Wright Brothers Band

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The Wright Brothers Band, formerly known as the Wright Brothers Overland Stage Company, formed in 1972, is an Indiana based music group. They perform songs from the 1920s to the present day, and can cover bluegrass, pop standards, country, gospel, and even Aerosmith rock standards. The band briefly gained national attention with their patriotic song "Made in the U.S.A." which celebrated companies that continued to manufacture their products in the United States. They performed on the Grand Ole Opry, The Today Show and appeared 12 times on Nashville Now. Signed with Warner Bros. and Mercury records in the eighties, the Wright Brothers had nine singles reach Billboard's Hot 100 Chart. The band also recorded the soundtrack ("Jim Dandy To The Rescue" and "I Can't Help Fallin' In Love") and made a live appearance in the 1987 Goldie Hawn movie Overboard.

Albums included Cornfield Cowboys, Memorabilia Box, Third Phonograph Album, Made in the U.S.A., Easy Street, Wright Brothers (cassette), Solo Flight (cassette), The American Way, A Tribute to America's Music, The Lost Nashville Sessions, and Overboard. The first three albums were re-released in a vinyl box set ("Anthology") and later in a CD box set.

[edit] Trivia

Shortly after starting their band, the group posed for a photo shoot on a real stagecoach that was incorrectly hitched to live horses. The horses started running down a path that was not suited for stagecoach travel, leading to a crash that destroyed the stagecoach and left some members with minor injuries. The band now humorously refers to the incident as "A Stagecoach Catastrophe of Splendifferous Phenomena."