Bobby Osborn & His Classic III, Odessa

You get a nickel

I'll get a dime
We'll go out
and buy some wine

If you could figure out a couple of chords and hit a single string break you could master "Wine Wine Wine", 1961's call to guzzle by Dallas's Nightcaps. And dozens of combos did just that. But few ripped through it quite as well as Odessa's Bobby Osborn.




















Like 100s of others who came before and after, Bobby Osborn barely rates mention as a footnote. His drummer was Carl Bunch who got frostbite playing with Buddy Holly on the Winter Dance Party Tour. His producer was Sonley Roush, the man who placed "Last Kiss" with San Angelo's Cavaliers.

But Bobby...

There were at the very least two releases on Roush's short-lived Knickerbocker label. The first was a Buddy Holly-styled original that was leased to Dot. In 1963 Bobby and His Classic III recorded this ripping cop of "Wine Wine Wine" at Ben Hall's Big Spring studio. With Roush's attention on J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers, Ben and the Classics Four would remake Dale Hawkins' classic "Susie Q" for Gaylo in the next year according to the RCS site. This would reappear on the Philadeliphia-based Arlen label as by Bobby Osburn.

And then...

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Head over to The Devil's Music for the Nightcap original...