Play the Jukebox: Little Old Wine Drinker Me

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Oh, boy, is this one going to be fun. Today our jukebox plays another country song…but you think the singer isn’t country. Well, you’re right. But not really. Confused? Me too. Let’s sing with the jukebox. Little Old Wine Drinker Me - Dean Martin He may not have been the best-known or most popular member of the Rat Pack, but Dean Martin was certainly the most musically versatile. Would you ever think of Sinatra doing a country album? Ha, Dean did at least five of them. Must have been singing western songs in that John Wayne movie he made (Rio Bravo). This was indeed a country song (if you can’t tell by the title ). The first recording of the song was by country singer Charlie Walker (best known for “Pick Me Up on Your Way Down” and known to people who’ve seen the Patsy Cline biopic Sweet Dreams as the man who played Hawkshaw Hawkins). Robert Mitchum, the actor and singer (he had a big hit with “The Ballad of Thunder Road”), also recorded it before Martin got around to it. Martin’s version was a modest pop hit (Mitchum’s version was a top ten country hit but flopped on the pop chart). Martin could sing just about anything he put his mind to. A country song about drinking one’s troubles away was right up his alley. Little Old Wine Drinker Me Written by Snuff Garrett, Hank Mills, and Dick Jennings Recorded by Dean Martin From Welcome to My World, 1967 JUKEBOX LYRICS: I’ll ask the man behind the bar for the jukebox