I had the privilege of seeing and meeting them when I tended bar at the Ohio Theater in Columbus Ohio years ago. Harold, the bass, was phenomenal. As a classically trained bass singer, I can and do keep up (or down) with him!
I still have an autographed picture of them i got when i was just about 11 or 12 years old when they were at Tombstone Junction near Cumberland Falls in ky. That was in the late 60's.
This was recorded back when they worked on the Johnny Cash Show. They look so young.... They later recorded a tribute to Johnny called 'We Got Paid By Cash.'
Great song to honor and thank Johnny Cash for helping make them into the group they became. He took them on tour having them open up for his concerts and was proud of their success. They never forgot Johnny Cash even when they became stars touring on their own.
Love the Statler Brothers. So many favorites by them. Absolutely want to hear you play "Silver Medals and Sweet Memories. Would be so grateful if you have time someday. Thanks, Harri.
I prayed for dear Annie that the Lord would heal her and bless her heart and soul. Thanks for the Statler Brothers Bed of Roses. Jimmy Fortune joined them soon after one retired, and sang with them for many years. Thank you and the Lord bless you and yours.
Get well soon AnneB ❤ love the song, Loved Johnny Cash, The background guitar rif, reminded me so much of San Quentin Was he playing in the backup band 🧐☺️🎼
Anne thanks for this request as I love the Statler brothers Soo very much. I hope you are getting well and know the besties sending you ❤❤❤!! Harri love your giddy reaction to the bass will have to submit another one Monday 🤭🤗🤗 Thank you both
@@anniebubls1 oh miss Annie...the statlers are my favorite as I was raised in the 70s on an army base in Germany my mom painted and she listened to them and John Denver and Anne Murray...then group/duet wise id have to say Alabama Sugarland and the Dixie chicks. But there are sooo many. And not just country I love Fleetwood Mac Supertramp Styx Chicago....I love music so dearly. How about you? Oh yeah but Pink is my favorite artist I've been in love with her for half my life...lol
The Statlers one of the great group in music.I wouldn't bet the farm but I think they have mure Emmys in gospel than any other act. If You really like them just bring up their Greatest Hits album and pick a song
Yes Johnny Cash loved them like they loved him. They wrote and recorded a tribute song for Johnny called 'We Got Paid by Cash." The turn of phrase is typical of The Statlers. Its a great song with reacting to.
@@anniebubls1thank you for turning him on the Statlers!!!! I love them so much!!! Their music got me through a very bad childhood. I survived it because of their music and comedy. I could count on that new album they released every year and sometimes two a year! That kept me going. I thank God for them! When they retired it crushed me. I felt like I had lost my best friends. You are a LEGEND for introducing the Statlers. Too few reactors are doing their music though I put them out there for everyone I follow!!
@@StoptheInsanityofRegressivism I'm glad this helped you with growing up. I too, used music to help me. I still use music today. It's free therapy . LoL 😅
They lived not far from me and i have always loved their songs and the sweet harmony they mastered. They did many great songs too so hopefully you will also play some of their other hits. Thank you for playing all the good old songs from a time when real talent flourished in America.
This is an early version of the Statler Brothers. Lew Dewitt is on the right and was the Tenor. He got sick and had to leave the group. That is when Jimmy Fortune joined the group as the Tenor.
Harri you might enjoy Dailey and Vincent. They are a country/blue grass/gospel group with wonderful vocals and one member named Christian Davies has the deep bass singing you like so much. Try “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder”
If you like bass singers with a DEEP voice, you need to listen to J.D.SUMNER, listed in the GUINESS WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS as the LOWEST BASS IN THE WORLD! He was a backup singer for Elvis Presley but also sang with the Blackwood Brothers, the Masters Five and his own group, the Stamps Quartet. The song that won him the record in GUINESS was BLESSED ASSURANCE. Take a listen and you will be shocked!!
