78 RPM - "Stick" McGhee And His Buddies - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee / Blues Mixture (I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water) - Atlantic - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	"Stick" McGhee And His Buddies
Label:	Atlantic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	873
Date:	Mar 1949
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	12 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$45
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PRICE GUIDE

$45

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	"Stick" McGhee And His Buddies	Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee	McGhee	Rate
B	"Stick" McGhee And His Buddies	Blues Mixture (I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water)	Traditional	Rate

Notes

Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis, piano; Brownie McGhee, guitar; Sticks McGhee, guitar, vocals; Gene Ramey, bass; unknown, drums.
Recorded February 14, 1949, New York, NY.

BB Mar 19, 1949, p. 40 (Advance Race Record Releases)
BB #3 R&B (Best-Selling Retail & Most-Played Juke Box Race Records charts)

First released on 45 RPM in 1967 in the "Classics Revisited" series as 45-873, then again on yellow label reissue in 1972.

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Comments and Reviews


Mike Gann 3rd Mar 2024		The best scenario I can come up with, is that J. Mayo Williams was the owner of the Harlem label and he put his name on the song to receive composer royalties. When Stick McGhee recorded it again for Atlantic, Ahmet Ertegun had his name removed.



RecordDragon 3rd Mar 2024		Any idea why this A-side omits Williams as composer as opposed to the release on 1018?



BigBadBluesMan 10th Apr 2015



BigBadBluesMan 10th Apr 2015



fixbutte 14th Feb 2014		A rocking remake of the same sides that guitarist and singer Granville "Stick" McGhee had already recorded for Harlem Records in 1946. His well-known older brother, Walter "Brownie" McGhee, also played guitar and sang harmonies, the other "Buddies" were Wilbert "Big Chief" Ellis on piano, Gene Ramey on bass, and an unknown drummer. "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee" became the label's first big hit and sold about 200,000 copies until the end of 1949. It never topped the R&B charts but ranked high on the 1949 Year's Top R&B Records (#7 according to retail sales, #3 according to juke box plays), and paved the way for Atlantic's change from a more jazz-oriented label to the most important R&B company of the 1950s and 1960s. McGhee, however, could never repeat this success and died in 1961, at the age of 44, of lung cancer. The story of the Atlantic re-recording has been told on 45cat. A 45 rpm issue of this record, however, was apparently not released before 1967.