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guitarists Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley's guitarist Sonny -Scottie, Moore, and Glen Campbell. Irving Feld abandoned his record company and became a promoter. It was during his Winter Party Dance Party tour in 1959 that Richie Valens, the Big Bopper, and Buddy Holly were killed in an airplane crash. Here is:

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One of the most important rhythm 'n' blues record companies of the 1950s and 1960s was Atlantic, founded in 1947 by Ahmet Krtegun, the son of the former Turkish Ambassador to the United States, and a dentist, Herb Abramson. By 1949, the small sales of their jazz releases and the lack of new recordings caused by the musicians' strike had the company near bankruptcy when Ertegun received a call from his New Orleans distributor, seeking a label called Harlem Records. That company had a local hit in New Orleans, heavily plugged by white disc jockey Poppa Stoppa. The artitists were Stick McGhee and his Buddies. Ertegun asked Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, a well known blues guitarist, if he knew Stick McGhee. "Sure," McGhee told him "He's my brother Granville." The McGhees were from Kingsport, Tennessee.

Stick McChee claimed the song originated in an Army camp in Petersburg, Virginia, where recruits sang "Drinking' wine, mother-fucker, drinkin' wine." but he remebered "You couldn't say bed on a record, let alone mother-fucker."²²

Atlantic signed Stick McGhee, paying him a $300 advance, and accompanied by his brother, he re-recorded "Drinkin' Wine Spo-bee-o-Dee" in early 1949. Like John Lee Hooker, McGhee mentions a