![]() ![]() It was a peaceful, welcoming neighborhood. We moved into a lovely, older two-story, brick home that occupied the corner of North Coalter and Taylor Streets. Greg still remembers, and asked me about it after hearing of Harold’s death.īrenda and I relocated to Staunton, Virginia in 1993. Harold reached down and tousled Greg’s blond hair and said, “Hi, Buddy!” Midway into the parade, the Statler Brothers’ float turned the corner of the parade route and stopped directly in front of us. We even traveled to Staunton on the Fourth of July celebration to watch the parade and concert. He and I would sit in our old Cutlass in the driveway and sing along with the Statlers’ 8-track tapes. Once I became a fan of the Statler Brothers, son Greg, six years old at the time, soon followed. Harold Reid was the bass singer for the Statler Brothers who hit that low note. The song is about a guy whose girlfriend had left him, and he is in a bad spot, counting flowers on the wall and playing solitaire with a deck that’s missing a card. Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kangaroo …”Īs Cindy Correll once noted, “Every time the song played, we all couldn’t wait to sing the low bass (“Kang”) Captain Kangaroo” in “Flowers on the Wall” by the Statler Brothers. Playin’ solitaire till dawn, with a deck of fifty-one, Despite its offbeat lyrics, the tune was catchy, and as Famous Hook once said on American Bandstand, “It’s easy to dance to.” It was different from anything I’d ever heard. In 1966, my senior year in high school, a song came on the jukebox that caught my attention. If you hadn’t driven around the Mel-O-Dee a dozen times during the evening, you weren’t ready to go home. Lewis Fuller, the popular drive-in was the main destination for “cruising” in the 1960s. The Mel-O-Dee restaurant once sat where Frisch’s now sits on Rombach Avenue. ![]()
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