One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

"One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer"
Single by Amos Milburn
B-side"What Can I Do?"
ReleasedAugust 1953 (1953-08)
RecordedJune 30, 1953
StudioAudio-Video Recording, New York City
GenreBlues
Length2:50
LabelAladdin
Songwriter(s)Rudy Toombs
Amos Milburn singles chronology
"Let Me Go Home Whiskey"
(1953)
"One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer"
(1953)
"Good Good Whiskey"
(1953)

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that placed in the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart.[1] Other artists released popular recordings of the song, including John Lee Hooker in 1966 and George Thorogood in 1977.

  1. ^ Whitburn 1988, p. 290.