Galloping Guitar: The Early Years is a multi-disc box-set retrospective recording by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 guitarist Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins , known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.Atkins's picking style, inspired by Merle...

, released in 1993 on the Bear Family label.

History

This large boxed set (four CDs, 116 songs) focuses on Atkin’s earliest recordings from 1940 to 1954. Early in his career, Atkins was signed and marketed mainly as a vocalist who played guitar. The majority of this set includes Chet’s vocal releases as well as guest vocalists. There are a number of instrumentals featured.

The track list is more extensive than Guitar Legend: The RCA Years

Guitar Legend: The RCA Years

Guitar Legend: The RCA Years is a two-disc compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins. The 50 tracks included here focus on his first recordings in 1947 to the 1977 release Nashville Guitar Quartet.- History :...

which covers much of the same material while adding four previously unavailable songs. There are many early Atkins originals and also a large sampling of hard to find songs Atkins co-wrote with Boudleaux Bryant

Felice and Boudleaux Bryant

Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team best known for songs such as "Rocky Top," "Love Hurts" and numerous Everly Brothers hits, including "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Bye Bye Love".-Beginnings:Boudleaux was born Diadorius...

. The biographical essay was written by country music historian Rich Kienzle, known for his expertise on the subject of country guitar.

In 2004, Bear Family released another box set of 214 tracks titled Mr. Guitar: The Complete Recordings 1955-1960.

CD 1

1. "Guitar Blues" (Atkins) – 2:50
2. "Brown Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" (Wally Fowler, Curley Kinsey) – 2:49
3. "Ain'tcha Tired of Makin' Me Blue" (Jenny Carson
   Jenny Lou Carson
   Jenny Lou Carson, , born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit...
   
   ) – 2:45
4. "I'm Gonna Get Tight" (Jerry Irby) – 2:55
5. "Canned Heat" (Atkins) – 2:35
6. "Standing Room Only" (Cy Coben, Charles Grean) – 2:54
7. "Don't Hand Me That Line" (Maurice Kregal, Dallas Turner) – 2:37
8. "Bug Dance" (Atkins) – 2:57
9. "(I Know My Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way" (Don Canton, R. Shepard) – 2:27
10. "The Nashville Jump" (Atkins, Tennis) – 2:32
11. "My Guitar Is My Sweetheart" (Alfio Bargnesi, David Rhodes) – 2:40
12. "I'm Pickin' the Blues" (Atkins, Atkins) – 2:50
13. "Gone, Gone, Gone" (Atkins) – 2:40
14. "Barnyard Shuffle" (Atkins) – 2:52
15. "Save Your Money" (Atkins, Atkins) – 2:34
16. "(I May Be Color Blind But) I Know When I'm Blue" (Atkins) – 2:33
17. "I've Been Working on the Guitar" (Traditional) – 2:30
18. "Dizzy Strings" (Atkins) – 2:45
19. "Money, Marbles and Chalk" (Garner "Pop" Eckler) – 2:54
20. "Wednesday Night Waltz" (Spencer Williams) – 2:32
21. "Guitar Waltz" (Zeke Clements
    Zeke Clements
    Zeke Clements was an American country musician often dressed in a Western outfit. He was known as "The Dixie Yodeler."-Biography:...
    
    ) – 3:04
22. "Tellin' My Troubles to My Old Guitar" (Don Weston) – 2:46
23. "Dance of the Golden Rod" (Merle Travis
    Merle Travis
    Merle Robert Travis was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the life and exploitation of coal miners. Among his many well-known songs are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues" and "Dark as a Dungeon"...
    
    ) – 2:41
24. "Galloping on the Guitar" (Atkins) – 2:29
25. "Barber Shop Rag" (Atkins) – 2:50
26. "Centipede Boogie" (Atkins) – 2:38

CD 2

1. "Under the Hickory Nut Tree" (Carter, Carter, Cash) – 2:58
2. "I Was Bitten by the Same Bug Twice" (Carter) – 2:31
3. "One More Chance" (Rogers, Taylor) – 2:49
4. "The Old Buck Dance" (Atkins) – 2:27
5. "Boogie Man Boogie" (Atkins) – 2:49
6. "Main Street Breakdown" (Atkins) – 2:18
7. "Confusin'" (Innis) – 2:14
8. "Music in My Heart" (Carter) – 2:17
9. "Indian Love Call
   Indian Love Call
   "Indian Love Call" is a song from Rose-Marie, a 1924 operetta-style Broadway musical with music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, and book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II...
   
