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Pastimes : Come Play With Me - 'Name That Tune' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (10505)	10/28/2002 2:36:19 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10709

Statler Brothers Hold Teary Farewell SALEM, Va. (AP) - Legend has it that the Statler Brothers got their name from a box of tissues. That seemed only fitting after their final concert Saturday night: Much of the audience was bathed in tears. After 38 years of touring, the down-home boys from Staunton are packing up and retiring from the road to spend more time with their families. "They are just like the rest of us, they're getting older," said Elsa Brinkley, 96, one of the nearly 7,000 mostly gray-haired fans who attended the sold-out farewell concert at the Salem Civic Center. "We saw them when they started and we'll see them when they finish." Brinkley has watched the group move from concerts at church halls and state fairs to recording more than 50 albums. As the Brothers settled into their routine, they played perennial hits, including "Class of '57" and "Flowers on the Wall." They closed with the first song they ever sang together, "Amazing Grace." According to one popular story, band member Harold Reid came up with the quartet's name after spotting a box of Statler Tissues in a hotel room. "We might have been called the Kleenex Brothers," Reid has often said.