THE STATLER BROTHERS HAD GRAMMYS, HALL OF FAME HONORS, AND DECADES OF HITS — BUT ONE SONG MADE AN ENTIRE GENERATION REALIZE THEY WEREN’T YOUNG ANYMORE. Everybody remembers “Flowers on the Wall.” Many remember “Do You Remember These,” the song that turned old radios, sock hops, drive-ins, and small-town memories into country music nostalgia. But “The Class of ’57” did something quieter. In 1972, The Statler Brothers sang about the boys and girls who once thought life would stay wide open forever.

6 YEARS AFTER HAROLD REID PASSED AWAY, THE STATLER BROTHERS’ GREATEST INHERITANCE WASN’T LOCKED IN STAUNTON — IT WAS STILL SINGING THROUGH JACK AND DAVIS REID. April 24, 2020. Staunton, Virginia. Harold Reid’s bass voice went silent, and with it, country music lost one of the sounds that made The Statler Brothers impossible to forget. The humor. The harmony. The church-bell depth in his voice. The kind of music that didn’t need noise to fill a room. But Harold’s legacy did not stop at an old rec