| Eight Hundred FiftyFourth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Harold Reid |
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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.
Harold Reid (born August 21, 1939 in Staunton, Virginia) is the bass singer for the The Statler Brothers. He wrote or co-wrote 17 songs that were hit singles for the group, including "Bed of Rose's" and the #1 hit "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine." The latter was written with his younger brother, Don Reid, the lead singer for the group.
The Statlers have a song called "We Got Paid By Cash" that tells the tale of how their career began, in "March of ‘64." The moving melody captures everything that makes the early Statlers so great - close-knit four-part harmony, humor, a snappy melody, and the clever play on words that typifies their music.
"It started March of '64, many years ago. We were hired by Johnny Cash to open up his show. Four boys, a worn-out Cadillac with a road-map on the dash. For the next eight and one-half years, we got paid by Cash."
Ridge Park Cemetery hosts the FP Statler Series. Harold's cache is a camo taped large pill bottle hidden just on the edge of the cemetery.
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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