Flowers on the Wall

"Flowers on the Wall"
Single by The Statler Brothers
from the album Flowers on the Wall
B-side	Billy Christian
Released	September 1965 (U.S.)
Format	7"
Recorded	March 13, 1965
Genre	Country
Length	2:19
Label	Columbia 43315
Writer(s)	Lew DeWitt
Producer	Don Law and Frank Jones
The Statler Brothers singles chronology
"Flowers on the Wall" (1965) "The Right One" (1966)

"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 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.

Chart positions

Chart (1965)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Top Singles	1
New Zealand Singles Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	4
U.K. Singles Chart	38

Eric Heatherly version

"Flowers on the Wall"
Single by Eric Heatherly
from the album Swimming in Champagne
B-side	"Someone Else's Cadillac"
Released	2000
Format	CD single
Genre	Country
Length	3:29
Label	Mercury
Writer(s)	Lew DeWitt
Producer	Keith Stegall
Eric Heatherly singles chronology
"Flowers on the Wall" (2000) "Swimming in Champagne" (2000)

Eric Heatherly recorded the song in 2000 on his debut album, Swimming In Champagne. Also released as his debut single, Heatherly's rendition reached No. 6 on the Hot Country Songs charts and No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Chart positions

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	50
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	3

In popular culture

The song is used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. Bruce Willis's character sings along to the line, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo." In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, when Willis's character John McClane is asked what he has done during his suspension from the police force, he replies with the same line.

The song was frequently employed as bumper music on the syndicated radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, particularly in the earlier days when Art Bell was the host.

References

Sources

• Whitburn, Joel, "Top Country Songs: 1944-2005," 2006.