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“Spill The Wine” by Eric Burdon & War with Eric Burdon
From the album Eric Burdon Declares "War" (1970) With Eric Burdon
“Spill The Wine” by Eric Burdon & War with Eric Burdon appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1991 and 2022. It was first released in 1970 on the album Eric Burdon Declares "War". Its best result is #263 on the WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,579 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Spill the Wine" was the first single Eric Burdon cut with War, out in May 1970 on MGM and taken from Eric Burdon Declares "War", and it owes its name to a mess: keyboardist Lonnie Jordan spilled wine on a mixing board, and the band spun the accident into a song. The writing credit goes to War's members, Papa Dee Allen, Harold Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Jordan, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar and Howard E. Scott.
It's a loose, nearly five-minute funk ramble with a prominent flute solo, a friend of Burdon's speaking Spanish in the background, and a spoken passage in the middle that the radio edit trimmed away along with a chorus. It went to number 3 on the Hot 100, War's first Billboard hit, with "Magic Mountain", a track found nowhere on the album, riding along on the B-side.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 377 | WNEW-FM | WNEW Firecracker 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 1997 | 716 | 102.3 WBAB | WBAB Top 1,023 Rock and Roll Songs of All Time (1997) | 1023 |
| 2001 | 263 | WFPK | WFPK 2001 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2000 |
| 2002 | 459 | 100.7 WZLX | WZLX Memorial 500 (2002) | 500 |
| 2002 | 631 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2014 | 976 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2020 | 1698 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2021 | 891 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 540 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
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