Thanks requesters and Harri for introducing me to the Statler Brothers through your recent reviews. I don’t think they were well-known in the U.K. At least I can’t remember them, and I was listening to Wally Whyton’s Country Club on BBC radio through the 1970s. ( I was a rather weird kid who discovered this programme on my little transistor radio, and was hooked, listening every Thursday night. Discovered all sorts of great singers and songs that my family and school friends weren’t interested in. But I don’t remember the Statler brothers…).
That lineup....left to right...bass vocalist Harold Reid, Phil Balsley - baritone, Don Reid - lead and the guitarist is Lew DeWitt.......Harold and Don Reid were brothers...no one in the group was ever named Statler
The Statler Brothers and Oak Ridge Boys were often played on Sundays around our house when I was a kid. Also, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, and Roy Clark. They were musicians my parents agreed upon, as my mother didn't care for what she called the more drunken and depressed country singers, and my father hated everything else pretty much. My mom had been a dance instructor at one time before she met my dad, so she preferred happier music.
Lead singer was Donna Reed air base man was his older brother Harold Reid Phil Bailey and Lou DeWitt were friends of Harold from school that he brought to the church choir blue DeWitt had a health problem and then Jimmy Fortune took his place. And Statler was a brand of tissues at the time
Love The Statler Brothers. I think this song has a deeper meaning. IMO I believe Rose taught him to be a man in every way. Not just about sex, but a man that knows how to treat people. Everyone thought she was a bad woman. She was the only one that helped him. Hope l'm making sense.
@ednafenton7558 That was exactly how I interpreted it, even as a very young 18 yr old. She was like a role model for me as a beginning on how to treat a man and people in general. My Grandma told me that for me to understand this at such a younger age, I was wise beyond my years. I have been "labeled" more than once as a gentle soul and peacemaker. I guess I'll take that. My Grandma was my role model. 😊🤎I learned so much from her, and STILL am, even though she has her wings now, but she often speaks to my heart and calms me when I'm troubled. It's hard to explain, but I'm glad she is with me always!❤️❤️
I have a crazy story involving one of the musicians in this video. The drummer for the Statler Brothers was the late, great Donald "Mousey" Morton, of Arab, Alabama, which is my hometown. Mousey and my uncle Pete were thick as thieves when they were kids. One day when they were 16 or so, they went into Hughes Cave, which is near Arab. It was the 1950's, so they had those great big metal flashlights that took several D-cell batteries. There were several hundred little brown bats hanging upside down inside the cave, and one of those boys took the batteries out of his flashlight and scooped one of those bats into the empty flashlight and screwed the lid on. Those boys then proceeded to the Frosty Freeze, which was an ice cream restaurant basically dead center in Arab, and there were a bunch of old church ladies in there having an ice cream social, or whatever they were doing. Those boys released that bat into the restaurant, and the old ladies shrieked and screamed and threw coffee and ice cream everywhere as that bat flew around. Made one hell of a mess. RIP Pete and Mousey. Crazy kids.
Here's one nobody ever requests.. The Doodlin' Song. I loved that song so much as a kid that i went through the trouble of writing the lyrics on paper so i would know it as if i wrote it. It wasn't easy for a kid in the forth grade to do. It was on an album my parents had. Once i had the words burnt into my head, i would sing it every where i went. the album took a beating with all that lifting up and setting the needle down over and over. My big brother saw me doing it and whooped my ass . . From that day forward i wouldn't lift that needle while it was playing. You always let an album play front to back on both sides, or else.
@@captainmoretokin2172The Reid brothers and Lew DeWitt were amazing songwriters. What is unheard of today is they had an almost 40 year career. Most acts these days don't last but a couple of years. That is truly hard work and dedication. I'm thankful that I got to see them in concert 3 times in the 1980's. They were true entertainers.
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They retired in 200e, I believe. Deep spice and lead are the only brothers, Harold and Don Reid. Falsetto was Lew Dewitt, replaced by Jimmy Fortune when illness forced him to retire. Harold died on his 80s of kidney disease. They were the best group on country mudic Look uo When the Roll Is Called up Yonder if you want to hear Harold@
They weren’t quite the same after they lost original member Lew Dewitt. He was their high tenor, guitar player and song writer. They replaced him and just didn’t sound the same.
