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"Bottle of Wine" is a song written and recorded by Tom Paxton, which was also a hit for the band The Fireballs, whose version reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 [1] and #5 in Canada. [2] It also reached #3 in South Africa. [ 3 ]
The group had difficulty competing with the influx of British artists and did not reach the Top 40 again until 1967, with "Bottle of Wine", which was written by Tom Paxton. [1] The Fireballs took "Bottle of Wine" to No. 9 on the Hot 100. Although Gilmer was still a member of the group, the band was billed simply as "The Fireballs" on that single.
Then in 1968, Paxton scored a Top 10 radio hit when The Fireballs recorded his song "Bottle of Wine". In the 1960s, Paxton licensed one of his songs, "My Dog's Bigger than Your Dog", for use in a Ken-L Ration dog food commercial. Not too fazed by the success of some of his songs, Paxton continued writing and performing.
Petty continued to own the String-A-Longs name, and to avoid confusion between the instrumental sound of The Fireballs and that group's current vocal hit "Bottle of Wine," it was decided to reuse the String-A-Longs name for the LP Wide World Hits on Atco in 1968. This is actually the Fireballs performing the music under the String-A-Longs ...
It should only contain pages that are The Fireballs songs or lists of The Fireballs songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Fireballs songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
The Beatles had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100, including "Hey Jude", the number one song of 1968. Gary Puckett & The Union Gap had four songs on the Year-End Hot 100, the most of any artist in 1968. Aretha Franklin had three songs on the Year-End Hot 100. This list is of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1968. [1]
The song had various cover versions released, with Roger Williams' version selling the best. Despite the success of his own records, Petty began construction of his Clovis studio in late 1954. [ 2 ] The new studio was state of the art, estimated to have cost around $100,000 (US$1,134,572 in 2023 dollars [ 3 ] ).
Keith McCormack (October 19, 1940 – April 10, 2015) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter.. McCormack was born in Dalhart, Texas, but was raised in Plainview.He sang and played guitar for the Patio Kids, the Rock 'n' Rollers, the Leen Teens and, finally, the String-A-Longs with Aubrey deCordova and Richard Stephens from 1956 until 1965.