| Eight Hundred FiftyFifth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Don 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.
Donald Sidney "Don" Reid (born June 5, 1945 in Staunton, Virginia) is the retired lead singer and main songwriter. He wrote or co-wrote 40 of the Statler Brothers' 66 songs that made the Billboard country chart, including the #1 hit "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine."
In the early 1960s, Reid replaced Joe McDorman at lead vocals in a quartet that was changing its name from the Four Star Quartet to the Kingsmen. They would go on to become the Statler Brothers. McDorman had formed the group in 1955 with Lew DeWitt and Don's older brother Harold Reid while the three were teenagers.
Since the Statler Brothers' retirement in 2002, Reid has authored or co-authored three books: Heroes and Outlaws of the Bible, Sunday Morning Memories, and You'll Know It's Christmas When....
Ridge Park Cemetery hosts the FP Statler Series. Don's cache is medium sized, round twist lock.
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