Depression. Sitting around not caring what happens. Hiding from your friends. When it was written the writer was just dumped by his girlfriend. He had fallen into a deep depression and just stopped caring about everything.
I'm 20 years old and just heard this on the radio yesterday and it caught my ear. This is the kind of music that should always be on the radio. Very good stuff.
I first heard it back in 1999 when I was about 18. David Kersh recorded it in the 1990's. He did a pretty good job, it's just more upbeat than the original. 🙂
RIP Harold Reid, the basso profundo of the group. This song is my favorite, especially when Harold sings the “kang” syllable before the others do. He will be missed...😢
That is also my favorite too! Rumor has it that Harold's "nuts dropped" on the same night that he was conceived, hence the deep baritone voice that makes Barry White sound like a "eunuch" by comparison! Hahaha
Don't worry... at the rate things are going, we should be knocked all the way back to the stone age before too long. Nukes, viruses, AI ? What's your guess?
A great song by a legendary group! Congrats to the Statler Brothers for being elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame! They truly deserve the honor!
I just read where Harold Reid passed away last night at age 80. This just breaks my heart.( I'm a die hard Statler Brothers fan.) I began listening to them in the early 70's when I was only 15 or 16 years old. I just, finally purchased their farewell concert CD and DVD. Fly high Harold, you will be missed by many!
Those of us who got to grow up sharing these songs and shows with family band friends are unbelievably lucky. I miss programs like these. So much has been lost..
Being much too young to know if these bands looking back ok them and the culture back then seems people were more happy. Their eyes had light and they looked healthy
@@TheReaper0101 I know this comment is 3 years old but I keep seeing people posting things like this and feel the need to reply. People most certainly were not "happier" back then, it's just that creating media and disseminating it took a tremendous amount of effort. Some people had mild success with independent content, but mass distribution was heavily controlled by network executives. You can be sure that all of the content they pushed out was packaged in a very specific way. Nowadays any person of any age and any demographic can roll out of bed and make and post any type of media/discussion they want at the push of a button/touchscreen. You get to see raw parts of humanity instead of what an executive thinks is most profitable. That being said, social media platforms and their algorithms nowadays are definitely trying to push us back towards a system where a few people in control get to decide what everyone sees, but it's not nearly the same as it was 60 years ago.
Half a century later and this song is still awesome. Isn't it interesting that one of the things that TH-cam, ubiquitous entertainment nexus of the early 21st century, does really well is make it lightyears easier than it used to be for this generation to discover and enjoy the greatest elements of culture from their parents' and grandparents' generations, things they otherwise may have ridiculed and rejected just because it's "old"?
LOVE this song, the other night I blasted this shit all over Downtown LA & Hollywood with the T-Tops out, them muh fuggers couldn't believe me,.. SUCKERS!!!....Statler Brothers FOREVER!!!
this has been one of the greatest tunes of my 60+ year memory. I not only remember Captain Kangeroo, I also remember countin" flowers on the wallpaper in my aunt"s living room.
Reminds me of my dad who passed away on 3/4/21 he was a musician and played many different instruments. We used to sing this together all of the time. He was only 64.
I can't believe I feel so sad over Harold's passing, like someone in my family. I loved his humor, his looks, his deep, deep bass--I wait for the Kang....before the others come in with Kaangaroo. The very best of all of the groups ever to come on the country scene, or any other genre for that matter. Their harmony was so well done, a perfect balance of all of the parts. They were a class act, always nice and well-spoken. Truly, they were America's poets. And they never let their fame and money go to their heads. I just feel profoundly saddened that their era has passed. The world discovered them in the 60s; I discovered them in 2019 and can't get enough of them! I wasn't there when Lew passed but Jimmy has been a very talented replacement, a beautiful voice and skilled string player. He is the best of the best they could have found--and they deserved the best.
1965! Their breakthrough hit! How young they look ( slim, for Harold!). Long before Lew fell ill with Crones disease! Of course, I was only 16 but I took an instant liking for their harmony!
I was a young teenage girl when I heard this about 50 years ago (maybe a little longer). I was really into folk music and the DJ on the radio called it a folk tune back then. I loved it then and still do...thanks for posting...brings back nice memories and look how young the Statlers are.
