Like a lot of Southern kids, I grew up watching “Hee Haw” and other country music shows on Saturdays, which is where I got my first exposure to not just Minnie Pearl, Grandpa Jones and Junior Samples, but to legends of country music as well as a few artists just starting out. I’m pretty sure it’s where I first heard The Statler Brothers. They were a favorite of our family, and yes, we had the eight-track tapes to prove it.

“Flowers on the Wall” is probably my favorite Statler Brothers song, released before I was even born. I couldn’t find them singing it on “Hee Haw,” but enjoy this version from the Johnny Cash tour with the original lineup (Lew Dewitt was replaced by Jimmy Fortune in the early 1980s due to illness).

I remembered how much I loved this song when I came across a really nicely done version by Joshua Lee Turner and friends. I was left with one question, though: Do these people even know who Captain Kangaroo was?