Stick McGhee

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Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Things Have Changed 00:00 Tools
My Baby's Gone 00:00 Tools
Tall Pretty Woman 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-De-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-Dee 00:00 Tools
One Monkey Don't Stop The Show 00:00 Tools
Jungle Juice 00:00 Tools
Let's Do It 00:00 Tools
Baby Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee 00:00 Tools
Drank up All the Wine Last Night 00:00 Tools
Venus 00:00 Tools
Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee) 00:00 Tools
Southern Menu 00:00 Tools
Head Happy With Wine 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Waltz Blues 00:00 Tools
Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Drinking Wine 00:00 Tools
Meet You In The Morning 00:00 Tools
Whiskey Women And Loaded Dice 00:00 Tools
Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter 00:00 Tools
Help Me Baby 00:00 Tools
Six To Eight 00:00 Tools
Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-Oh-Dee) 00:00 Tools
Venus Blues 00:00 Tools
Double Crossin' Liquor 00:00 Tools
House Warmin' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Dealin' From The Bottom 00:00 Tools
Oh What A Face 00:00 Tools
Ease My Worried Mind 00:00 Tools
Sad, Bad, Glad 00:00 Tools
The Wiggle Wiggle Woo 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Road Blues 00:00 Tools
Travelin' On 00:00 Tools
Blue Barrelhouse 00:00 Tools
Blues Mixture 00:00 Tools
I'm Doin' All This Time (And You Put Me Down) 00:00 Tools
Blues In My Heart & Tears In My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Drinkin'Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spoo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
I'll Always Remember 00:00 Tools
Jail House Blues 00:00 Tools
She's Gone Rock Away Blues 00:00 Tools
My Baby's Comin' Back 00:00 Tools
You Gotta Have Something On The Ball 00:00 Tools
Little Things We Used To Do 00:00 Tools
Confused 00:00 Tools
Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice 00:00 Tools
Couble Crossin' Liquor 00:00 Tools
Money Fever 00:00 Tools
It Hurts Me Too 00:00 Tools
Sleep In Job 00:00 Tools
Don't Mistake Me 00:00 Tools
Sweet Baby Blues 00:00 Tools
Little Things We UsedTo DO 00:00 Tools
New Found Love 00:00 Tools
Contact Me 00:00 Tools
Bad Nerves 00:00 Tools
Four O'Clock In The Morning 00:00 Tools
I Was Fooled 00:00 Tools
No More Reveille 00:00 Tools
The Wiggle Waggle Woo 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine 00:00 Tools
One Monkey Don't Stop The Snow 00:00 Tools
Sweet Lover 00:00 Tools
My Little Rose 00:00 Tools
Blue And Brokenhearted 00:00 Tools
Wee Wee Hours Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Brownie's New Worried Life Blues 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee O Dee 00:00 Tools
My Baby Gone Home 00:00 Tools
Blue And Broken 00:00 Tools
Wee Wee Hours Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Drinkin wine Spo-dee-O-dee 00:00 Tools
Drank Up All The Wine Last Night 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spa-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Whiskey, Women & Loaded Dice 00:00 Tools
Whiskey Women & Loaded Dice 00:00 Tools
Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee (1947 Version) 00:00 Tools
Sad Bad Glad 00:00 Tools
whiskey, women, and loaded dice 00:00 Tools
Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Drinking Wine 00:00 Tools
Dinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Drink Of Wine, Mop Mop 00:00 Tools
24 - Stick McGhee & His Buddies - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show 00:00 Tools
Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
Housewarmin' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee (02-14-49) 00:00 Tools
I'm Doing All This Time 00:00 Tools
Wiggle Waggle Woo 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Do 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Alt. Take 00:00 Tools
Drank Up All The Wine 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Wine,Spo-Dee-O-Dee 00:00 Tools
You Gotta Have Something On Te Ball 00:00 Tools
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Stick (or Sticks) McGhee (Granville Henry McGhee, March 23, 1917 – August 15, 1961) was an African-American jump blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his rhythm & blues song, "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee". He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and Granville received his nickname during the early years, when he was pushing his older brother, Brownie McGhee, who was stricken with polio, in a wagon with a stick. Granville began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old. After his freshmen year, Granville dropped out of high school and worked with his father at Eastman Kodak. In 1940, Granville quit his job and moved to Portsmouth, Virginia, and then he relocated to New York. There he entered into the military service in 1942 and served in the Army during World War II. In 1946, Granville was discharged and settled in New York. In the military, Granville often played his guitar. One of the songs, that McGhee was best known for, was "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee". The original lyrics of the song were as follows: Drinkin’ that mess is our delight, And when we get drunk, start fightin’ all night. Knockin’ out windows and learnin’ down doors, Drinkin’ half-gallons and callin’ for more. Drinkin’ wine motherfucker, drinkin’ wine! Goddam! Drinkin’ wine motherfucker, drinkin’ wine! Goddam! Drinkin’ wine motherfucker, drinkin’ wine! Goddam! Pass that bottle to me! This song was one of the earliest prototypical rock and roll songs. 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 later, 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 Blues", "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. 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". However, he was unable to make money out of his records so he left King to record for Savoy in 1955, but retired from the music industry in 1960 because he lost his passion for music. McGhee died in The Bronx, New York, on August 15, 1961 of lung cancer, at the age of forty-four, and he left his old guitar to Brownie's son before he died. Stick McGhee is also on last.fm as Sticks McGhee Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.