Harold Reid, bass singer and head lunatic, of the Statlers, passed away yesterday from kidney failure. My aunt passed away a few weeks ago from kidney failure and she was in her late 70s. Close to home for me. But, we won't see his kind again, at least, not in my lifetime. RIP, sir. Well done.
What a classic by The Statlers. They do look so young and are very good looking. I love all of the songs that The Statlers have recorded through the years. They have always looked so classy and professional which isn't very common these days sad to say. We saw them in a great show here in our city about 1981 and their fans truly adored them. We do miss Lou so much. Thank you for posting this winner. - Paula
When I was 11 or 12, my best friend Rob Herrman gave me this single for my birthday. We played it a couple of times on the stereo and were in my room visiting. I had put the record on the bed and my younger brother came into the room, sat on the record and broke it right in half.
I absolutely get where the song is coming from in its original sense but I am a person that really enjoys being alone so I relate to the lyrics in the more upbeat way like the song is sung. I quite enjoy watching life go by now that I've reached 71. That's the beauty of great song lyrics, they can mean different things to different people in different times
To note, Lew DeWitt (shown with the guitar), suffered from Crohn's Disease for years; but despite going through a lot of pain, he always put a smile on his face to perform and entertain. His life was just like this song.
The Irony is this song about crippling depression HELPED me get through my own Dark Night of the Soul. It always puts a smile on my face. (I grew up watching Captain Kangaroo, and listening to The Statler Brothers!) 😁
Great song and a fantastic band! Thanks a lot, Tarantino! This song and Do you know you are..., More than a name..., Class of 57, Do you remember... are my top favorites. Greetings from Romania! :)
The Statler brothers are class act all the way, good appearance well spoken and a great example for the young people.............................................
The Statler Brothers are from my home town and had Happy Birthday USA for 25 years bringing in country music stars every year like Johnny Cash and June Carter, just name about any top star then and they came. They were discovered by Johnny Cash and toured with him and then had the highest rated variety show on CMT for 7 years when they struck out on their own. They are all fine men and harmonize beautifully. I've seen one at the Food Lion many times and worked the hot dog stand with another one at a high school football game. Another always came to our basketball games. Anybody who doesn't like their singing is just plain sick in the head and I'm not even a big country music fan, I prefer rock so put that in your pipe and smoke it !!
I'm 114 years young, and my best girl and I went to see them at the rhubarb jamboree down by the crick. 253 years later, she's still my best girl and we shake our asses to this sick jam every Thursday at 2 pm. SZ xo 😍
Oh man, I love this song...! I am a (born in the year of this songs’ release) young man, but discovered it when I was 9-10yrs young, listening to an all country radio station (don’t know the call sign/letters), on a “tube” radio, very late at night, (because that was when the signal was the strongest/clearest), while in bed, supposed to be sleeping, and had school the next morning... I was on the west coast at the time, I kinda recall the radio station coming out of a station on Wyoming... Thank you for posting...
I love this song too, I have loved it for about 60 years! I remember when it first hit! That poor guy playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51! Good luck with that one hoss!
I can listen to this song Flowers on the Wall from The Statler brothers all day and not get tired of it. Love this song I was in fact putting down Linolium and forgot about it as I listened on and on over and over again.
One year at Christmas, one of my classes exchanged names for gift giving. The guy that got my name knew how much I loved this song so he bought the 45 for me. I LOVED IT!!!
I have always liked this song since I was a little kid back in the sixties. When I grew up I figured out what the song was about and the humour the writers used.
I love everything about this song. Harmonies,; men in suits...clapping...meaningful lyrics...no idea about any, presumably, recent, negative, connotations. It's just a fabulous song....and I assume, 'Captain Kangaroo' is a real programme...I'm sure I could go online and find out, but, after 50 years of listening to this, I prefer not to know...
Captain Kangaroo was a children's show that was on TV early in the morning. "Playing solitaire till dawn...Watching Captain Kangaroo" means that the man can't sleep because his girlfriend broke up with him. So he stays up all night "counting flowers on the wall[paper]."
I confess I hadn't heard this song until I saw Pulp Fiction. I fell in love with song and have to watch this performance everyday. Thank you for putting it up.
