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Chet Atkins Picks the Best
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedRCA "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
Genre Country, pop
Label RCA Victor LSP-3818 (Stereo)
Producer Bob Ferguson, Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet
(1967)
Chet Atkins Picks the Best
(1967)
Class Guitar
(1967)

Chet Atkins Picks the Best is the thirty-second studio album by guitarist Chet Atkins. At the Grammy Awards of 1968, Chet Atkins Picks the Best won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. [1] [2]

Track listing

Side one

  1. " You'll Never Walk Alone" ( Rogers, Hammerstein)
  2. "Lovely Weather" (Lima)
  3. " Insensatez (How Insensitive)" ( Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  4. " Colonel Bogey" (Kenneth J. Alford)
  5. "Nuages" ( Django Reinhardt)
  6. " Anna (El Negro Zumbón)" (R. Valtro, F. Giordano)

Side two

  1. " Battle Hymn of the Republic" ( Julia Ward Howe)
  2. "All (Theme from the Motion Picture Run for Your Wife)"
  3. " El Paso" ( Marty Robbins)
  4. "Tears" ( Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli)
  5. "I Wish I Knew" ( Wayne Moss)
  6. "Ay, Ay, Ay"

Personnel

  • Chet Atkins – guitar

References

  1. ^ "10th Annual GRAMMY Awards". The Recording Academy. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
  2. ^ Schipper, Henry (1992). Broken record : the inside story of the Grammy awards. Carol Publishing Group. p. 174. ISBN  1-55972-104-9.