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]

Chet Atkins Picks the Best
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedRCA "Nashville Sound" Studios, Nashville, TN
GenreCountry, pop
LabelRCA Victor LSP-3818 (Stereo)
ProducerBob Ferguson, Chet Atkins
Chet Atkins chronology
Chet
(1967)
Chet Atkins Picks the Best
(1967)
Class Guitar
(1967)

Track listing

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Side one

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  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

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  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

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  • Chet Atkins – guitar

References

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  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.