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 number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and number 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 numbers 46 and 32 on the country charts.

Swimming in Champagne
Studio album by Eric Heatherly
Released	April 18, 2000
Genre	Country
Label	Mercury Nashville
Producer	Keith Stegall
Eric Heatherly chronology
Swimming in Champagne (2000) The Lower East Side of Life (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Country Standard Time	link

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 Willis – acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	17
U.S. Billboard 200	157
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	6
Canadian RPM Country Albums	6

References

• Swimming in Champagne (CD liner notes). Eric Heatherly. Mercury Records. 2000. 088 170 124-2.CS1 maint: others (link)