"Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee" is a jump blues song written by Stick McGhee and J. Mayo Williams in 1949 and originally recorded by "Sticks” McGhee & His Buddies.
It became an early hit for Atlantic Records, reaching #2 on the US R&B charts.
[3] A distributor from New Orleans called Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records to find out if the firm could supply 5,000 copies of the song.
He first had to find someone to sing it and remembered Brownie McGhee whom Ertegun 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."