I had the privilege of seeing and meeting them when I tended bar at the Ohio Theater in Columbus Ohio years ago. Harold, the bass, was phenomenal. As a classically trained bass singer, I can and do keep up (or down) with him!
Best vocal country quartet ever. I saw them 3 times live in concert. They were not good.... THEY WERE AWESOME.
Lew Dewitt, the group's original tenor, had the most beautiful, pure, blendable tenor voice ever!
My favorite is, Counting Flowers on the Wall. But they are all wonderful
@BonnieHaynes-gg4nk I, too, love them all!
Get well Annie. The Statlers have an awesome catalog. ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!❤
I still have an autographed picture of them i got when i was just about 11 or 12 years old when they were at Tombstone Junction near Cumberland Falls in ky. That was in the late 60's.
I would love to hear Class of 57...One of my many favorites...
Yes, that is a great one too!
One of my favorite songs from my childhood.
Flowers on the Wall...Class of 57...Elizabeth...Susan When She Tried...How To Be A Country Star...and many many more...dig deeper in this group...
Annie...please feel better soon. ♥️
Thank you so much! 😊❤
Wow. What memories? Thanks for this. I believe the man on the left, with the mustache was the GREAT BASS. Harmony like that is hard to find today.
Statler Brothers - my all time favorite western singers.
I saw them live several times. Amazing talent.
Arent they wonderful.
This was recorded back when they worked on the Johnny Cash Show. They look so young.... They later recorded a tribute to Johnny called 'We Got Paid By Cash.'
Great song to honor and thank Johnny Cash for helping make them into the group they became. He took them on tour having them open up for his concerts and was proud of their success. They never forgot Johnny Cash even when they became stars touring on their own.
Love the Statlers! Harold was always my favorite,too
"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine"!
"She asked so sweet and tenderly," do you know you are my sunshine"... and would you do it one more time for me".
Love the Statler Brothers. So many favorites by them. Absolutely want to hear you play "Silver Medals and Sweet Memories. Would be so grateful if you have time someday. Thanks, Harri.
I came here to say just that!!! Loved everything they ever did but that's my favorite.
@@peggygoddard8038 You made my day! Music sounds better when shared.
@@VirginiaPeden-Harrington-qd5zu I'll add that to my requests if you don't mind, and someone else doesn't request it before I have the chance. 😛😉
@@anniebubls1 Yes, please add it to your request. Thanks.
I prayed for dear Annie that the Lord would heal her and bless her heart and soul. Thanks for the Statler Brothers
Bed of Roses. Jimmy Fortune joined them soon after one retired, and sang with them for many years. Thank you and
the Lord bless you and yours.
Harold Reid (far left) sings bass. He passed away in 2020. His brother Don is the lead singer.
Oh, I'm so sorry to hear of his passing! I LOVED him so much! 😅
chills and goosebumps I love the gentleman that does the bass too !
This is my favorite Statlers song ❤❤❤
Get well soon AnneB ❤ love the song, Loved Johnny Cash,
The background guitar rif, reminded me so much of San Quentin
Was he playing in the backup band 🧐☺️🎼
@@agnetesorensenelbom5085 great question, but I don't know the answer. Did you find out yet? I could probably research it for you if you would like?
@@anniebubls1 That would be great ❤️🙏👍
@agnetesorensenelbom5085 I'll check it out! I can't do it now, so I better make myself a reminder note! Out of site, out of mind! 😆
I seen this on TV when I was a kid 😊
Anne thanks for this request as I love the Statler brothers Soo very much. I hope you are getting well and know the besties sending you ❤❤❤!! Harri love your giddy reaction to the bass will have to submit another one Monday 🤭🤗🤗 Thank you both
You are welcome! ❤ thanks for the get well wishes!