Thank you to everyone who has liked & replied to this video. Sure, there's some disagreements here but the constant level of maturity & not resorting to the childish antics usually found in most comments sections of videos on YT is a breath of fresh air. Once again, thank you all for just appreciating this video.
I'm 17 and I absolutely loved this song from my childhood now I know you guys are like "Oh man 17? You don't know much about music" we'll actually I grew up on classic country my dads a huge classic country guy every time were in the truck we always have classic country quizzes like who's singing that what's the name he usually gets them all right lol but any a really great and amazing song
My local radio station plays this song atleast once every two hours. Right behind Queen of the Silver Dollar and just before All the Gold In California. Old memories
Music is pretty much my life. I play it, I produce it, I've lived for it for quite some time now. While I've never been a big fan of this particular genre, if someone were to ask me what is the greatest lyrical masterpiece ever set to song, in about the amount of time it takes a batter to decide to swing at a fastball, my answer would be this song.... and I'd sit on Townes Van Zandt''s shoulders, look Bob Dylan in the eye and tell him to his face. In my opinion, lyrically, best song ever.
Thank you Harold. Rest in peace. Miss you and your deep voice on "Captain KANGaroo". Then the decades of comedy. Your "arrest" in Canada on bullshit tariff charges. Then there was the JD Sumner roast. You were the star of them all. Thank you so much for a life well spent!
I remember this as a kid. Its lyrics are extremely clever. Yes, it appears he has run into his 'ex-GF' who borke up with him, and yes he's getting over it. Counting flowers on the wall, etc. shows he's working through it, with some dark humour, but is confident he'll get over it. Reminds me of the matter-of-fact acceptance of fate that makes the song 'King of the Road' similar in attitude. Life throws you curves...but you can get by, given time. And what a video! Talent, talent, talent.
Being 39 I'm probably one of the younger fans of the Statler Brothers. My mother was a huge fan so I grew up listening to them. I'd not seen them this young but I was thrilled I could tell who's who!
I first heard this song in the 1960's on a children's dance show called the Chuck McCan Dance Hour on Metromedia TV NYC. I enjoyed the uptempo rhythm of the song. The big charm was the mention of Captain Kangaroo. Now it is a song about someone withdrawing into a deep depression. At least he had people checking up on him.
I remember when this song first came out. It hit the top 10 on the pop charts. There are some songs that are not really of any genre, but instead cover many musical areas, and this song is definitely one of them. First Statler Brothers song I ever heard, and I've been in love with their music ever since. Thank you for sharing the video with us, teqtonyk. Much appreciated.
I remember this song because of the mention of Captain Kangaroo. Whatever happened to Mr. Moose,Mr Rabbit and Mr Greenjeans? Fond memories. 😀🦋🌈 RIP Harold 🙏❤🌹
Wow...awesome video of the Statler Bros. My grandma is one of the biggest fans of the Statlers you'll ever meet. She has every one of their albums they have ever released so I grew up listening to them. This is my favorite song of theirs as well as their Gospel songs.
Reminds me of living on a farm in rural WA in the mid 60's and overhearing our neighbor Mrs V talk about her son who did indelicate things to livestock.
I recently lost my father to diabetes brought on by years of alcohol abuse. He was a clever, kind and thoughtful man who'd become afflicted by something that in the end he just couldn't stop. This song always reminded me of him even when he was still alive, someone who desperately wanted to give an illusion of well being and grandeur despite being in tremendous inner turmoil almost everyday. The line "Slow the swigger down" will always run home one a personal level for me. Dad, you were a gent and a scholar, ill miss you forever.
Gosh, it's crazy to think that that baby is old enough now that I could have a semi-ordinary conversation with them and I can just _watch_ this video on TH-cam and read your comment...
Nine months pregnant. "Countin' flowers on the wall". Can't play solitaire cause my belly won't allow my arms to reach the table. Can't smoke. Capt. Kangaroo's in a nursing home. That baby must be half grown now. Give him/her my best. Happy you survived those last 3 weeks.
Thank you so very much!! Keeping this wonderful classic posted is absolutely appreciated and this classic is so well done and so beloved. once I just don't think I can thank you enough.
