Jerry Lee Lewis : DRINKIN' WINE, SPO-DEE-O-DEE, DRINKIN' WINE

Stick McGhee recorded DRINKIN' WINE, SPO-DEE-O-DEE, DRINKIN' WINE, a jump blues styled-song, in January 1947 in New Orleans for Harlem Records, a label that went out of business the following year.

A distributor from New Orleans called Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records to find out if he could supply 5,000 copies of the song. Ahmet couldn't, but offered to make an exact copy of the single. He first had to find someone to sing it and remembered Brownie McGhee whom Ahmet had met in his "endless trips to Harlem. I called him up and he said he could do it, but as it happened, his brother Stick was staying with him, so he might as well remake his own record."

The song was recorded that same night and went on to sell 400,000 copies. It became an early hit for Atlantic Records, reaching number two on the US R&B charts.

Twenty-five years later, the song was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis, whose version reached number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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