Question

post a favourite song that mentions a drink...

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Oh Tink -- the full version???

I got through two bottles once, it was the panhandle of Golden Gate Park summer 1967, and we were drinking Olde English 800 Malt Liquor -- which I looked up recently and apparently by connoisseurs it is considered really bad beer, but I liked it!

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Oh my... you drank TWO 22-oz bottles of Olde English?

Yes, the full version, but I only listened to the first few seconds and then skipped to the last two or three bottles.

Answer 3

"Scotch & Soda"

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Oh Jan, ALL those years ago I had their album with this song on it, I loved it!

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Me too.  I actually got to see them perform in person way back when. 

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LONG time ago, Jan

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Answer 5

I've always liked this one.....

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I like it too Freeranger, never knew he sang that.

Answer 6

Hi SFA, well I was about to go for Gale Garnett here, her 1964 song BRANDY LEAVE ME ALONE...I loved it, way back then.

...and searching it out, it seems she got it from a South African folk song, recorded 1939 by Josef Marais, where the song could also be called BRANDEWYN:

BUT THEN I was thinking about the first drinking songs I loved, and that goes back to about 1949 and RYE WHISKEY. I could not find the original one I listened to back then, but here is Tex Ritter in 1966 and his version is pretty good too! Be sure to hang in there for the verse about "Whiskey rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry, if a tree don't fall on me, I'll live till I die."

And the verse I loved most was, "If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck, I'd dive to the bottom and never come *HIC* (I meant to say *up*)."

Oh, and then there was another one I liked back in 1949, "Shoot the likker to me John Boy, shoot the likker here and don't be coy." Don't know what happened to those old 78 RPM records, I loved them when I was five years old!

Okay 'nuff I guess.

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I wonder if Tex was really drunk when he performed that? If not, he looks as if he had a lot of practice.

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Tink I looked up Tex Ritter on Wikipedia...wondering if you knew of him, he died 1974 (1905-1974) which according to my calculations would be about the time you were born. He was certainly an important part of my childhood, with his singing and acting, country music of course!

What I did not know is that he was John Ritter's father (THREE'S COMPANY, wasn't it?), who also died young (to me, 68 is very young, and the son was only in his 50's, both had heart/vascular condition).

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I did hear of Tex Ritter, and some of those other cowboys from old B westerns, like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy. And no, I didn't know Tex Ritter's son played Jack on Three's Company.

And I was born in 1980.

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See how educational is this website SOLVED? And I am glad your generation got in on those old cowboys, what would childhood be without Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and his palomino horse Trigger, CERTAINLY childhood successful requires Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy!

I don't suppose you knew of Sheriff Tex, he was more of a Seattle phenomenon I think? I doubt he ever got to the Eastern Seaboard...he had a children's show every afternoon for many years. And on Lake Washington (beside Seattle) they had the hydroplane races every year back then, and one very famous, very fast and beloved boat was named SLOW MOTION. Well Sheriff Tex had a Bassett hound on his TV show who slept all the time so Sheriff Tex named him NoMo, a takeoff on the boat! 

Sheriff Tex played the hootenanny (big and fitted out with horns whistles squawks of various kinds), and used to come around to little backwater towns and play for dances in the grange halls.