I'm not a card player but I've heard that you can never win the game of solitaire with 51 cards. What a clever lyric. I still love that song. Thank you Lew Dewitt!
So this has been here for 16 years now. Sixteen years. I was 31 when I uploaded this. 2008 was a different time. I hope you're all doing well and I wish you all the best for the future 👍❤️
"Playing solidare with a deck of fifty-one" A deck of cards has 52 cards in it, And having a deck of cards with one missing means, "not playing with a full deck" slang for being mentally deranged,
Rarely, can you point to a song that is an ultimate representation of an emotion or the ultimate summary of a point in your life. However, that is what this song is for depression.
I actually live in Staunton ,Va. Home of the Statler Bros. This song is about the life of the patients at Western State Hospital. One or more of the group worked there at one time or another . I worked there myself, most patients get out of bed go to the day room,smoke,drink coffee,stare at the walls then go back to bed ! Sad !
The greatest song about crippling depression ever written.
Lars Andersen. Awesome. Thrilled!
Solid.
Or just introversion.
We might need this song again soon.
“Humorous “ take on loneliness
Depression. Sitting around not caring what happens. Hiding from your friends. When it was written the writer was just dumped by his girlfriend. He had fallen into a deep depression and just stopped caring about everything.
Currently hiding from friends
Currently getting over getting dumped
@@Wiener-Fag I am sorry. Hang in there. Things will get better.
Thanks mate
@@Wiener-Fag You are welcome.
I'm 20 years old and just heard this on the radio yesterday and it caught my ear. This is the kind of music that should always be on the radio. Very good stuff.
I first heard it back in 1999 when I was about 18. David Kersh recorded it in the 1990's. He did a pretty good job, it's just more upbeat than the original. 🙂
I meant that Eric Heatherly sang it, not David Kersh! Lol! David Kersh did Hello Walls. 😉
Young man, If you only knew...........
A lot of very good music in the 60s and 70s.
Or what ever that Moose name was
RIP Harold Reid, the basso profundo of the group. This song is my favorite, especially when Harold sings the “kang” syllable before the others do. He will be missed...😢
When they appear I find myself watching Harold only! He was the best!!!! And I am like you. That "kang" gets me everytime!
That is also my favorite too!
Rumor has it that Harold's "nuts dropped" on the same night that he was conceived, hence the deep baritone voice that makes Barry White sound like a "eunuch" by comparison! Hahaha
@@Stanley.77 Harold was certainly eunuch- er, I mean unique!
I wish i was here for this era of music so much
Great song, with some of the best lyrics ever written imo. "Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" - a line that will never be forgotten.
Yeah easily amused tv and smokes all some need.
When I uploaded this, the world was very different.
I wish we could go back to those times.
Likewise my friend and I'm only 19 :(
Agreed. Going back to the 80's would be awesome but even 10-15 years ago would be nice.
Don't worry... at the rate things are going, we should be knocked all the way back to the stone age before too long.
Nukes, viruses, AI ? What's your guess?
Perfect song for staying at home and social distancing
Perfect song reminds me of Dylan and Eric
You can keep your "New normal" leave a great song out of it. SMH
@@kylelynch2172 Holy shit..I thought the same thing..-.-
@@floramedve5329 really?
@@kylelynch2172 Yeah..I just watched the Columbine tapes..(And no,this wasn't the first time:"))I don't know..It's just so absurd:/
A great song by a legendary group! Congrats to the Statler Brothers for being elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame! They truly deserve the honor!
I just read where Harold Reid passed away last night at age 80. This just breaks my heart.( I'm a die hard Statler Brothers fan.) I began listening to them in the early 70's when I was only 15 or 16 years old. I just, finally purchased their farewell concert CD and DVD. Fly high Harold, you will be missed by many!
RIP Harold Reid. Say hello to Lew, Johnny and June. And Luther too.
Wow!!!! Hadn't heard this until you posted it. RIP Harold.
Who was Luther that was named in the We Got Paid by Cash song?
And Carl Perkins too, he was a member of the Tennessee Three too. He played Second Guitar, and briefly Lead after Luther died.
Yes, rest in peace Johnny, June, Luther, Marshall, Harold, Lew, Anita, Helen, Mother Maybelle, and Carl.
sad to read this. I loved his voice.
