STICKS McGHEE DOUBLE CROSSIN LIQUOR RARE 1955 KING 45
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Sticks McGhee, Double Crossin' Liquor / Six to Eight
KING 4783, 1955
Record: VG+
Granville Henry McGhee, also known as Stick (or Sticks) McGhee (March 23, 1917 – August 15, 1961) was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was an American guitarist best known for his blues song, "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee".
This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs, and was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis and Mike Bloomfield's Electric Flag (as "Wine"). The song lent its name to the alcoholic fruit drink, spodi. In 1946, Granville and Brownie McGhee collaborated and modified the song into a clean cut version for Harlem Records. The song was released a year later in January 1947 at the price of 49 cents. The song did not get much airplay time until two years after when Granville recreated the song for Atlantic Records. As a result, it rose to Number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart.
His songs attracted countless covers over the years. The first cover was by Lionel Hampton featuring Sonny Parker, then Wynonie Harris, and lastly, Loy Gordon & His Pleasant Valley Boys with their hillbilly-bop rendition. His song “Drinkin’ Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee” maintained its popularity throughout the 1950s by various artists, including Malcolm Yelvington in 1954, Johnny Burnette in 1957, and Jerry Lee Lewis in 1959.
McGhee continued to make records for Atlantic and created popular songs such as “Tennessee Waltz,” “Drank Up All the Wine Last Night,” “Venus Blues” “Let’s Do It,” and “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show” but his music career overall was not successful.[2] McGhee moved from Atlantic to Essex to create a record called “My Little Rose”. The record failed so he moved to King in 1953. There he recorded a number of rock and roll songs such a “Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice," "Head Happy With Wine," "Jungle Juice," "Six to Eight," "Double Crossin' Liquor,” “Dealin’ from the Bottom,” and “Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter”.[2] However, he was unable to make money out of his records so he left King to record for Savoy in 1955, but soon retired from the music industry 1960 because he lost his passion for music.
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