The Best of Chet Atkins is a compilation 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 1964.

History

The original LP

LP album

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 release included 12 tracks which has been increased on the 1980 reissue to include 4 additional songs: "Teensville", "Boo Boo Stick Beat", "One Mint Julep", and "Yakety Axe". Apart from those titles, the track listing is the same as the original LP.

The collection is notable in that it is his first "Best of..." release but does not include some of his highest charting singles up to that time.

The mono tracks were treated with "phoney stereo

Duophonic

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" in the original stereo version.

This title has been discontinued. All the songs are available on other compilation packages and Chet Atkins retrospectives. There have been many CD releases of various Atkins' selections that are titled "The Best of Chet Atkins".

Track listing

1. "Teensville (Wayne Cogswell)
2. "Boo Boo Stick Beat" (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,...
   
   , John D. Loudermilk
   John D. Loudermilk
   John D. Loudermilk is an American singer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Durham, North Carolina, Loudermilk grew up in a family who were members of the Salvation Army faith and was influenced by the church singing. His cousins Ira and Charlie Loudermilk were known professionally as the Louvin...
   
   )
3. "One Mint Julep
   One Mint Julep
   "One Mint Julep" is a rhythm and blues song written by Rudy Toombs that became a hit for The Clovers. It was recorded by Atlantic Records in New York City on December 19, 1951 and released in March of 1952. It was one of the first "drinking songs" to become a hit and one of the first to feature a...
   
   " (Rudy Toombs
   Rudy Toombs
   Rudolph "Rudy" Toombs , born in Monroe, Louisiana, was an American black songwriter who wrote "Teardrops from My Eyes", Ruth Brown's first number one R&B successful song...
   
   )
4. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Maltby, Fats Waller
   Fats Waller
   Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
   
   )
5. "Peanut Vendor
   The Peanut Vendor
   The Peanut Vendor is a Cuban song based on a street-seller's cry, and known as a pregón. It is possibly the most famous piece of music created by a Cuban musician...
   
   " (Moisés Simmons)
6. "Django's Castle" (Django Reinhardt
   Django Reinhardt
   Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
   
   )
7. "Blue Ocean Echo" (Chet Atkins, 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...
   
   )
8. "Yankee Doodle Dixie" (Atkins)
9. "Swedish Rhapsody" (Hugo Alfvén
   Hugo Alfvén
   was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
   
   )
10. "Vanessa" (Wayne)
11. "Trambone" (Atkins)
12. "Malaguena
    Malagueña
    Originally the sixth movement of the Suite Andalucia by Ernesto Lecuona, who also provided it with Spanish lyrics, the song "Malagueña" has since become a popular, jazz, marching band, and drum corps standard and has been provided with lyrics in several languages.-Notable vocal performances:A...
    
    " (Ernesto Lecuona
    Ernesto Lecuona
    Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality....
    
    )
13. "Meet Mister Callaghan" (Eric Spear
    Eric Spear
    Eric Spear was an English composer of film music. He was born in Croydon and died Southampton.Spear is best known for composing the original theme tune for the UK's longest-running television soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he was paid £6.The cornet player Ronnie Hunt found the recording...
    
    )
14. "Main Street Breakdown" (Atkins)
15. "Country Gentleman" (Chet Atkins, Boudleaux Bryant)
16. "Yakety Axe" (Boots Randolph
    Boots Randolph
    Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit, "Yakety Sax"...
    
    , Rich)