Those of us who got to grow up sharing these songs and shows with family band friends are unbelievably lucky. I miss programs like these. So much has been lost..
Being much too young to know if these bands looking back ok them and the culture back then seems people were more happy. Their eyes had light and they looked healthy
@@TheReaper0101 I know this comment is 3 years old but I keep seeing people posting things like this and feel the need to reply.
People most certainly were not "happier" back then, it's just that creating media and disseminating it took a tremendous amount of effort. Some people had mild success with independent content, but mass distribution was heavily controlled by network executives. You can be sure that all of the content they pushed out was packaged in a very specific way.
Nowadays any person of any age and any demographic can roll out of bed and make and post any type of media/discussion they want at the push of a button/touchscreen. You get to see raw parts of humanity instead of what an executive thinks is most profitable.
That being said, social media platforms and their algorithms nowadays are definitely trying to push us back towards a system where a few people in control get to decide what everyone sees, but it's not nearly the same as it was 60 years ago.
Godspeed Harold Reid. Thank you so much for bringing joy in my life. Rest in Peace. 4/25/2020
Half a century later and this song is still awesome.
Isn't it interesting that one of the things that TH-cam, ubiquitous entertainment nexus of the early 21st century, does really well is make it lightyears easier than it used to be for this generation to discover and enjoy the greatest elements of culture from their parents' and grandparents' generations, things they otherwise may have ridiculed and rejected just because it's "old"?
LOVE this song, the other night I blasted this shit all over Downtown LA & Hollywood with the T-Tops out, them muh fuggers couldn't believe me,.. SUCKERS!!!....Statler Brothers FOREVER!!!
I hope everyone is doing well during these times.
Folks, stay safe and thank you all for the positive comments here.
this has been one of the greatest tunes of my 60+ year memory. I not only remember Captain Kangeroo, I also remember countin" flowers on the wallpaper in my aunt"s living room.
Me too isn't that funny 👏🏼😅🤣😂🤭
Reminds me of my dad who passed away on 3/4/21 he was a musician and played many different instruments. We used to sing this together all of the time. He was only 64.
I can't believe I feel so sad over Harold's passing, like someone in my family. I loved his humor, his looks, his deep, deep bass--I wait for the Kang....before the others come in with Kaangaroo. The very best of all of the groups ever to come on the country scene, or any other genre for that matter. Their harmony was so well done, a perfect balance of all of the parts. They were a class act, always nice and well-spoken. Truly, they were America's poets. And they never let their fame and money go to their heads. I just feel profoundly saddened that their era has passed. The world discovered them in the 60s; I discovered them in 2019 and can't get enough of them! I wasn't there when Lew passed but Jimmy has been a very talented replacement, a beautiful voice and skilled string player. He is the best of the best they could have found--and they deserved the best.
Lester p Moran and his Cadillac cowboys if I'm not mistaking it's been a while
1965! Their breakthrough hit! How young they look ( slim, for Harold!). Long before Lew fell ill with Crones disease! Of course, I was only 16 but I took an instant liking for their harmony!
AT 82 I recall so well that this song was my intro to these fabulous entertainers!!! Love em still!!
I was a young teenage girl when I heard this about 50 years ago (maybe a little longer). I was really into folk music and the DJ on the radio called it a folk tune back then. I loved it then and still do...thanks for posting...brings back nice memories and look how young the Statlers are.
Absolutely timeless and classic
Harold Reid, bass singer and head lunatic, of the Statlers, passed away yesterday from kidney failure. My aunt passed away a few weeks ago from kidney failure and she was in her late 70s. Close to home for me. But, we won't see his kind again, at least, not in my lifetime. RIP, sir. Well done.
Head lunatic 🤣 I would agree
What a classic by The Statlers. They do look so young and are very good looking. I love all of the songs that The Statlers have recorded through the years. They have always looked so classy and professional which isn't very common these days sad to say. We saw them in a great show here in our city about 1981 and their fans truly adored them. We do miss Lou so much. Thank you for posting this winner. - Paula
When I was 11 or 12, my best friend Rob Herrman gave me this single for my birthday. We played it a couple of times on the stereo and were in my room visiting. I had put the record on the bed and my younger brother came into the room, sat on the record and broke it right in half.
