Solo Flights is the title of a recording by 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...

. Side one of this album features Atkins' experiment with the "Octabass Guitar" wherein he replaced the two lower strings (the E and A strings) with heavier gauges in order to drop an octave and create a fuller sound.

This album was re-issued on CD for the first time in Japan only on April 22, 2009

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Richard S. Ginell wrote of the album "All told, this is one of Atkins' more pleasing collections from that era."

Side one

1. "Drive In" (Rich) 2:15
2. "Three Little Words" (Burt Kalmar, Harry Ruby) 2:35
3. "Autumn Leaves
   Autumn Leaves (song)
   "Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les Feuilles mortes" with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit...
   
   " (Joseph Kosma
   Joseph Kosma
   Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian-French composer, of Jewish background.-Biography:Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Akos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another relative was the conductor Georg...
   
   , Jacques Prévert
   Jacques Prévert
   Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
   
   , Johnny Mercer
   Johnny Mercer
   John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
   
   ) 3:25
4. "Chet's Tune" (Cohen) 2:18
5. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
   Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
   "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" is a song written by Joe Zawinul in 1966 for Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and his album Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club. The song is the title track of the album and became a surprise hit, reaching #11 on the Billboard charts in Feb. 1967...
   
   " (Joe Zawinul
   Joe Zawinul
   Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...
   
   ) 2:12
6. "Cheek to Cheek
   Cheek to Cheek
   "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat . Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000....
   
   " (Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin
   Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
   
   ) 3:10

Side two

1. "Cindy Oh Cindy" (Robert Barron, Burt Long) 2:25
2. "When You Wish Upon a Star
   When You Wish upon a Star
   "When You Wish upon a Star" is a song written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Walt Disney's 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio. The original version of the song was sung by Cliff Edwards in the character of Jiminy Cricket, and is heard over the opening credits and again in the final scene of the...
   
   " (Ned Washington
   Ned Washington
   Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
   
   , Leigh Harline
   Leigh Harline
   Leigh Adrian Harline was a film composer.-Career:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he worked for various radio stations before joining the Walt Disney studios in 1932 as arranger and scorer...
   
   ) 2:46
3. "Music to Watch Girls By" (Sid Ramin, Tony Velona) 2:30
4. "Choro da Saudade" (Agustín Barrios
   Agustín Barrios
   Agustín Pío Barrios , an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born in the department of Misiones, Paraguay and died in San Salvador, El Salvador...
   
   ) 2:37
5. "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" (Milton Kellem) 2:05
6. "Georgy Girl
   Georgy Girl (song)
   "Georgy Girl", written by Tom Springfield and Jim Dale , is the title song performed by The Seekers for the the film of the same name. Across late 1966 and early 1967, the song became a #1 Australian hit and a #3 UK hit...
   
   " (Jim Dale
   Jim Dale
   Jim Dale, MBE is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing...
   
   , Tom Springfield
   Tom Springfield
   Tom Springfield is the brother of Dusty Springfield and an important figure in the 1960s folk and pop music scene...
   
   ) 2:45