@@anniebubls1 of course. Look forward to more suggestions from you Love. I hope you are doing better. 🥰🥰🥰
@catherinedorney6092 BTW, I loved his giddy response also. Made me laugh, and God knows I have needed it! 😆
@@catherinedorney6092 thank you! Do you have a favorite quartet or duet? Hope you have a great 4th of July!🥳💥💥💣
@@anniebubls1 oh miss Annie...the statlers are my favorite as I was raised in the 70s on an army base in Germany my mom painted and she listened to them and John Denver and Anne Murray...then group/duet wise id have to say Alabama Sugarland and the Dixie chicks. But there are sooo many. And not just country I love Fleetwood Mac Supertramp Styx Chicago....I love music so dearly. How about you? Oh yeah but Pink is my favorite artist I've been in love with her for half my life...lol
Counting Flowers On The Wall 😊
If you love that deep voice you should listen to them sing "Oh baby mine "
The Statlers one of the great group in music.I wouldn't bet the farm but I think they have mure Emmys in gospel than
any other act. If You really like them just bring up their Greatest Hits album and pick a song
Wishing you a smooth recovery Annie and thanks for the pick.
❤❤❤
@@anneschreck5136 thank you so much! 🤎
@agnetesorensenelbom5085 ❤️ thank you for the love! All of these well wishes are causing my heart to feel a little bit lighter!🥰
@@anniebubls1 🙏😇🌹
@anneschreck5136 you are so welcome, and thanks for the well wishes! 😊
Get well soon Annie and thank you for this request.
You are very welcome! 😊 Thanks for the get well wishes!
You are welcome! Thank you for the get well wishes! 😊❤
Quite a Beautiful song!!!!!
The song " We Got Paid By Cash " tells about how Johnny Cash got the Statler Brothers started,,,, A Great Song.
Yes Johnny Cash loved them like they loved him. They wrote and recorded a tribute song for Johnny called 'We Got Paid by Cash." The turn of phrase is typical of The Statlers. Its a great song with reacting to.
@@StoptheInsanityofRegressivism I did tell him about this tribute song when I requested this, so maybe he has had the time to listen to it. 😊
@@anniebubls1thank you for turning him on the Statlers!!!! I love them so much!!! Their music got me through a very bad childhood. I survived it because of their music and comedy. I could count on that new album they released every year and sometimes two a year! That kept me going. I thank God for them! When they retired it crushed me. I felt like I had lost my best friends. You are a LEGEND for introducing the Statlers. Too few reactors are doing their music though I put them out there for everyone I follow!!
@@StoptheInsanityofRegressivism I'm glad this helped you with growing up. I too, used music to help me. I still use music today. It's free therapy . LoL 😅
The bass defines the word bass.
Get well Ms Annie! Settlers have so many fantastic songs!
Yes, they do! Thanks for the well wishss!😊
One of their best songs that really shows off the bass singer is Atlanta Blue. You won’t regret it!
I always loved The Statler Brothers, even when I was a kid and thought I didn't like country music. Harold, the bass singer, was a very funny guy too.
A great bunch of artists! Great song.
Lew Dewitt sang mostly full voice. He had stop singing due to health issues. The blend of their voices is amazing.
They have a great song called.... I'll Go To My Grave Loving You.
Love those harmonies! Great request and review! Thanks Harri and Annie🌺✌️
Much welcome! 😊
They lived not far from me and i have always loved their songs and the sweet harmony they mastered. They did many great songs too so hopefully you will also play some of their other hits. Thank you for playing all the good old songs from a time when real talent flourished in America.
Get Well Soon Annie ❤❤❤
Something else you would enjoy is Americana. Beauty Statler Farewell Concert America. You'll get to hear the bass man Harold Reid. You would love it.
This is an early version of the Statler Brothers. Lew Dewitt is on the right and was the Tenor. He got sick and had to leave the group. That is when Jimmy Fortune joined the group as the Tenor.
I hope you get better soon,Annie
@joanstoller9452 Thank you so much!🤎
Get well soon, Annie. And thanks for choosing this song.
Before watching let me say that you are in for a treat, Harri
Ah you did do Bed of Rose's. 😀
Lol Did you even catch the message of that song? 🤣🤣
I love the stories and turns of phrases in their songs. After all these years the phrase ‘and she died knowing that I really loved her’ still gets me.
