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Flowers on the Wall

"Flowers on the Wall" is a song originally recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers. Written and composed by Lew DeWitt, the group's original tenor vocalist, the song peaked in popularity in January 1966, spending four weeks at number two on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart, and reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

"Flowers on the Wall"

"Billy Christian"

June 14, 1965

March 13, 1965

Columbia, Nashville

Country

2:19

Columbia 43315

Lew DeWitt

Don Law and Frank Jones

The song won the 1966 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Performance - Group (Vocal or Instrumental).[1]


The Statler Brothers re-recorded the song in 1975 for their first greatest-hits album for Mercury Records, The Best of The Statler Brothers.

"Flowers on the Wall"

"Someone Else's Cadillac"

February 26, 2000

Country

3:29

Mercury

Lew DeWitt

Keith Stegall

The song (its 1975 version) is used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film .[12] In the film, Bruce Willis's character sings along to the line, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" as he is driving.

Pulp Fiction

The song is also referenced in the 1995 film where Bruce Willis's character says he was "working on a nice fat suspension, smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" .

Die Hard with a Vengeance

quotes the song's complete lyrics in his 1981 book Palm Sunday, calling the song "yet another great contemporary poem by the Statler Brothers" and using it to describe "the present condition" of an American man who had recently departed his family. "It is not a poem of escape or rebirth. It is a poem about the end of a man's usefulness", he adds.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is the theme song of the radio series .[13]

Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting

Whitburn, Joel, Top Country Songs: 1944-2005 (2006)

1975 versions on YouTube

Both the 1966 and