28-11-2009, 11:58
YouTube - The Statler Brothers - Flowers On The Wall live Denmark '71
from wikipedia
"Flowers On The Wall" is a song made famous by country music group The Statler Brothers. Written and composed by the group's original tenor, Lew DeWitt, the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, and reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100 chart.
In the years since its release, "Flowers on the Wall" became one of the trademark songs of the Statler Brothers' 40-year career.
The song is a wryly humorous account of a man's isolated life. Recounting his sad, daily pursuits, "Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all, playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo," are all acts of boredom and lost purpose as well as isolation. The Chorus of the song ends with the words: "So don't tell me I've nothing to do."
The song gained exposure amongst a new generation after it was used by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction. In that film, it was sung by Bruce Willis, who would also quote lyrics from the song in Die Hard...With A Vengeance.
The lyrics of this song were broken down and analyzed in Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday.
An instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the 1980's TVNZ programme It's A Dog's Show.
Beech-Nut Company, when marketing its packages of chewing gum, which it promoted as having eight sticks per package as against the seven with which the Wrigley Company then packed into its packages of chewing gum, but for the same price, based its jingle on the verse melody, with the lyrics: "That other gum's got seven sticks and Beech-Nut gives ya eight./Eight sticks for the price of seven--ain't that great!"
from wikipedia
"Flowers On The Wall" is a song made famous by country music group The Statler Brothers. Written and composed by the group's original tenor, Lew DeWitt, the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, and reaching No. 4 on the Hot 100 chart.
In the years since its release, "Flowers on the Wall" became one of the trademark songs of the Statler Brothers' 40-year career.
The song is a wryly humorous account of a man's isolated life. Recounting his sad, daily pursuits, "Counting flowers on the wall, that don't bother me at all, playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo," are all acts of boredom and lost purpose as well as isolation. The Chorus of the song ends with the words: "So don't tell me I've nothing to do."
The song gained exposure amongst a new generation after it was used by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction. In that film, it was sung by Bruce Willis, who would also quote lyrics from the song in Die Hard...With A Vengeance.
The lyrics of this song were broken down and analyzed in Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday.
An instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the 1980's TVNZ programme It's A Dog's Show.
Beech-Nut Company, when marketing its packages of chewing gum, which it promoted as having eight sticks per package as against the seven with which the Wrigley Company then packed into its packages of chewing gum, but for the same price, based its jingle on the verse melody, with the lyrics: "That other gum's got seven sticks and Beech-Nut gives ya eight./Eight sticks for the price of seven--ain't that great!"