   " (Rudolf Friml
   Rudolf Friml
   Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
   
   , Oscar Hammerstein
   Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
   
   , Otto Harbach
   Otto Harbach
   Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
   
   ) – 2:39
10. "Birth of the Blues
    The Birth of the Blues
    "The Birth of the Blues" is a popular song.The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1926, and recorded by Cab Calloway in 1943 or 1944...
    
    " (Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...
    
    , Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
    
    ) – 2:33
11. "Mountain Melody" (Atkins) – 2:10
12. "You're Always Brand New" (Hamblen) – 2:39
13. "My Crazy Heart" (Atkins, Carter) – 2:41
14. "Hybrid Corn" (Atkins) – 2:15
15. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller
    Fats Waller
    Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
    
    ) – 2:37
16. "One Man Boogie [Take H]" (Atkins) – 2:40
17. "Crazy Rhythm
    Crazy Rhythm
    "Crazy Rhythm" is a thirty-two-bar swing show tune written in 1928 by Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, and Roger Wolfe Kahn for the Broadway musical Here's Howe. It has since become a jazz standard, inspiring at least 15 jazz albums named Crazy Rhythm, often with the song itself included...
    
     [instrumental]" (Caesar, Kahn, Meyer) – 2:25
18. "Crazy Rhythm [Vocal Version]" (Caesar, Kahn, Meyer) – 2:23
19. "Rustic Dance" (Unknown) – 2:06
20. "Rainbow" (Bryan, Wenrich) – 2:38
21. "In the Mood
    In the Mood
    "In the Mood" is a big band era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. Joe Garland and Andy Razaf arranged "In the Mood" in 1937-1939 using a previously existing main theme composed by Glenn Miller before the start of the 1930s...
    
    " (Garland, Razaf) – 2:29
22. "Spanish Fandango" (Traditional) – 2:40
23. "Midnight" (Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:53 (Performed by:Atkins, Beasley Singers)
24. "Good-Bye Blues" (Fields, Johnson, McHugh) – 2:29 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
25. "Your Mean Little Heart" (Bryant) – 2:33 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
26. "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:05 (Performed by: Atkins, Beasley Singers)
27. "Blue Gypsy" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:19
28. "Third Man Theme" (Anton Karas
    Anton Karas
    Anton Karas was a Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man.-Early life:...
    
    ) – 2:26
29. "One Man Boogie [Take D]" (Atkins) – 2:38

CD 3

1. "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy
   W. C. Handy
   William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
   
   ) – 2:17
2. "Nobody's Sweetheart" (Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn
   Gus Kahn
   Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
   
   , Billy Meyers, E. Schoebel) – 2:16
3. "Lover, Come Back to Me
   Lover, Come Back to Me
   "Lover, Come Back to Me" is a popular song. The music was written by Sigmund Romberg with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II for the Broadway show The New Moon, where the song was introduced by Evelyn Herbert and Robert Halliday...
   
   " (Oscar Hammerstein
   Oscar Hammerstein II
   Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
   
   , Sigmund Romberg
   Sigmund Romberg
   Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
   
   ) – 2:26
4. "Stephen Foster
   Stephen Foster
   Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
   
    Medley" (Traditional) – 2:26
5. "Hangover Blues" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:36
6. "Imagination" (Atkins) – 2:13
7. "Black Mountain Rag" (Traditional) – 2:18
8. "Guitar Polka" (Unknown) – 2:06 (Performed by: Atkins, Rosalie Allen
   Rosalie Allen
   Rosalie Allen was born Julie Marlene Bedra on June 27, 1924, in Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and died September 24, 2003. Allen grew up the daughter of a Polish immigrant chiropractor in a large, impoverished Pennsylvania family...
   
