John Pemberton Fulton County enacted temperance legislation, Pemberton had to produce a non-alcoholic alternative to his French Wine Coca. Pemberton relied on Atlanta drugstore owner-proprietor Willis E. Venable to test, and help him perfect, the recipe for the beverage, which he formulated by trial and error. With Venable's assistance, Pemberton worked out a set of directions for its preparation. He blended the base syrup with carbonated water by accident when trying to make another glassful of the beverage. Pemberton decided then to sell this as a fountain drink rather than a medicine. Frank Mason Robinson came up with the name "Coca-Cola" for
Dr. John singles chart, eventually reaching #71. In 2003, "Dr. John's Gumbo" was ranked number 404 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. With "Gumbo", Dr. John expanded his career beyond the psychedelic voodoo music and theatrics which had driven his career since he took on the Dr. John persona, although it has always remained an integral part of his music and identity. It was not until 1998's "Anutha Zone" that he again concentrated on this aspect of his music wholly for a full album. "After we cut the new record", he wrote, "I decided I'd