Swimming in Champagne

Swimming in Champagne
Studio album by
Eric Heatherly
ReleasedApril 18, 2000 (2000-04-18)
Genre
LabelMercury Records[3]
ProducerKeith Stegall
Eric Heatherly chronology
Swimming in Champagne
(2000) 		The Lower East Side of Life
(2005)
Singles from Swimming in Champagne
  1. "Flowers on the Wall"
    Released: February 26, 2000
  2. "Swimming in Champagne"
    Released: September 16, 2000
  3. "Wrong Five O'Clock"
    Released: November 4, 2000
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Calgary Herald[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[5]
USA Today[6]

Swimming in Champagne is the debut studio album by American singer Eric Heatherly, released in 2000.[7]

The album contains 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, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second and third singles were the title track and "Wrong Five O'Clock", which respectively reached numbers 46 and 32 on the country chart. The album peaked at number 157 on the Billboard 200.[8]

Production

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The album was produced by Keith Stegall.[9] Heatherly cowrote every song aside from the Statler Brothers cover.[10]

Critical reception

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Country Standard Time wrote that "the barroom anthems are tempered by the beautiful title ballad and the first single, a reworking of the Statler Brothers classic, 'Flowers On The Wall', that is different enough to succeed in the face of the original."[11] The Morning Call thought that "trafficking in typical rock-country hybrids, this freshly minted singer-songwriter pens tunes that tell a story, not unlike, say, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty or Johnny Cash."[2]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Someone Else's Cadillac"Eric Heatherly, Cris Moore, Ed Hill4:12
2."I Just Break 'Em""Heatherly, Tim Schumacher3:59
3."Didn't Mean a Thing"Heatherly, Christopher Ward5:01
4."One Night"Heatherly, Michael Hunter Ochs4:06
5."Why Don'tcha"Heatherly, Richard E. Carpenter, Ochs4:03
6."Flowers on the Wall"Lew DeWitt3:29
7."Let Me"Heatherly, John Sieger3:57
8."Swimming in Champagne"Heatherly, Carpenter4:26
9."Wrong Five O'Clock"Heatherly, Carpenter2:36
10."Freedom Chain"Heatherly, Carpenter, Moore3:58
11."She's So Hot"Heatherly, Carpenter, Ochs6:17

Eric Heatherly's band

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Additional musicians

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Chart performance

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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

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  1. ^ a b "Swimming in Champagne - Eric Heatherly | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ a b Printz, Larry (5 Aug 2000). "ERIC HEATHERLY". The Morning Call. p. A38.
  3. ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Eric Heatherly". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Cristiano, Nick (1 June 2000). "CD Reviews". Calgary Herald. p. HL12.
  5. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. p. 215.
  6. ^ Mansfield, Brian (18 Apr 2000). "Eric Heatherly, Swimming in Champagne". USA Today. p. 4D.
  7. ^ "Eric Heatherly | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  8. ^ "Eric Heatherly". Billboard.
  9. ^ Flippo, Chet (Mar 4, 2000). "Retro Heatherly debuts on Mercury". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 10. p. 50.
  10. ^ Orazi, Deborah (23 June 2000). "Eric Heatherly, superstar in the making". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Ticket. p. 6.
  11. ^ "Eric Heatherly - Swimming In Champagne". www.countrystandardtime.com.
  • Swimming in Champagne (CD liner notes). Eric Heatherly. Mercury Records. 2000. 088 170 124-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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