Solid Gold 69 is the title of a recording by American

United States

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 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 1969.

The liner notes were written by Donovan

Donovan

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.

Reception

The album was a moderate commercial success, entereing the US Pop Album charts on December 13, 1969. It stayed on the chart for 7 weeks and peaked at #150.

At the Grammy Awards of 1970

Grammy Awards of 1970

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, Solid Gold 69 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

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.

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "Only completists who must hear everything need search for this."

Side one

1. "Both Sides Now
   Both Sides Now (song)
   "Both Sides, Now" is a single by Joni Mitchell. Her recording first appeared on the album Clouds, released in 1969. She re-recorded the song in a jazz style for the album of the same name, released in 2000....
   
   " (Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell
   Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
   
   )
2. "Son of a Preacher Man
   Son of a Preacher Man
   "Son of a Preacher Man" is a song recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 and featured on the album, Dusty in Memphis. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. The rights to cover "Son of a Preacher Man" were originally offered to Aretha Franklin, who turned it down...
   
   " (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
3. "My Way
   My Way (song)
   "My Way" is a song popularized by Frank Sinatra. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibault. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the...
   
   " (Paul Anka
   Paul Anka
   Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
   
   )
4. "Blackbird
   Blackbird (song)
   "Blackbird" is a Beatles song from the double-disc album The Beatles . Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney, but credited to Lennon–McCartney.-Origins:...
   
   " (Lennon/McCartney
   Lennon/McCartney
   The Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history...
   
   )
5. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (Burt Bacharach
   Burt Bacharach
   Burt F. Bacharach is an American pianist, composer and music producer. He is known for his popular hit songs and compositions from the mid-1950s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David. Many of their hits were produced specifically for, and performed by, Dionne Warwick...
   
   , Hal David
   Hal David
   Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
   
   )
6. "So What's New?" (Lee, Pisano)

Side two

1. "Folsom Prison Blues
   Folsom Prison Blues
   "Folsom Prison Blues" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk genres, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash would continue to use for the rest of his career...
   
   " (Johnny Cash
   Johnny Cash
   John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...
   
   )
2. "Jean
   Jean Brodie
   Jean Brodie is a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; and in the play and film of the same name — both by Jay Presson Allen — which were based on the novel, but radically depart from it in the interest of theatre and poetic licence.Miss...
   
   "
3. "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
   Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
   Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name.The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design; it was also...
   
   "
4. "Hey Jude
   Hey Jude
   "Hey Jude" is a song by the English rock band The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The ballad evolved from "Hey Jules", a song widely accepted as being written to comfort John Lennon's son, Julian, during his parents' divorce—although this explanation is not...
   
   " (Lennon/McCartney)
5. "Aquarius
   Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
   "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" is a medley of two songs written for the 1967 musical Hair by James Rado & Gerome Ragni , and Galt MacDermot , released as a single by The 5th Dimension. The song peaked at number one for six weeks on the U.S...
   
   " (Galt MacDermot
   Galt MacDermot
   Galt MacDermot is a Canadian composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre. He won a Grammy Award for the song African Waltz in 1960. His most successful musicals have been Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona...
   
   , James Rado, Gerome Ragni
   Gerome Ragni
   Gerome Bernard Ragni was an American actor, singer and songwriter, best known as the co-author of the groundbreaking 1960s Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical.-Early life:...
   
   )

Production notes

• Produced by Bob Ferguson
• Cover Photo by Howard Cooper
• Liner Photo by Bill Grine
• Sculptor: Marvin Thompson