Reid sings lead and is the younger brother of Harold Reid, who sings bass. The other members are baritone, Phil Balsley and tenor, Jimmy Fortune, who replaced original Statler Lew DeWitt in the early 1980s due to the latter's ill health.
Since forming, the Statler Brothers have released over 40 albums. They received Grammy Awards in 1966 and 1973. Two of their best-known songs are "Flowers on the Wall", their first big hit, and the socially-conscious "Bed of Rose's". In the 80s, the Statlers were a mainstay on CMT where their videos were shown regularly. During the 1990s, they hosted The Statler Brothers Show, a weekly variety show on the cable television channel The Nashville Network. Throughout their career, much of their appeal was related to their considerable ability for comedy and parody that they frequently interspersed into their musical act; they were frequently nominated for awards for their comedy as well as their singing. They recorded two comedy albums as "Lester Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys," and one-half of one side of the album "Country Music Then and Now" was also devoted to satirizing small-town radio stations' Saturday morning shows.
Philip Elwood Balsley (born August 8, 1939 in Staunton, Virginia) sings baritone for the presently-retired country quartet The Statler Brothers. Due to his quiet presence on stage and humble appearance, he is known as "The Quiet One" of the Statler Brothers.
Due to his past experience as a book keeper at his fathers' sheet metal business (before the Statler Brothers were professional entertainers), Phil has been given credit for overseeing a large part of the Statler Brothers' business organization.
Although he seldom participated in any of the song writing activities of the Statler Brothers, Phil's versatile baritone vocals played a major role in the quality of the Statler Brothers' harmony.
Ridge Park Cemetery hosts the FP Statler Series. Phil's cache is a diabetes test strip container and should be the toughest of the four to find. That's how those *quiet ones* are. Please make an effort to replace it to match the Difficulty rating so the next cachers may enjoy the same experience.
FP cemetery caches are always placed with regards to the location, so please be mindful of your presence here, watch where you step and be respectful of the residents interred here. Please carefully re-hide the container better to maintain the integrity of the cache.
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Avoid the use of acronym only logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.