I absolutely get where the song is coming from in its original sense but I am a person that really enjoys being alone so I relate to the lyrics in the more upbeat way like the song is sung. I quite enjoy watching life go by now that I've reached 71. That's the beauty of great song lyrics, they can mean different things to different people in different times
Well said. I know I'm getting old because I remember watching Captain Kangaroo, sometimes on our spare black and white TV.
Harold Reid has just passed away at the age of 80. He was always my favorite.
To note, Lew DeWitt (shown with the guitar), suffered from Crohn's Disease for years; but despite going through a lot of pain, he always put a smile on his face to perform and entertain. His life was just like this song.
Thank you. I haven't recovered from the loss of Harold.
The Irony is this song about crippling depression HELPED me get through my own Dark Night of the Soul. It always puts a smile on my face. (I grew up watching Captain Kangaroo, and listening to The Statler Brothers!) 😁
Great song and a fantastic band! Thanks a lot, Tarantino! This song and Do you know you are..., More than a name..., Class of 57, Do you remember... are my top favorites. Greetings from Romania! :)
The Statler brothers are class act all the way, good appearance well spoken and a great example for the young people.............................................
They also didn't have a choice at that point in time.
Lol.
The Statler Brothers are from my home town and had Happy Birthday USA for 25 years bringing in country music stars every year like Johnny Cash and June Carter, just name about any top star then and they came. They were discovered by Johnny Cash and toured with him and then had the highest rated variety show on CMT for 7 years when they struck out on their own. They are all fine men and harmonize beautifully. I've seen one at the Food Lion many times and worked the hot dog stand with another one at a high school football game. Another always came to our basketball games. Anybody who doesn't like their singing is just plain sick in the head and I'm not even a big country music fan, I prefer rock so put that in your pipe and smoke it !!
Always did like this song. Sad to hear about the bass singer passing. RIP
I was fortunate enough to see the Statler Brothers give a performance near Chicago in the summer of 1990.
That's awesome to hear Mr. Seaton
RIP Harold Reid, and Thank you for the music...
I'm 114 years young, and my best girl and I went to see them at the rhubarb jamboree down by the crick. 253 years later, she's still my best girl and we shake our asses to this sick jam every Thursday at 2 pm. SZ xo 😍
what
More talent in 2 minutes than 99% of the garbage today!!! Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo....LOVE IT
Oh man, I love this song...!
I am a (born in the year of this songs’ release) young man, but discovered it when I was 9-10yrs young, listening to an all country radio station (don’t know the call sign/letters), on a “tube” radio, very late at night, (because that was when the signal was the strongest/clearest), while in bed, supposed to be sleeping, and had school the next morning...
I was on the west coast at the time, I kinda recall the radio station coming out of a station on Wyoming...
Thank you for posting...
I'm from Russia, I've loved the Statlers' music for 4-5 years.
I love this song too, I have loved it for about 60 years! I remember when it first hit! That poor guy playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51! Good luck with that one hoss!
RIP Harold Reid! My grandparents probably were in line to welcome you. They taught me to appreciate your type of music.
The song that was a beginning of an era. RIP Harold and Lew. True fans will remember u all forever
The Statler Brothers are one of country music's greatest!! Love their harmonies and could listen to them all day long!!
You gotta luv it. This is song that will live as long as people enjoy creativity
Hearing their music remindes me of being a kid my mom's favorite country music REST IN PEACE MOM love you
Dean O'Shea Dad in my case. Happy memories.
This is great stuff! I am retired and sing this all the time! Thank you!!
I can listen to this song Flowers on the Wall from The Statler brothers all day and not get tired of it. Love this song I was in fact putting down Linolium and forgot about it as I listened on and on over and over again.
One year at Christmas, one of my classes exchanged names for gift giving. The guy that got my name knew how much I loved this song so he bought the 45 for me. I LOVED IT!!!
Great song! Greetings from Russia))
P.S. Thanks to Quentin Tarantino and his "Pulp fiction" for knowledge about this song)
Best movie of all time
Definitely
do u know what that means? its not nice to swear
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Buddy, I heard this song before he was born.
I have always liked this song since I was a little kid back in the sixties. When I grew up I figured out what the song was about and the humour the writers used.