   )
9. "Dream Train" (Unknown) – 2:13 (Performed by: Atkins, Rosalie Allen)
10. "Meet Mister Callaghan" (Spear) – 2:42
11. "Chinatown, My Chinatown
    Chinatown, My Chinatown
    "Chinatown, My Chinatown" is a popular song written by William Jerome and Jean Schwartz in 1910.Jerome and Schwartz incorporated Chinese musical forms into Western music for the melody...
    
    " (Jerome, Schwartz) – 2:01
12. "High Rockin' Swing" (Avants, Tennant) – 2:20
13. "Pig Leaf Rag" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:31
14. "Oh by Jingo!
    Oh By Jingo!
    "Oh By Jingo!" is a 1919 novelty song by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown.The song was featured in the Broadway show "Linger Longer Letty", and became one of the biggest Tin Pan Alley hits of the post-World War I era....
    
    " (Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...
    
    , Albert Von Tilzer
    Albert Von Tilzer
    Albert Von Tilzer was an American songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"....
    
    ) – 2:14
15. "Hello Ma Baby" (Joseph Howard, Ida Emerson) – 2:09
16. "The Bells of St. Mary's" (Adams, Furber) – 2:15
17. "Country Gentleman" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:15
18. "The Memphis Blues
    The Memphis Blues
    "The Memphis Blues" is a song described by its composer, W.C. Handy, as a "Southern Rag." It was self-published by Handy in September, 1912 and has been recorded by many artists over the years.-"Mr. Crump":...
    
    " (W. C. Handy
    W. C. Handy
    William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
    
    , George Norton) – 2:11
19. "Alice Blue Gown" (Joseph McCarthy
    Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
    Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
    
    , Harry Tierney
    Harry Tierney
    Harry Austin Tierney was a successful American composer of musical theatre, best known for long-running hits such as Irene , Broadway's longest-running show of the era , Kid Boots and Rio Rita , one of the first musicals to be turned into a talking picture .Born...
    
    ) – 2:06
20. "12th Street Rag
    Twelfth Street Rag
    "Twelfth Street Rag" was composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. It is one of the most famous and best-selling rags of the ragtime era. It has been recorded by many artists, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Lester Young. Bowman worked as a pianist in some of the bordellos of Kansas City...
    
    " (Bowman) – 2:22
21. "Peeping Tom" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:22
22. "Three O'Clock in the Morning" (Robledo, Terriss) – 2:19
23. "Georgia Camp Meeting" (Traditional) – 2:14
24. "City Slicker" (Atkins) – 2:23
25. "Dill Pickle Rag" (Traditional) – 2:25
26. "Rubber Doll Rag" (Landress) – 2:15
27. "Beautiful Ohio [Version 1]" (Earl, MacDonald) – 2:17
28. "Kentucky Derby" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:03
29. "Wildwood Flower
    Wildwood Flower
    "Wildwood Flower" is an American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family. However, the song predates them. The original title was "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets"...
    
    " (Carter) – 2:13
30. "Guitars on Parade" (Atkins) – 2:22
31. "Simple Simon" (Atkins) – 2:11
32. "Rubber Doll Rag [alternate take]" (Landress) – 2:24

CD 4

1. "Get Up and Go" (McCarthy) – 2:54
2. "Pagan Love Song" (Brown, Freed) – 2:07
3. "Beautiful Ohio [Version 2]" (Earl, MacDonald) – 2:09
4. "Downhill Drag" (Atkins, Bryant) – 2:23
5. "Avalon
   Avalon (Al Jolson song)
   "Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose. It was introduced by Jolson and interpolated in the musicals Sinbad and Bombo. Jolson's recording rose to number two on the charts in 1921. The song was possibly written by Rose, but Jolson's popularity as a...
   
   " (Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson
   Al Jolson
   Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
   
   , Vincent Rose
   Vincent Rose
   Vincent Rose was a musician and band leader.Vincent Rose has one of the longest histories as a band leader. He achieved much popularity with his Montmartre Orchestra in the 1920s, and recorded with the group for RCA...
   
   ) – 2:20
6. "Sunrise Serenade
   Sunrise Serenade
   "Sunrise Serenade" is a jazz song written by Frankie Carle with lyrics by Jack Lawrence. It was first recorded in 1939 by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Carle on piano as Decca 2321. It soon became Carle's signature piece. Glenn Miller released a famous recording of it a few months...
   
