Swimming in Champagne

Swimming in Champagne is the debut album of American country music artist Eric Heatherly. It features a cover of "Flowers on the Wall", originally recorded by The Statler Brothers in 1965. Heatherly's cover was released as the album's lead-off single, reaching a peak of #6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and #50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second and third singles from this album were the title track and "Wrong Five O'Clock", which respectively reached #46 and #32 on the country charts.

Track listing

1. "Someone Else's Cadillac" (Eric Heatherly, Cris Moore, Ed Hill) - 4:12
2. "I Just Break 'Em" (Heatherly, Tim Schumacher) - 3:59
3. "Didn't Mean a Thing" (Heatherly, Christopher Ward) - 5:01
4. "One Night" (Heatherly, Michael Hunter Ochs) - 4:06
5. "Why Don'tcha" (Heatherly, Richard E. Carpenter, Ochs) - 4:03
6. "Flowers on the Wall" (Lew DeWitt) - 3:29
7. "Let Me" (Heatherly, John Sieger) - 3:57
8. "Swimming in Champagne" (Heatherly, Carpenter) - 4:26
9. "Wrong Five O'Clock" (Heatherly, Carpenter) - 2:36
10. "Freedom Chain" (Heatherly, Carpenter, Moore) - 3:58
11. "She's So Hot" (Heatherly, Carpenter, Ochs) - 6:17

Eric Heatherly's band

• Richard E. Carpenter - drums
• Jonathan Hamby - keyboards
• Eric Heatherly - lead vocals, electric guitar
• Jim Roller - bass guitar

Additional musicians

• Randy McCormick - keyboards
• Gary Prim - piano
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• John D. Willis - acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

References

• (2000) Album notes for Swimming in Champagne by Eric Heatherly [CD liner notes]. Mercury Records (088 170 124-2).

• Allmusic (see infobox)