Artist: Stick McGhee
Author: Stick McGhee/J. Mayo Williams
Label: Harlem
Year: 1947

Two years before his Atlantic recording, with his brother Brownie on guitar and second voice. Cut in Petersburg, VA, where Stick was in the army. The song in fact was an army barrack classic ("Drinkin' wine, motherfucker, drinkin' wine"). Harlem was J. Mayo Williams' label, who claimed coauthorship for providing studio facility and for camouflaging that "motherfucker". In 1937 Lovin' Sam Theard & His Swinging Rascals (see also: You Rascal You) cut another Spo-Dee-O-Dee for that same J. Mayo Williams, so that's where he probably got the idea from.

The Harlem version went out of stock the moment it becameg a hit in New Orleans, since DJ Poppa Stoppa pushed it as the tune under one of his station commercials. Wynonie Harris was about to fill the gap, when Ahmed Ertegun cut him short with a new and better Stick McGhee version, situated in New Orleans instead of Petersburg. That became the first hit for his brand new Atlantic label.