Great pick! Try out Atlanta Blues and Oh Elizabeth. You will love them.
Harri you might enjoy Dailey and Vincent. They are a country/blue grass/gospel group with wonderful vocals and one member named Christian Davies has the deep bass singing you like so much. Try “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder”
You need to check out Roadhog Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys , a comedy act The Statler Brothers do.
If you like bass singers with a DEEP voice, you need to listen to J.D.SUMNER, listed in the GUINESS WORLD BOOK OF RECORDS as the LOWEST BASS IN THE WORLD! He was a backup singer for Elvis Presley but also sang with the Blackwood Brothers, the Masters Five and his own group, the Stamps Quartet. The song that won him the record in GUINESS was BLESSED ASSURANCE. Take a listen and you will be shocked!!
@larrydewein Yes! I remember this! I'll have to listen to it again! Thanks!
He should listen to "Way Down", J.D. hits the double low C, C1, Elvis last hit👍✌️
Feel better soon, Annie. Good choice.
Wilson Fairchild is a duet that do a great song A salute to the Statler Brothers
@@jomiiller6297 thanks for this info! I'll have to listen to it!
I agree, I just love the base voice, it is too bad there is not a lot of music that features base voices.
bass voice, oops
Thanks requesters and Harri for introducing me to the Statler Brothers through your recent reviews. I don’t think they were well-known in the U.K. At least I can’t remember them, and I was listening to Wally Whyton’s Country Club on BBC radio through the 1970s. ( I was a rather weird kid who discovered this programme on my little transistor radio, and was hooked, listening every Thursday night. Discovered all sorts of great singers and songs that my family and school friends weren’t interested in. But I don’t remember the Statler brothers…).
That lineup....left to right...bass vocalist Harold Reid, Phil Balsley - baritone, Don Reid - lead and the guitarist is Lew DeWitt.......Harold and Don Reid were brothers...no one in the group was ever named Statler
If you like the bass voice, listen to "Moon, Pretty Moon" in which he is featured.
The Statler Brothers and Oak Ridge Boys were often played on Sundays around our house when I was a kid. Also, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, and Roy Clark. They were musicians my parents agreed upon, as my mother didn't care for what she called the more drunken and depressed country singers, and my father hated everything else pretty much. My mom had been a dance instructor at one time before she met my dad, so she preferred happier music.
Lead singer was Donna Reed air base man was his older brother Harold Reid Phil Bailey and Lou DeWitt were friends of Harold from school that he brought to the church choir blue DeWitt had a health problem and then Jimmy Fortune took his place. And Statler was a brand of tissues at the time
Harold Reid was the guy with the deep voice who passed in 2020.
What Ever Happened to Randolph Scott! A song about big screen and T.V. cowboys!
Great suggestion ❤😊
@jerrybourland3346 YES, I love this one, too! I don't think there is ANY that I don't love. But some are my favorites to listen to more than others!😉
@@juliewhite7469 thank you!
@@anniebubls1 🥰
I would add "Do You Remember These?" to your playlist as well, although many of the cultural references are from the '50s.
@@kevinhouse4376 I have that on my list of songs to suggest to him at a later time if no one else requests it. 😊
That is one of my requests for this month 😂🎉
@@anniebubls1sorry Annie!
@@catherinedorney6092 AWESOME! NO problem. There's PLENTY of other great music to choose from. 😊
Love The Statler Brothers. I think this song has a deeper meaning. IMO I believe Rose taught him to be a man in every way. Not just about sex, but a man that knows how to treat people. Everyone thought she was a bad woman. She was the only one that helped him. Hope l'm making sense.
@ednafenton7558 That was exactly how I interpreted it, even as a very young 18 yr old. She was like a role model for me as a beginning on how to treat a man and people in general. My Grandma told me that for me to understand this at such a younger age, I was wise beyond my years. I have been "labeled" more than once as a gentle soul and peacemaker. I guess I'll take that. My Grandma was my role model. 😊🤎I learned so much from her, and STILL am, even though she has her wings now, but she often speaks to my heart and calms me when I'm troubled. It's hard to explain, but I'm glad she is with me always!❤️❤️
You made perfect sense.