I love everything about this song. Harmonies,; men in suits...clapping...meaningful lyrics...no idea about any, presumably, recent, negative, connotations. It's just a fabulous song....and I assume, 'Captain Kangaroo' is a real programme...I'm sure I could go online and find out, but, after 50 years of listening to this, I prefer not to know...
yes it is
Captain Kangaroo was a children's show that was on TV early in the morning. "Playing solitaire till dawn...Watching Captain Kangaroo" means that the man can't sleep because his girlfriend broke up with him. So he stays up all night "counting flowers on the wall[paper]."
Shared on my Facebook by Gene Watson and I shared it to my Facebook music group in honor of Don Reid's birthday today!
This was my younger brother's favorite song...thank you for the memories...
I confess I hadn't heard this song until I saw Pulp Fiction. I fell in love with song and have to watch this performance everyday. Thank you for putting it up.
Thank you to everyone who has liked & replied to this video. Sure, there's some disagreements here but the constant level of maturity & not resorting to the childish antics usually found in most comments sections of videos on YT is a breath of fresh air.
Once again, thank you all for just appreciating this video.
9 years ago oo
One of my favorite songs you sing my mom loved it back then I was so young. Thanks love love the statler..bros.
R.I.P Harold... thanks for the memories... you will be missed
I'm 17 and I absolutely loved this song from my childhood now I know you guys are like "Oh man 17? You don't know much about music" we'll actually I grew up on classic country my dads a huge classic country guy every time were in the truck we always have classic country quizzes like who's singing that what's the name he usually gets them all right lol but any a really great and amazing song
My local radio station plays this song atleast once every two hours. Right behind Queen of the Silver Dollar and just before All the Gold In California. Old memories
I can't understand why anyone would hate this song this is my favorite statler brothers song
Reminds me of my weekly trips with my Grandpa as a kid in his 53 international feed truck to the feed store.
An all time classic. They don't make em like this anymore Thanks for the upload
Country music lover or not, these guys made great music.
Music is pretty much my life. I play it, I produce it, I've lived for it for quite some time now. While I've never been a big fan of this particular genre, if someone were to ask me what is the greatest lyrical masterpiece ever set to song, in about the amount of time it takes a batter to decide to swing at a fastball, my answer would be this song.... and I'd sit on Townes Van Zandt''s shoulders, look Bob Dylan in the eye and tell him to his face.
In my opinion, lyrically, best song ever.
Thank you Harold. Rest in peace. Miss you and your deep voice on "Captain KANGaroo". Then the decades of comedy. Your "arrest" in Canada on bullshit tariff charges. Then there was the JD Sumner roast. You were the star of them all. Thank you so much for a life well spent!
I remember this as a kid. Its lyrics are extremely clever. Yes, it appears he has run into his 'ex-GF' who borke up with him, and yes he's getting over it. Counting flowers on the wall, etc. shows he's working through it, with some dark humour, but is confident he'll get over it. Reminds me of the matter-of-fact acceptance of fate that makes the song 'King of the Road' similar in attitude. Life throws you curves...but you can get by, given time. And what a video! Talent, talent, talent.
Classic slice of American folklore, love, regret, heartache and pain. Just about every emotion in life. Good, good stuff! Love The Stats.
This song was written by Lew Dewitt--the guy with the guitar. They won a Grammy for this one, beating the Beatles! (I'm glad)
Being 39 I'm probably one of the younger fans of the Statler Brothers. My mother was a huge fan so I grew up listening to them. I'd not seen them this young but I was thrilled I could tell who's who!
I first heard this song in the 1960's on a children's dance show called the Chuck McCan Dance Hour on Metromedia TV NYC. I enjoyed the uptempo rhythm of the song. The big charm was the mention of Captain Kangaroo. Now it is a song about someone withdrawing into a deep depression. At least he had people checking up on him.
I was born in 1967 ....This is the first song I remember hearing ...Coming from a old stand up tube radio in my parents basement...
I remember when this song first came out. It hit the top 10 on the pop charts. There are some songs that are not really of any genre, but instead cover many musical areas, and this song is definitely one of them. First Statler Brothers song I ever heard, and I've been in love with their music ever since. Thank you for sharing the video with us, teqtonyk. Much appreciated.
