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Drinking Champagne

"Drinking Champagne"
Single by Cal Smith
from the album Drinking Champagne
B-side "Honky Tonk Blues"
Released September 1968
Format 7" single
Genre Country
Length 2:40
Label Kapp
Songwriter(s) Bill Mack
Producer(s) Paul Cohen
Cal Smith singles chronology
"Jacksonville"
(1968)
"Drinking Champagne"
(1968)
"Empty Arms"
(1969)
"Jacksonville"
(1968)
"Drinking Champagne"
(1968)
"Empty Arms"
(1969)
"Drinking Champagne"
Single by George Strait
from the album Livin' It Up
B-side "We're Supposed to Do That Now and Then"
Released July 20, 1990
Recorded February 12, 1990
Genre Country
Length 3:35
Label MCA 79070
Songwriter(s) Bill Mack
Producer(s) Jimmy Bowen
George Strait
George Strait singles chronology
"Love Without End, Amen"
(1990)
"Drinking Champagne"
(1990)
"I've Come to Expect It from You"
(1990)
"Love Without End, Amen"
(1990)
"Drinking Champagne"
(1990)
"I've Come to Expect It from You"
(1990)

"Drinking Champagne" is a song written by Bill Mack. He released the first version of the song on Pike Records in the mid-sixties. The song grabbed nationwide attention when the version by Cal Smith reached #35 on the country music charts in 1968.

The tune also was a local hit in the late sixties by Hawaii's Myra English.

Jerry Lee Lewis released a version of the song on his 1973 album, Live at the International.

It was covered in 1990 by George Strait, whose version was the second single from his album Livin' It Up. The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in October 1990.

Other recordings: Bill Mack 1967, Billy Walker 1968, Faron Young 1969, Ray Price 1969, Jim Ed Brown 1973, Don Gibson 1973, Mickey Gilley 1975, Dean Martin 1983, and Willie Nelson 2010.


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