Do we remember these?

John730D · Jan 10, 2013

Statler Brothers.
I Remember

Dick2 · Jan 10, 2013

SweetFeet · Jan 10, 2013

john730D,

Thanks for posting. Statlers are always good.

Now I know what "cigar bands" and "Dixie cup tops" are. Some to the other things; I knew what they were from listening to my parents talk.

doubleN · Jan 10, 2013

I'll be 70 in March so I sure do "remember these."

And I also know that the Statlers are the greatest!

Thanks!

earlschieb · Jan 10, 2013

Sure do! That CD is in my garage CD player, it don't come out except for when I put in my O' Brother Where Art Thou CD.

BushogPapa · Jan 10, 2013

I watched a show on WRFD the other day with Johnny Cash, in one of his Gospel Shows and the "Statlers were singing behind him (Young Statlers)..!!
Not sure they even used the "Statler" name at that time..

Ron..

JerryS · Jan 10, 2013

Yes, I remember these, and virtually everything Pete Black has posted. However, in the Statler Bros. song, one thing I'm not certain of: "cigarette loads". Was this an explosive device, or just something to make the cig taste bad? Ir am I way off base?

John730D · Jan 10, 2013

Yep, end of cigarette would blow off. Funny as H*ll unless it was you!!!

Mike (WA) · Jan 10, 2013

It was an explosive. Push it down into the end of the cigarette, far enough so it wouldn't explode until the second puff or so. Would blow the cigarette apart. Not enough to cause serious personal injury, although probably enough to get you sued today.

We did it to Roger Heinselman in high school- he was kind of a dufus, and always went a across the street for a smoke at noon. He thought it was a defect in the cigarette- "It just went Bang! Must have been an air pocket or somethin."

PJH · Jan 10, 2013

Good song! A friend and I played that song (and some more) for a local couples 60th wedding anniversary party a couple of years ago. It's a fun song - keeps changing keys, but that made it interesting.

PJH · Jan 10, 2013

Yeah Mike - those loads were popular, but almost certain to cause a fight. Even if the joker was long gone, the victim was gonna blame SOMEBODY nearby when it went off. It was hard to keep from laughing, and I had to defend myself a couple times, not that I didn't deserve some head bumps for times when I WAS guilty and didn't get caught, ha.

uncle henry · Jan 10, 2013

yes i do my great grandfather had alot of their cassette tapes which i have now

willie in mn · Jan 10, 2013

Speaking of taste bad. There was always one guy in every group that smoked "OP's". Other people's cigs, never bought his own. The cure was to load one up with chopped rubber bands, fingernail clippings, sawdust from the pencil sharpener, anything else around. Keep that one upside down in your pack if you smoked filters, otherwise in an empty pack, ready to offer when he came around begging.
Willie

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