Wow. Amazing performance clip. Thank you.
Me and my grandmother used to listen to this song all the time. I love you so much grandma rest in peace.
I just heard this on the radio today, have not heard from when I was a child. Thank you
Awesome! Bummer the bass isn't caught by the microphone enough.
Oh, you love the bass like I do!!! He is great!!
Grew up listening to Dad singing Statler Brothers among other classics. Loved these guys.
One of the best quarantine songs out there.
Listened to this at my grandfather's funeral today, it's a good one.
I loved this song when I was a kid. The Statlers were one of my favorites.
Had the 45 of this. Great song and easy to sing along!
I remember this song because of the mention of Captain Kangaroo.
Whatever happened to Mr. Moose,Mr Rabbit and Mr Greenjeans? Fond memories. 😀🦋🌈 RIP Harold 🙏❤🌹
Wow...awesome video of the Statler Bros. My grandma is one of the biggest fans of the Statlers you'll ever meet. She has every one of their albums they have ever released so I grew up listening to them. This is my favorite song of theirs as well as their Gospel songs.
This is a great song. I've loved it since it came out.
Reminds me of living on a farm in rural WA in the mid 60's and overhearing our neighbor Mrs V talk about her son who did indelicate things to livestock.
Rest in Peace Harold Reid. Statlers had the best harmonies.
I recently lost my father to diabetes brought on by years of alcohol abuse. He was a clever, kind and thoughtful man who'd become afflicted by something that in the end he just couldn't stop. This song always reminded me of him even when he was still alive, someone who desperately wanted to give an illusion of well being and grandeur despite being in tremendous inner turmoil almost everyday. The line "Slow the swigger down" will always run home one a personal level for me.
Dad, you were a gent and a scholar, ill miss you forever.
I started singing this song today as I was thinking about how bored I am sitting here nine mos pregnant. I love this song!
Gosh, it's crazy to think that that baby is old enough now that I could have a semi-ordinary conversation with them and I can just _watch_ this video on TH-cam and read your comment...
Nine months pregnant. "Countin' flowers on the wall". Can't play solitaire cause my belly won't allow my arms to reach the table. Can't smoke. Capt. Kangaroo's in a nursing home.
That baby must be half grown now. Give him/her my best. Happy you survived those last 3 weeks.
This brings back good memories parents had all of the Brothers 8tracks as kids we spent a lot of road time with them playing :)
Thank you so very much!! Keeping this wonderful classic posted is absolutely appreciated and this classic is so well done and so beloved. once I just don't think I can thank you enough.
I'm not a card player but I've heard that you can never win the game of solitaire with 51 cards. What a clever lyric. I still love that song. Thank you Lew Dewitt!
So this has been here for 16 years now. Sixteen years.
I was 31 when I uploaded this. 2008 was a different time.
I hope you're all doing well and I wish you all the best for the future 👍❤️
Thank you and you also. Be well
How wonderful, to You Tube , to bring & make these songs available !!
Bravo !!!
Smoking cigarettes and watching captain kaaangaroo
Invisible Lead Soup I happened to see this comment as this part of the song was playing
Yeeeap
"Playing solidare with a deck of fifty-one" A deck of cards has 52 cards in it, And having a deck of cards with one missing means, "not playing with a full deck" slang for being mentally deranged,
Invisible Lead Soup 3:41 am
"... don't tell me, I've nothin' to do."
The Statler Bros were WAY ahead of their time. This song is proof.
Thanks all over the place for posting this.
Rarely, can you point to a song that is an ultimate representation of an emotion or the ultimate summary of a point in your life. However, that is what this song is for depression.
I actually live in Staunton ,Va. Home of the Statler Bros. This song is about the life of the patients at Western State Hospital. One or more of the group worked there at one time or another . I worked there myself, most patients get out of bed go to the day room,smoke,drink coffee,stare at the walls then go back to bed ! Sad !
When country was country and this music today so called “country” is not country
Agreed this music this day is terrible
Programmers today would call this "too country."
No such thing as too country.
Agreed!
You do realize that TH-cam is an international thing? :)
You mean you Ruskies did it too?Fantastic!