   " (Brown, Carle) – 2:45
7. "San Antonio Rose
   New San Antonio Rose
   "San Antonio Rose"/"New San Antonio Rose" was the signature song of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. "San Antonio Rose" was an instrumental song written by Bob Wills, who first recorded it with the Playboys in 1938. Band members added lyrics and it was retitled "New San Antonio Rose"...
   
   " (Bob Wills
   Bob Wills
   James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
   
   ) – 2:29
8. "Set a Spell" (Atkins, Innis) – 2:27 (Performed by: Atkins, Red Kirk)
9. "Mister Misery [version]" (Atkins, Innis) – 2:29 (Performed by: Atkins, Louis Innis)
10. "Get Up and Go" (McCarthy) – 2:53 (Performed by: Atkins, Red Kirk)
11. "South
    South (composition)
    "South" is a jazz composition by Thamon Hayes and Bennie Moten. It was introduced by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra in 1924 and recorded again in 1928, when it became a national hit...
    
    " (Ray Charles, T. Hayes, Bennie Moten) – 2:49
12. "Alabama Jubilee" (George L. Cobb
    George L. Cobb
    George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
    
    , Jack Yellen
    Jack Yellen
    Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
    
    ) – 2:36
13. "Corrine, Corrina" (Chatmon
    Bo Carter
    Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon was an American early blues musician. He was a member of the Mississippi Sheiks in concerts, and on a few of their recordings...
    
    , Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...
    
    , J. Mayo Williams
    J. Mayo Williams
    Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams was a pioneering African-American producer of recorded blues music. Ink Williams earned his nickname by his ability to get the signatures of talented African-American musicians on recording contracts...
    
    ) – 2:20
14. "(Back Home Again in) Indiana
    Back Home Again in Indiana
    " Indiana" is a song composed by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley, first published in January of 1917. While it is not the official state song of the U.S...
    
    " (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald
    Ballard MacDonald
    Ballard MacDonald was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.Born in Portland, Oregon, among his credits are:Beautiful Ohio, Rose of Washington Square, Second Hand Rose, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Back Home Again in Indiana, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Play That Barbershop Chord, Clap Hands, Here Comes...
    
    ) – 3:22
15. "Red Wing" (Mills) – 2:27
16. "Frankie and Johnnie" (Traditional) – 2:35
17. "A Gay Ranchero" (J. J. Espinosa, Francia Luban) – 2:34 (Performed by: Tuvinian Singers)
18. "Ballin' the Jack
    Ballin' the Jack
    "Ballin' the Jack" is a popular song written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." The song and dance were performed in For Me and My Gal, the 1942 movie starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.-Lyrics and...
    
    " (Burris, Smith) – 2:58
19. "Honeysuckle Rose
    Honeysuckle Rose (song)
    "Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1928 song composed by Fats Waller, whose lyrics were written by Andy Razaf. Fats Waller's 1934 recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999....
    
    " (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller
    Fats Waller
    Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
    
    ) – 2:42
20. "Darktown Strutters' Ball
    Darktown Strutters' Ball
    "Darktown Strutters' Ball" is a popular song by Shelton Brooks, published in 1917. The song has been recorded many times and is considered a popular and jazz standard....
    
    " (Brooks) – 2:01 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow
    Hank Snow
    Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
    
    )
21. "The Old Spinning Wheel" (Hill) – 2:27 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
22. "Silver Bell" (Madden, Wenrich) – 2:17 ( Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
23. "Under the Double Eagle" (Josef Wagner
    Josef Wagner (composer)
    Josef Franz Wagner was an Austrian military bandmaster and composer. He is sometimes known by the sobriquet 'The Austrian March King'....
    
    ) – 2:35 (Performed by: Atkins, Hank Snow)
24. "Birth of the Blues
    The Birth of the Blues
    "The Birth of the Blues" is a popular song.The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1926, and recorded by Cab Calloway in 1943 or 1944...
    
    " (Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...
    
    , Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
    
    ) – 3:23
25. "Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)" (Brown, DeRose) – 2:43
26. "Caravan
    Caravan (song)
    "Caravan" is a jazz standard composed by Juan Tizol and first performed by Duke Ellington in 1937. Irving Mills wrote the lyrics, but he sometimes is not credited on the many instrumental versions. Its exotic sound interested exotica musicians; Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman both covered it. Woody...
    
    " (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
    
    , Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
    
    , Juan Tizol
    Juan Tizol
    Juan Tizol was a Puerto Rican trombonist and composer.He was born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Music was a large part of his life from an early age. His first instrument was the violin, but he soon switched to valve trombone, the instrument he would play throughout his career...
    
    ) – 3:28
27. "Ol' Man River
    Ol' Man River
    "Ol' Man River" is a song in the 1927 musical Show Boat that expresses the African American hardship and struggles of the time with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River; it is sung from the point-of-view of a dock worker on a showboat, and is the most famous song from the show...
    
    " (Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...
    
    , Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
    
    ) – 2:35
28. "Mister Sandman
    Mr. Sandman
    "Mr. Sandman" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard which was published in 1954 and first recorded in that year by The Chordettes. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr...
    
    " (Pat Ballard
    Pat Ballard
    Pat Ballard born Francis Drake Ballard was an American songwriter.He composed "Mr. Sandman" and " I Get So Lonely".-References:...
    
    ) – 2:17
29. "New Spanish Two Step
    New Spanish Two Step
    "New Spanish Two Step" is a Western swing standard based on a traditional fiddle tune,"Spanish Two Step," which was one of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys signature songs. Wills and his vocalist, Tommy Duncan, added lyrics to reflect the title:-Bibliography:...
    
    " (Tommy Duncan
    Tommy Duncan
    Thomas Elmer Duncan , better known as Tommy Duncan, was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys...
    
    , Bob Wills
    Bob Wills
    James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
    
    ) – 2:09

Personnel

• Chet Atkins - guitar, vocals
• James “Jimmy” Atkins - guitar
• George Barnes
  George Barnes (musician)
  George Barnes was a world-renowned swing jazz guitarist, who claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years. George Barnes made the first recording of an electric guitar in 1938 in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy.-Biography:George Barnes was born in...
  
   - guitar
• Harold Bradley
  Harold Bradley
  Harold Bradley is a pop guitarist and an American country guitarist.Harold played banjo as a child but switched to guitar on the advice of his elder brother, Owen Bradley. Owen arranged for Harold to tour with Ernest Tubb while Harold was still in high school. After graduation, Harold joined the...
  
   - guitar
• Jerry Byrd
  Jerry Byrd
  Gerald Lester "Jerry" Byrd was an American musician who played Lap steel guitar in country and Hawaiian music.-Career:...
  
   - lap steel guitar
• Bob Moore
  Bob Moore
  Bob Loyce Moore is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist who was a member of the legendary Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 60s.-Biography:...
  
   - bass
• Buddy Harman
  Buddy Harman
  Buddy Harman was an American session musician.-Career:Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he played drums on over 18,000 sessions for artists such as Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Roger Miller,...
  
   - drums
• Hank Snow
  Hank Snow
  Clarence Eugene "Hank" Snow was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Anita Carter
  Anita Carter
  Ina Anita Carter , the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played stand-up bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters...
  
   - bass, vocals
• Rosalie Allen - vocals
• Frank Carroll - bass
• Al Chernet - guitar
• Charles Grean - bass
• Ray Edenton - guitar
• John Gordy - piano
• Marty Gold - piano, organ
• Marvin Hughes - piano, organ, celeste
• Dale Potter - fiddle
• Ernie Newton - bass
• Donna Wilson - vocals
• Coleen Wilson - vocals
• Jack Shook - guitar, vocals
• Donald Slayman - fiddle
• Harold Siegel - bass
• Roy Lanham - guitar
• Phil Kraus - bass
• Dutch McMillin - clarinet
• Anita Kerr
  Anita Kerr
  Anita Jean Grilli , known profesioanlly as Anita Kerr, is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer. She recorded and performed successfully with her vocal harmony groups in Nashville, Los Angeles, and Europe.-Nashville:Kerr was born in Memphis, Tennessee...
  
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• Louis Innis - guitar