"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.