Today in 1965, the Statler Brothers made their chart debut with “Flowers On The Wall”.

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 Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song was used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film ‘Pulp Fiction’ and as the title theme of the 2001-2002 BBC Radio 4 sitcom ‘Linda Smith’s A Brief History of Timewasting’.

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

The Statler Brothers re-recorded the song in 1975 for their first greatest hits album for Mercury Records, The Best of The Statler Brothers. The song is also featured on Nancy Sinatra’s album Boots (1967).

In 2000, Eric Heatherly brought the classic back to life when he released his version of the song.

Bonus trivia: Despite the name, only two members of the group (Don and Harold Reid) are actual brothers and none has the surname of Statler. The band, in fact, named themselves after a brand of facial tissue they had noticed in a hotel room (they joked that they could have turned out to be the Kleenex Brothers).