The Statler Brothers - Flowers on the Wall

[RandySF]

[Moostache]

1. Testament to the power of music...

Like many Tarantino movie scenes, the music he chooses often becomes cemented in the minds of the viewer as if it were intended to be used that way all along...

This song was used in Pulp Fiction in the scene where Butch (Bruce Willis) runs across and then OVER Marcelous (Ving Rhames) at an intersection and right before they meet Zed and the Gimp...

Just as "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" (Uma Thurman dancing before OD scene) and "Misirlou" (Opening credits) and others like the use of Stealer's Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" (Reservoir Dogs most memorable scene), certain songs just become associated with things in a way that cannot be unassociated later...he also uses music in memorable scenes that lead into key story events and only later is it clear that a critical moment in the film experience was happening.

Anywho...thanks for allowing me the chance to take my mind off of reality for a few, it helped!

[Docreed2003]

3. Quentin has always had a way with music in his films

"Once upon a time in Hollywood" is no exception!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. One of my favorite assorted-works movie soundtracks of all time.

I actually listened to the soundtrack before I saw the movie and it enhanced my appreciation of the film itself.

Although I was a little confused as to the disjointed narrative of the movie--for a while there, I thought the "pigs are a filithy animal" monologue was a deleted scene.

[mantis49]

10. This song pre-dated Pulp Fiction by 28 years.

Just FYI.

I remember it from when I was a child, though I didn't understand it really. It seemed a happy tune to me then.

[John1956PA]

2. Thanks for posting! This is one of my favorites.

I remember when this song was released. The melody is fun to listen to, and the lyrics are clever. Of course, one has to feel feel sadness for anyone who is in the emotional straits the narrator is experiencing.

[Zambero]

4. Don't plan to take up smoking or solitaire, however...

watching old Captain Kangaroo reruns has a certain appeal!

[Archae]

6. I've been a fan of the Statlers for decades.

They had a TV show for awhile, and the reruns are on RFD-TV.

Good to say, all but Lew Dewitt are still surviving, Lew DeWitt had to quit due to poor health, that eventually killed him.

Jimmy Fortune replaced Lew, and has written many of their biggest hits.

[Brainfodder]

7. Me too, but I only discovered them because of Greatest Hits commercials when I was a tween?

...and the class of all us is just part of history!

[Archae]

8. "Class Of 57!"

I love this one tune they did...

[Brainfodder]

9. Yup, don't even need to play it.

Penny loafers!

[Cartoonist]

11. Statler Brothers joke

I forget where I heard it.

Takes place in the south. (stereotype)

Interviewer: If you could have dinner with anyone in the world from any era in time, which of the Statler Brothers would it be?