Demon Drink

Wander in to the Demon Drink Tavern, where each barfly has a 78-RPM anecdote of alcohol. We follow the social ills of drink giving rise to the temperance movement, prohibition, and finally right back where we started with the repeal of prohibition.

1 - Sittin' Here Drinking - Earl Gaines – 1952

2 - Drinking Ink Splink - Andrew Tibbs with Dave Young's Orchestra – 1947

3 - When I Been Drinking - Rosetta Howard with the Big Three Trio - 1947

4 - Hangover Square - Ray McKinley and his Orchestra – 1946

5 - Bad, Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn and his Aladdin Chickenshackers - 1950

6 - Drinking Blues - Wynonie Harris – 1952

7 - Let Me Go Home, Whiskey - Amos Milburn and his Aladdin Chickenshackers - 1952

8 - Moon with a Hangover - Hal Kemp and his Orchestra – 1935

9 - Molly and the Baby, Don't You Know (Prohibition Song) - Homer Rodeheaver - 1916

10 - Please Daddy Don't Drink No More - Cecil Campbell's Tennessee Ramblers - 1948

11 - I Know Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well - Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats – 1945

12 - Whiskey Is the Devil - The Bailes Brothers – 1947

13 - Please Don't Sell My Pappy No More Rum - Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats – 1938

14 - Prohibition Blues - Nora Bayes – 1919

15 - How Are You Goin' to Wet Your Whistle? (When the Whole Darn World Goes Dry) - Billy Murray – 1919

16 - Blues without Booze - Bob Merrell and his Orchestra – 1947

17 - Temperance is Coming - Arthur Fields and his Trio – 1930

Hour Two:

18 - Lost Weekend - The Screen Guild Theater – 1946

19 - The Big Guilt - Dragnet – 1952

20 - Whiskey Head Woman - Tommy McClennan - 1939

21 - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well - Wynonie "Mr. Blues" Harris with Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra – 1944