Harold Reid, the bass singer in the long-running country vocal quartet the Statler Brothers, died Friday night at age 80. A post on the group’s website said that Reid “had bravely endur…
was among those mourning Reid’s death. “The one, the only Harold Reid,” she tweeted Sunday. “We will never forget you. So many great memories, and I’ll never forget you giving me my very first Country Music award. Love always, Reba.”
The group cracked the top 10 a couple more times in the 1960s — as with the uniquely titled “You Can’t Have Your Kate and Edith, Too” — but found their next greatest impact in 1970 with a song written by Reid, “Bed of Rose’s.” The punctuation was deliberate, as the song deals with the young narrator’s dalliance with a prostitute named Rose.
The late Harold Reid and Jimmy Fortune of the Statler Brothers pose for a photo at the 10th Annual ACM Honors at Ryman Auditorium, in NashvilleContrary to impressions, there was no one named Statler in the group, which was originally named the Kingsmen and, facing confusion with other acts sharing that name, adopted a new one after seeing the Statler brand on a box of tissues. Thee were brothers, however: Don Reid was their lead singer, with older brother Harold taking the bass parts.
The Statler Brothers traveled with Cash to Folsom Prison for his famous performances there. Although they did not appear on the original hit “At Folsom Prison” LP, when Cash’s album was reissued as a deluxe CD set in 2008, the group’s nearly 40-year-old renditions of “Flowers on the Wall,” “How Great Thou Art” and “You Can’t Have Your Kate and Edith, Too” for a prison audience were finally released to the public.
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