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Drinking Champagne

"Drinking Champagne" is a song written by Bill Mack. He released the first version of the song on Pike Records in the mid-sixties.[2] The song grabbed nationwide attention when the version by Cal Smith reached #35 on the country music charts in 1968.[1]

"Drinking Champagne"

"Honky Tonk Blues"[1]

September 1968

Country

2:40

Kapp

Bill Mack

Paul Cohen

"We're Supposed to Do That Now and Then"

July 20, 1990

February 12, 1990

Country

3:35

MCA 79070

Bill Mack

Jimmy Bowen
George Strait

The tune also was a local hit in the late sixties by Hawaii's Myra English.[3]


Jerry Lee Lewis released a version of the song on his 1973 album, Live at the International.[4]


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.[5]

Bill Mack 1967,

Billy Walker 1968,

Faron Young 1969,

Ray Price 1969

Jimmy Dallas (e.g. Keith Kissee) 1972

Jim Ed Brown 1973

Don Gibson 1973

Mickey Gilley 1975,

Dean Martin 1983

Willie Nelson 2010