@@chrisoakley5830 thanks! If that was meant for me. If not, thanks from them
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@@anniebubls1 You're welcome, I kinda meant it for both of you, I must admit that I never saw the deeper meaning to the song.😁
@@chrisoakley5830 is ok. Some men don't even listen to this song. They don't know what being a real man means. LoL. 😜 😜 jk
they did a song We got paid by Cash its a fun song give it a listen
I have a crazy story involving one of the musicians in this video. The drummer for the Statler Brothers was the late, great Donald "Mousey" Morton, of Arab, Alabama, which is my hometown. Mousey and my uncle Pete were thick as thieves when they were kids. One day when they were 16 or so, they went into Hughes Cave, which is near Arab. It was the 1950's, so they had those great big metal flashlights that took several D-cell batteries. There were several hundred little brown bats hanging upside down inside the cave, and one of those boys took the batteries out of his flashlight and scooped one of those bats into the empty flashlight and screwed the lid on. Those boys then proceeded to the Frosty Freeze, which was an ice cream restaurant basically dead center in Arab, and there were a bunch of old church ladies in there having an ice cream social, or whatever they were doing. Those boys released that bat into the restaurant, and the old ladies shrieked and screamed and threw coffee and ice cream everywhere as that bat flew around. Made one hell of a mess. RIP Pete and Mousey. Crazy kids.
To truly enjoy the bass singer (Harold), you should do a reaction to their cover of Ricky Nelson's "Hello, Mary Lou." Thanks!
Here's one nobody ever requests.. The Doodlin' Song. I loved that song so much as a kid that i went through the trouble of writing the lyrics on paper so i would know it as if i wrote it. It wasn't easy for a kid in the forth grade to do. It was on an album my parents had. Once i had the words burnt into my head, i would sing it every where i went. the album took a beating with all that lifting up and setting the needle down over and over. My big brother saw me doing it and whooped my ass . . From that day forward i wouldn't lift that needle while it was playing. You always let an album play front to back on both sides, or else.
Yes, that song wasn't a huge hit for them but a great song, I'm thinking probably on their first album in maybe 1966. Best country vocal group ever.
@@claylyons6447 ; That is correct sir. It was on their debut album. I love the play on words they did.
@@captainmoretokin2172The Reid brothers and Lew DeWitt were amazing songwriters. What is unheard of today is they had an almost 40 year career. Most acts these days don't last but a couple of years. That is truly hard work and dedication. I'm thankful that I got to see them in concert 3 times in the 1980's. They were true entertainers.
you should check out the late bass singer J D Summer
You should play We we’re paid by Cash
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This is Three Dog Night performing "Eli's Coming" (Live) with The Tennessee Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Three Dog Night along with Led Zeppelin, Blood Sweat & Tears, & Yes are one of my all-time favorite Rock Bands!!! Check it out and tell me what you think.
Lew Dewitt was a big part of the Statler Bros. Miss him.
Try Too Much On My Mind by the Statler Bros.
Correction: too much on my heart-statler bros.
They retired in 200e, I believe. Deep spice and lead are the only brothers, Harold and Don Reid. Falsetto was Lew Dewitt, replaced by Jimmy Fortune when illness forced him to retire. Harold died on his 80s of kidney disease. They were the best group on country mudic
Look uo When the Roll Is Called up Yonder if you want to hear Harold@
People always get the title wrong. It's Bed Of Rose's. The apostrophe is important.
Captain Kangaroo,his co host Mr Greene Jeans and Lee Marvin all served in the Marines during wwii.
They weren’t quite the same after they lost original member Lew Dewitt. He was their high tenor, guitar player and song writer. They replaced him and just didn’t sound the same.
If you want a good story about how they got started look up their song we got paid by cash
Yes that's a good one. Never a bad song from them.
The lead singer and bass man are brothers
@karowak1 YES, I did tell him this, as well as a few other tidbits of info. 😉