Vintage Wine Top Ten: Drinkin Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee (#10)

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Before I give you the #1 song on my list of blue-eyed favorites (and everyone already knows what that song is), it’s time to pop the cork on this series of favorites with “wine” in the title. This was inspired by a very funny discussion from @DianneN about myLot’s “fix bad word” feature not caring for char/donnay because of the letters between C and the second N. You can be a little too careful with things, as that discussion proved. So let’s drink up to the bad word filter with this first number! #10: Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Jerry Lee Lewis Killer! By The Killer!! And it’s such an appropriate song to begin a countdown that was inspired by the bad word filter. “Spo-Dee-O-Dee” was a four-syllable nonsense word to replace the original Samuel L. Jackson-like lyric. A song that helped pave the way to rock and roll, Jerry Lee’s original rock and roll rendition (in 1966) wasn’t a hit. (By then he’d been banished from rock and roll for his sins [think about the humor in that...the genre that gave us the 13-year-old groupies].) However, he re-recorded the song in 1973 and it was a country hit. That’ll make you drink some wine to figure out. Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Written by Sticks McGhee and J. Mayo Williams Recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis From the album Memphis Beat, 1966 Also from Session, 1973 Half and half!