Flowers on the Wall - wikipedia 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 Songwriter ( s ) Lew DeWitt Producer ( s ) Don Law and Frank Jones The Statler Brothers singles chronology `` Flowers on the Wall '' ( 1965 ) `` The Right One '' ( 1966 ) `` Flowers on the Wall '' ( 1965 ) `` The Right One '' ( 1966 ) `` Flowers on the Wall '' is a song made famous by the 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. 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 ). Contents 1 Chart performance 2 Eric Heatherly version 2.1 Chart positions 2.1. 1 Year - end charts 3 In popular culture 4 References Chart performance Chart ( 1965 - 66 ) Peak position Canada RPM Top Singles New Zealand Singles Chart US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) US Billboard Hot 100 UK 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 February 26, 2000 Format CD single Genre Country Length 3 : 29 Label Mercury Songwriter ( s ) Lew DeWitt Producer ( s ) Keith Stegall Eric Heatherly singles chronology `` Flowers on the Wall '' ( 2000 ) `` Swimming in Champagne '' ( 2000 ) `` 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 Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) US Billboard Hot 100 50 US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) 6 Year - end charts Chart ( 2000 ) Position US Country Songs ( Billboard ) 30 In popular culture The song ( its 1975 version ) is used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. In the film, Bruce Willis 's character sings along to the line, `` smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo '' as he is driving. In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, when Willis 's character John McClane is describing his suspension from the police force, he says he was `` smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo. '' 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. In a publicly released video, Dylan Klebold, one of the two teens who committed the Columbine High School Massacre, was filmed by a friend while driving in his car at some point prior to the shooting. They were both listening to `` Flowers on the Wall '' playing on the radio, singing along to the song and mocking it. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes the song 's complete lyrics in his 1981 book Palm Sunday calling the song `` yet another great contemporary poem by the Statler Brothers '' and using it to describe `` the present condition '' of an American man who had recently departed his family. `` It is not a poem of escape or rebirth. It is a poem about the end of a man 's usefulness, '' he adds. The Muppets have a YouTube viral video parodying the song in which a band of rats, The Ratler Brothers, sing the song while Beaker struggles with insomnia after being the subject of an experiment that involved consuming a large amount of coffee. Considering the considerable children 's interest in the franchise, the line in the chorus `` smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo '' is changed to other pointless activities. Nancy Sinatra covered the song for her album Boots An instrumental version of the song was used in the New Zealand TV programme A Dog 's Show. References Notes Jump up ^ RPM Top Singles, March 1, 1966 Jump up ^ `` The Statler Brothers -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot Country Songs for The Statler Brothers. Jump up ^ `` The Statler Brothers -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot 100 for The Statler Brothers. Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Country Tracks : Issue 7185. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 10, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Eric Heatherly -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot 100 for Eric Heatherly. Jump up ^ `` Eric Heatherly -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot Country Songs for Eric Heatherly. Jump up ^ `` Best of 2000 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2000. Retrieved August 15, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Surf Music and Seventies Soul : The Songs of ' Pulp Fiction ' ''. Rolling Stone magazine. Retrieved 7 July 2014. Jump up ^ NZ On Screen : A Dog 's Show - 1981 final Bibliography Whitburn, Joel, Top Country Songs : 1944 - 2005 ( 2006 ) The Statler Brothers Phil Balsley Lew DeWitt Jimmy Fortune Don Reid Harold Reid Studio albums Flowers on the Wall Sing the Big Hits How Great Thou Art Bed of Rose 's Pictures of Moments to Remember Short Stories Entertainers... On and Off the Record Christmas Card The Originals 10th Anniversary Years Ago The Legend Goes On Today Atlanta Blue Pardners in Rhyme Four for the Show Notable singles `` I Still Miss Someone '' `` Flowers on the Wall '' `` Oh Happy Day '' `` Bed of Rose 's '' `` Do You Remember These '' `` The Class of ' 57 '' `` I 'll Go to My Grave Loving You '' `` How Great Thou Art '' `` Do You Know You Are My Sunshine '' `` Who Am I to Say '' `` How to Be a Country Star '' `` Nothing as Original as You '' `` Charlotte 's Web '' `` Do n't Wait on Me '' `` Years Ago '' `` You 'll Be Back ( Every Night in My Dreams ) '' `` Whatever '' `` A Child of the Fifties '' `` ( Oh Baby Mine ) I Get So Lonely '' `` Guilty '' `` Elizabeth '' `` Atlanta Blue '' `` One Takes the Blame '' `` My Only Love '' `` Hello Mary Lou '' `` Too Much on My Heart '' `` Sweeter and Sweeter '' `` Count On Me '' `` Only You '' `` Forever '' `` I 'll Be the One '' `` The Best I Know How '' `` Let 's Get Started If We 're Gonna Break My Heart '' `` More Than a Name on a Wall '' Related articles Discography Columbia Records Mercury Records Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flowers_on_the_Wall&oldid=801700642 '' Categories : 1966 singles 2000 singles The Statler Brothers songs Eric Heatherly songs Songs about loneliness Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall RPM Top Singles number - one singles Columbia Records singles Mercury Records singles Songs written by Lew DeWitt 1965 songs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Billboardhot100 Singlechart usages for Canadacountry Singlechart called without artist Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français Tiếng Việt Edit links This page was last edited on 21 September 2017, at 08 : 47. 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Question: who originally sang counting flowers on the wall
Answer: The Statler Brothers