Spill the Wine

"Spill the Wine"
Single by Eric Burdon & War
from the album Eric Burdon Declares "War"
B-side"Magic Mountain"
ReleasedMay 1970
Genre
Length4:51 (album version)
3:59 (promo single version)
LabelMGM
Songwriter(s)Charles Miller, Howard E. Scott, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Harold Ray Brown, Thomas "Papa Dee" Allen, Lee Oskar, Eric Burdon
Producer(s)Jerry Goldstein
Eric Burdon & War singles chronology
"Spill the Wine"
(1970)
"Tobacco Road"
(1970)

"Spill the Wine" is the debut single by singer Eric Burdon and the band War, released in May 1970. It was backed by the non-album track "Magic Mountain", and was War's first Billboard chart hit.[5]

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