Spill the Wine

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Spill the Wine (German: Vergieß den Wein ) is a song by Eric Burdon and War from 1970.

Placements

The song was released as a single in the spring of 1970 and was the group's first Billboard Hot 100 hit. The song made it to number 3 on the chart list in the United States , Canada and Australia . It was ranked 15th in the Netherlands and 28th in Germany .

Content and music

The song is one of the highlights of Eric Burdon's artistic oeuvre. The song is mostly spoken in a somewhat amused voice and is about a man who falls asleep on the grass and begins to dream that he is the star of a Hollywood film. The background is a rhythmic, almost hypnotic Latino funk. The dream slips into a mystical-erotic scenario in which a woman approaches the dreamer and asks him: Spill the wine, take that pearl .

Cover versions

The song has been covered a few times. The most famous recording was made by The Isley Brothers for their album Givin 'It Back . Other well-known recordings are from The B-Side Players , Michael Hutchence , The Dream Syndicate , Freaked Out Flower Children and others.

In 1996 the song was remixed by Junior Vasquez and released as a single. Lonnie Jordan named Eric Burdon the first Latin rapper in pop music in a 2008 interview

use

Spill the Wine was used in the films Boogie Nights , Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and Against Every Rule . The song was also sung in a TV episode of The Prince of Bel Air .

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